Saint Joseph College (Division of Nursing)
Our undergraduate program prepares students for professional practice and graduate study. The specifically designed curriculum includes an array of theoretical and applicable courses, all of which develop the technical expertise and management/leadership skills needed to succeed in this multi-faceted profession. The Division of Nursing at Saint Joseph College provides several ways for a young woman to pursue her goal of becoming a baccalaureate prepared Registered Nurse (see the undergraduate program link in the drop-down menu).
The graduate program offers a variety of options for advanced practice and graduate study (see the graduate program link in the drop-down menu).
The Department of Nursing is nationally recognized and accredited by the National League for Nursing, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), and approved by the Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing. All programs in the Division of Nursing lead to either a baccalaureate or Master of Science degree.
MISSION
The Division of Nursing bases its professional education on a firm liberal arts foundation. The goal is to educate students in the art and science of nursing. This mission promotes the growth of the whole person in a caring environment and fosters strong ethical values, intellectual curiosity, personal integrity and a sense of responsibility to the health and well being of society.
PHILOSOPHY
The philosophical beliefs of the nursing program are derived from the writings of Florence Nightingale, Virginia Knowlden and Barbara Carper and are embodied in the conceptual model that is the basis for the curriculum. The history of nursing is parallel to and intertwined with women’s history and women’s values. As society has recently recognized the contribution of women, so, too, it is recognizing the art and science of nursing as being socially relevant for its potential to foster health and well being in a caring context.
Nursing is the interpersonal communication of caring in an environmental context. The two irreducible aspects of this caring are content (nursing knowledge) and relationship (interpersonal communication), which occur simultaneously. These aspects of care establish what is essential and necessary for healing and health to occur.
Nursing as a professional discipline, with caring at its core, requires knowledge of empirics, aesthetics, ethics and self knowledge. Caring in nursing is based on theoretical formulations, creative alternative solutions, and interpersonal communication. Nursing requires understanding the self and the capacity to take action based on knowledge and moral judgments.
Nightingale described observation, data collection, and analysis as necessary to improve health. She viewed nursing as a new profession which would work to answer many theoretical and practical questions that remained unexamined in the nineteenth century. Modern empiricism continues to develop theoretical and research models necessary for professional practice.
Empirical knowledge is descriptive. The aesthetics, or art of nursing, is expressive and includes perceptions and empathy. Perception gathers together particulars and specifics into an experienced whole. Empathy is the ability to vicariously participate in another person’s experiences. The nursing knowledge gained through empathy and perception is expressed in the design of many alternative nursing solutions to health problems.
Caring in nursing requires knowledge of ethics. This knowledge enables the nurse to make a moral commitment to a person’s rights of autonomy, veracity and privacy. Nursing action is based then on a moral code which respects human life and dignity.
Caring in nursing is an interpersonal process which requires an understanding of the personal self. It is only through mature understanding of the self that the nurse can perceive and interpret the subjective experiences and values of the person, family and community. This personal knowledge frees people from their biases and enables them to accept ambiguities and differences in others.
Understanding and knowing the four patterns of empirics, aesthetics, ethics, and personal knowledge is fundamental because these patterns are interrelated. Caring is, therefore, based on knowledge of empirical facts, subjectivity and creativity, critical self-evaluation, and moral conduct. Through knowledge of the four patterns and caring, the nurse is able “to put the patient in the best possible environment to promote, preserve or restore health and to prevent or cure disease”
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
The Division of Nursing at Saint Joseph College provides several ways for a young woman to pursue her goal of becoming a baccalaureate prepared Registered Nurse.
The Women's College offers a traditional approach to baccalaureate study.
The accelerated second degree program offers a streamlined curriculum designed for women who have earned a non-nursing baccalaureate degree.
There are two programs specifically designed to meet the needs of the Registered Nurse.
School name: Saint Joseph College (Division of Nursing)
Address: 1678 Asylum Avenue
Zip & city: CT 06117-2791 West Hartford
Phone: 860.231.5258
Web: http://www.sjc.edu/content.cfm/pageid/3447
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