Carroll College - Nursing program
Carroll College offers a program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. Established in fall of 2002, the program has ongoing approval of the Wisconsin State Board of Nursing, is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the National League for Nursing. Carroll College is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association.
MISSION OF THE NURSING PROGRAM
The Carroll College nursing program builds on Carroll College's mission of providing a superior educational opportunity to our students, one grounded in the liberal arts tradition and focused on career preparation and lifelong learning. Nursing practice is built on nursing knowledge, theory, and research. Nursing practice derives knowledge from a wide array of other fields and disciplines, adapting and applying this knowledge as appropriate to professional practice. It is the mission of the Carroll College nursing program to prepare nurses for professional practice in a variety of settings, preparing them to take on the characteristics that will allow them to function in the generalist professional nursing role.
PHILOSOPHY OF THE NURSING PROGRAM
Nursing - Guided by professional standards and ethics, the nurse functions as a provider of care, designer, manager and coordinator of care and as a member of a profession. We believe that society needs nursing to advocate for wellness. We believe that to understand wellness requires that one know about illness. We believe that nurses in wellness settings, such as community centers, parish, and school sites, must understand the physiologic and psychosocial changes that occur with acute and chronic illness before it is possible for them to provide primary and secondary prevention strategies. Therefore, acute care experience is a necessary background for any practice setting. We believe in the model exemplified by the Henry Street settlement nurses. These nurses were educated in hospitals to become a social force in the community.
Person - Nursing views persons in society in the context of relationships with other persons, family groups and community; therefore each person is viewed as a holistic system affected by the world around and within. The person who is a student of nursing must be able, in social situations, to expound coherently on their nursing role in society, and explain how nursing is unique in its interaction with persons anywhere on the health continuum. That is, nurses can differentiate their personal role and contribution to health care from that of other health care disciplines such as physicians and other therapists.
Health - We believe health incorporates all levels of wellness and illness. Wellness is a state of integrity of mind, body and spirit. Illness is a lack of that integrity. Health, therefore, is meaningful to each individual in terms of the unique demands of the individual's sociocultural and natural environment. Persons who need nursing are at some point on the health continuum. Nursing must be able to recognize the point on the health continuum at which patients are found, and provide the care necessary to move the patient toward higher levels of health, or to allow a peaceful and dignified death. Environment - The environment or community of interest for this nursing program is internal as well as external, immediate as well as global. The program of nursing interacts and is interdependent with the immediate community, its health care agencies, resources and policies. The global environment interfaces with the nursing program in terms of the diversity of its students, faculty and health care recipients. Nursing has a responsibility to promote and maintain environmental integrity as a means to higher levels of health for individuals and populations. Nurses provide care to diverse populations across all environments. We expect our students to recognize diversity in all persons in all settings. Students must recognize that individual differences within a culture are as important as major environmental separation of culture, race and ethnicity.
Faculty – We believe that clinical experts should direct our students in clinical practice, and faculty with the terminal degree will direct the didactic pedagogy and supervise the clinical faculty. Therefore, the MSN advanced practice degree is considered appropriate for the clinical faculty role. The clinical nursing faculty, full-time and adjunct, are expected to role-model life-long learning and contribute to the students' career preparation while advancing the student in knowledge and application of a liberal education. We further expect all faculty members to model the skills expected of the students. Faculty are hired and evaluated, in part, on their ability to evidence critical thinking skills, communication skills and skill in therapeutic intervention. The clinical faculty are directed by faculty members who have the terminal degree and who are experientially qualified for the direction and evaluation of curriculum in the position they hold.
Curriculum - Our philosophy requires that the curriculum be responsive to the community of interest. To accomplish our mission, we consider it necessary to be flexible, to change quickly as society needs and technology change. The conceptual framework, developed by nursing faculty, organizes the curriculum in a logical progression over the length of the program. The overviews in each course syllabus will illustrate how the essential components of professional nursing education are used in that course to prepare students to take on the characteristics that will allow them to function in the professional nursing role. Course objectives demonstrate the achievement necessary for the student, at each level of the curriculum, to evidence competency as they progress.
Nursing education - Our philosophy, in preparing professional nurses at the generalist level, is to provide grounding in the liberal arts in addition to career preparation and to provide choices in selected specialty areas. The educational process must allow for diversity, curiosity, and difference of opinion, but must not allow for indifference or neglect of academic rigor. We expect nursing students to focus on and connect nursing to every general education or liberal studies course. However, it is in clinical practice that the student will demonstrate patterns of professional behaviors that follow the legal and ethical codes of nursing and promote the actual or potential well being of clients. The promotion of health and wellness is a focus of all nursing practice, but nurses, more than any other health care discipline, take care of the sick; therefore, acute care experience is a necessary background for any generalist practice setting and is a focus of generalist education. We believe nursing students are best served when they are educated in a variety of settings to provide care to diverse populations across all environments. The promotion of health and wellness, the prevention of injury and restoration of health are accomplished for a diversity of socio-economic, racial and ethnic populations in all the settings.
School name: Carroll College - Nursing program
Address: 2121 E. Newport Ave.
Zip & city: WI 52311 Waukesha
Phone: 262-650-4920
Web: http://webster.cc.edu/programs/nursing/
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