The mission of
faculty and the staff of the School of Nursing is to
prepare students for a career in professional
nursing that focuses on assisting patients/clients
to achieve health or health-related goals and to
transition from a disease oriented to a health
oriented system of healthcare. Faculty assist
students who acquire general knowledge from sciences
and arts and specific knowledge and skills from
nursing practice and theories and to assume nursing
leadership roles. These professional nursing roles
are practiced as a provider of care, teacher,
advocate, coordinator of care, and member of the
profession. Faculty articulate a philosophy of
nursing in which nurses provide healthcare for
culturally and ethnically diverse individuals,
groups, families and communities in hospitals, homes
and community based settings.
