Minot State University (Department of Nursing)

MISSION & PHILOSOPHY A Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree is a four-year course of study and provides a broad background of liberal arts, sciences and general education as a minimum foundation for professional nursing. A graduate is prepared as a generalist practitioner in nursing and is qualified to take the licensure examination to become a registered nurse. Minot State University’s nursing program provides experiences in meeting human needs holistically along the health-illness continuum. MISSION STATEMENT The Minot State University Department of Nursing is an integral part of the parent institution and is dedicated to the pursuit of higher learning grounded in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The Department of Nursing shares the mission of Minot State University to advance knowledge, critical and creative thinking, and the vitality of community cultures. The mission of the institution is supported by beliefs, core values, and visions describing aspects of learning, teaching, campus life, research, and service. The mission of the Department of Nursing is to educate individuals for professional roles in nursing and for graduate education. DEPARTMENT OF NURSING PHILOSOPHY AND THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS The philosophy of the Department of Nursing faculty is anchored in the major constructs of the meta-paradigm of nursing. Those constructs are identified as person, environment, health and nursing. The Nursing Department faculty recognizes people are unique, complex, and evolving. Persons interact with a changing environment to maintain life and achieve purposes as individuals and members of a society. The person within the context of nursing is identified as a client. A client may be further defined as an individual, family, a group and/or community. People are dynamic, complex, adaptive, and self determined in achieving a meaningful existence. People utilize their cognitive, affective, and psychomotor capacities to achieve self-actualization. The environment is dynamic, complex, and multidimensional. The environment is further defined as the context, surroundings, settings, foci, or backgrounds within which individuals interact. Persons have a reciprocal relationship with ever changing internal and external environments. These environment systems interact in the ecological, socio-cultural, political, economic, spiritual, ethical and legal realms. Health is defined as a condition of the life cycle that is dynamic, adaptive, responsive to both internal and external stimuli, and influenced by the behaviors of the person. Health refers to the person’s state of well-being at the time nursing occurs. Health is personal and can range from high-level wellness to terminal illness. Nursing is defined as an application of scientific knowledge enhanced by artful practice in a socially responsible manner. Nurses provide leadership as members of interdisciplinary teams, provide client centered care to promote health, prevent disease, and restore and maintain client integrity throughout the life span. Nursing education is viewed as a process designed to facilitate learning. Students and faculty are active and responsible participants in learning. Nursing education at the baccalaureate level integrates content from the arts and humanities and social and physical sciences. The key curricular components emphasized within the curriculum are derived from the Department of Nursing’s mission and philosophy and include professionalism, research, holistic health, and globalization. Certain content within all courses are integrated with the key curricular components.

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School name: Minot State University (Department of Nursing)
Address: 500 University Ave West
Zip & city: ND 58707 Minot
Phone: 701-858-3101
Web: http://www.minotstateu.edu/nursing/
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