Southwestern Oklahoma State University (School of Nursing)

Southwestern Oklahoma State University, an Oklahoma institution of higher education, was established by an act of the Oklahoma territorial legislature in 1901 as the Southwestern Normal School. Since that time, the institution has evolved to a regional university offering degrees in many areas of study including the health related areas of pharmacy, medical technology, medical records administration and nursing. The SWOSU School of Nursing was established in 1976 under the Department of Biological Sciences. The program was the first rural baccalaureate nursing program in Oklahoma. The School of Nursing admitted its first student to the upper School clinical component of the nursing major during the Fall semester, 1977. The program is state approved and nationally accredited. NLNAC 61 Broadway, 33rd Floor New York, NY 10006 MISSION STATEMENT The mission of the School of Nursing is to provide the people of Oklahoma, specifically southwest Oklahoma, an opportunity for Baccalaureate education which prepares the nurse graduate as a beginning professional practitioner in a variety of clinical settings and career advancement for Registered Nurses. This is achieved with the following purposes: 1. To prepare a practitioner for beginning positions in professional nursing. 2. To facilitate career mobility for the registered nurse seeking a Baccalaureate in nursing. 3. To foster and support professional nursing in western Oklahoma. 4. To provide preparation for graduate study in nursing. 5. To facilitate scientific inquiry through faculty and student research. 6. To provide for continuous evaluation and nursing practice needs in western Oklahoma PHILOSOPHY The School of Nursing faculty expresses in this statement of philosophy their collective beliefs about Man, Environment, Health, Nursing, Learning, the Learner, and Baccalaureate Nursing Education. We believe that man is a biopsychosocial, spiritual being in constant interaction with his environment. Individually and collectively, man has needs and goals which are determinants of his choice of actions. We view man in a holistic way, as more than the sum of his parts, and recognize his complexity and his uniqueness in perception, experience, and actions. Because man is capable of learning, he has an inherent capacity for change. We believe that man has basic rights which include individuality, dignity, health, opportunities for learning and the right to make decisions about his own health care. We believe that man exists in an ever-changing environment. As biopsychosocial, spiritual beings, man possesses adaptive mechanisms through which he can initiate change or respond to change in his environment. The quality of the interaction of man with his environment affects his development throughout the life span and his ability to meet needs and attain goals, thereby affecting the well-being of individuals and social units. In order to share resources and promote adaptation, man forms societies with the expectation that social systems will be developed which provide for the protection, education, health, and socialization of the individual. We believe that health is a dynamic state of being which spans life’s continuum from birth to death. The health continuum includes physical, psychological, spiritual, and social components that collectively determine adaptive responses to internal and external stimuli. Each individual possesses strengths and limitations which affect his position on the continuum. Since each individual is unique in his perception of experience, it is the individual who defines his state of health. Just as man has the right to health and health care, he also has the responsibility to be actively involved in his care and decisions about his care and to participate in the process of promoting, restoring, and maintaining wellness. Health care should be provided to the extent desired by the consumer (individual, family, or community). Health care is a collaborative effort of interdependent professions and consumer to reach identified goals of wellness. The consumer engaging the services of a professional health care provider assumes the role of client.

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School name: Southwestern Oklahoma State University (School of Nursing)
Address: 100 Campus Drive
Zip & city: OK 73096 Weatherford
Phone: (580) 774-3261
Web: http://www.swosu.edu/nursing/
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