Barry University (School of Nursing)
The School of Nursing provides an exciting educational experience for women and men interested in shaping the health care system of the new century. Nursing is a unique and valued human service, rich in scholarship, research, and political activism.
Barry University's School of Nursing offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs that prepare students to meet the challenges of the future with confidence, knowledge, and creativity.
ABOUT THE SCHOOL
The School of Nursing's undergraduate nursing program offers a BSN program option designed to prepare students to become beginning professional nurses, and a RN to BSN program option designed for diploma and associate degree RN's. Our MSN program positions graduates to assume leadership roles in nursing administration, nursing education, and as nurse practitioners. The Ph.D. program prepares students to be nurse scientists who, upon graduation, will assume leadership positions in research, education, and health care systems.
Our programs aim to fulfill the University mission of quality education, community service, a caring environment, and a religious dimension. Barry's thriving campus is culturally diverse and international in focus. Nursing students are encouraged to participate in campus life, make new friends, pursue new interests, and become an integral part of the University community.
The School of Nursing is located in the Wiegand Building on the Miami Shores campus.
HISTORY
Barry University was founded as Barry College in 1940. Because of its growth in size and diversity, Barry College became Barry University in 1981. Its four founders planned the institution as a Catholic college for young women of Florida. As community needs and social trends changed, the Board of Trustees officially declared Barry College co-educational in 1975.
Nursing students were first admitted in September 1953. Since then, options have been added to the undergraduate program to support licensed practical nurses and academically strong transfer students who want to earn a BSN. The Accelerated Option was added in 1983.
The RN to BSN Option began in 1978 in response to the expressed needs of the community and practicing registered nurses.
The MSN program began in 1983 with a specialization in Nursing Service Administration. The Nursing Education specialization was added in 1984. In 1986 the third specialization for the Primary Care Nurse Practitioner in Adult Health was added; it has since evolved into the Family Nurse Practitioner specialization. In 2003, the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner specialization was added. Today's nursing specializations reflect current needs and future trends in the organization and delivery of nursing care services. A certificate program is also available in School Nursing
The Ph.D. in Nursing Program admitted its first students in September 1996. It's multidisciplinary courses and rigorous curriculum have attracted interest from nurses throughout the U.S. and internationally.
The Barry University School of Nursing offers prospective and practicing nurses a quality education in a caring environment that values diversity, curiosity, and creativity. Our programs are dynamic, collaborative, and intellectually challenging. The registered nurse with a Barry University degree is prepared to practice in a changing health care system and exercise leadership in shaping the health care environment well into the new millennium.
PHILOSOPHY
This philosophy describes the beliefs of the faculty of Barry University School of Nursing about person, society, health, illness, and professional nursing. The philosophy evolves from the University mission and supports the purpose of the School of Nursing.
The faculty believes that all humans are unique beings who have intrinsic value endowed in them by their Creator. Humans manifest a mind-body-spirit unity which encourages creativity, harmony, and health. The essence of human unity is the individual’s culture, spiritual experience, environment, and changing life circumstances. We respect diversity, multiple realities, and individual choices of all persons. Through the process of professional caring, we place value on the life of all human beings within the context of family, community, and society.
Society is the dynamic and constructed setting within which all persons exist and interact. Nursing occurs in the framework of a global society. Professional nursing carries with it the social responsibility to shape and transform the environment, to improve health and healthcare disparities for all people. Within society, each defined community provides a unique, multidimensional context for learning.
The faculty believes that health is the balance of mind-body-spirit which is interpreted and expressed in individuals and groups. The experience of illness is an alteration in the harmony of the mind-body-spirit. Health and illness are not considered dichotomous experiences; both are human experiences occurring simultaneously. Understanding simultaneity is fundamental to the diagnosis and treatment of human experiences and responses.
Focusing in a holistic manner on patterns across the life span, professional nursing involves evidence based practices that are preventative, restorative, and promotive. The three major roles of professional nurses, provider of care, coordinator of care, and member of a profession, are differentiated at various academic levels. Evolving professional roles are acknowledged and fostered.
The knowledge base for professional nursing practice is derived from the liberal arts, nursing science, and related professional studies. Professional nursing education facilitates the socialization process, the development of values and professional behavior, and the social construction of policies which affect health at local, national, and international levels. The faculty believes that the baccalaureate degree in nursing is the entry level for professional nursing practice. Nursing education at the master’s level is the appropriate preparation for advanced nursing practice. Doctoral nursing education prepares nurses as clinicians, educators, leaders, researchers, scholars, and visionaries.
Nursing scholarship advances the knowledge base of the discipline by promoting inquiry, generating and utilizing research, and selecting theoretical knowledge that is compatible with our professional values and practices. Inquiry is paramount to competence in professional practice and life long learning. The unique focal area of our inquiry is multicultural health.
The curricula of the School of Nursing are dynamic and based on the belief that society and nursing are ever-changing. This attention to nursing’s influence on communities and society supports our focal area of multicultural health by providing opportunities for scholarship, research, teaching, and community service. The curricula promote and facilitate analytical reasoning, critical thinking, evidence based practice, and the ability to construct knowledge. Quality of life and the health care needs of individuals, families, and communities inform and reform the curricula as faculty and students engage in the scholarly search for meaning and understanding in professional nursing.
The philosophy of the School of Nursing articulates with the University mission through the major characteristics of quality education, religious dimension, community service, and a caring environment which celebrates the diversity of students, faculty, and community. The faculty of the School of Nursing embrace Barry University’s international dimension, respect for human dignity, Dominican spirit of scholarship and service and commitment to social responsibility and leadership.
School name: Barry University (School of Nursing)
Address: 11300 NE 2nd Avenue
Zip & city: FL 33161-6695 Miami Shores
Phone: 305-899-3800
Web: http://www.barry.edu/nursing/default.asp
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