Mount Carmel College of Nursing

For more than a century, Mount Carmel College of Nursing has been dedicated to helping students realize the dream of a career in health care. Founded in 1903 by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Mount Carmel School of Nursing granted thousands of nursing diplomas before becoming Mount Carmel College of Nursing in 1990 with the introduction of a fully accredited Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program. In 2003, one hundred years after opening its doors, the College took yet another bold step forward, introducing a Master of Science program.

Today, Mount Carmel College of Nursing ranks among the largest baccalaureate nursing programs in Ohio. Our Dietetic Internship a nine-month certification program, are among the best available.

By emphasizing diversity, small class size, personal attention, and Judeo-Christian values, the College is experiencing record enrollment, attracting many of the country's finest nursing students, and achieving exceptional student retention and graduation rates.

It's been an evolutionary first century for the Mount Carmel College of Nursing, and the next one looks equally exciting.

MISSION STATEMENT

Mount Carmel College of Nursing, serving in the spirit of the Catholic tradition, offers excellent science-based educational programs in nursing and allied health in a caring environment.

CORE VALUES

• Academic Excellence
• Respect
• Compassion
• Social Responsibility

GOALS

• Offer educational opportunities for holistic development of outstanding health care professionals
• Respect diverse spiritual and cultural values
• Serve the community

EXPECTED OUTCOMES

• The graduates demonstrate competence for practice.
• The faculty demonstrates excellence in teaching, service, scholarship, and practice.
• The teaching-learning process occurs in an environment supportive of diversity.
• The faculty, students, and staff provide quality healthcare programs and services to communities.

PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING

The Mount Carmel College of Nursing provides educational programs in a Judeo-Christian environment which enhances the unique intellectual, moral, spiritual, and psychosocial development of the person. The faculty accepts responsibility to prepare professional nurses for theory based practice at the basic and advanced levels that reflects the values and standards of the profession.

Caring is integral to nursing, valuing the dignity and worth of persons, service to others, social justice, altruism, autonomy, and integrity. Nursing is the practice of caring behaviors founded upon the integration of general education and professional studies. Nursing involves the management of health care of individuals, families, communities, and populations. The nurse is a health care professional who enacts multifaceted roles to promote optimal health during all life experiences. Nurses work collaboratively with clients and multidisciplinary teams to design, provide, coordinate, and implement health care. They respond to the diverse and changing needs of society in the local community as well as the broader global community.

Nurses are both knowledgeable and active in political, economic, and regulatory processes that influence health care practices. Health involves the harmonious integration of all dimensions of the client; it is culturally defined, valued, and practiced. Health is a dynamic, lifelong, multidimensional process whether the client is an individual, family, community, or population. Changes in health status occur in response to the stressors and strengths of the internal and external environment. The nurse provides holistic caring interventions directed at assisting the client to promote health.

Baccalaureate nursing education provides the foundation for professional nursing practice. Through a collaborative and interactive process, the self-directed learner develops the skills of critical thinking, effective communication, holistic assessment, caregiving, and leadership for professional practice. Clinical practice, which is the essence of nursing, is augmented through nursing theory and research. Baccalaureate nursing education encourages lifelong inquiry for professional development.

Graduate nursing education provides the foundation for specialized roles in education and clinical practice. Research, theory for advanced practice, and strategies for validating and utilizing research findings are integral to graduate study.

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Courses

FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH ASSESSMENT IN CARING PRACTICES
This course introduces the student to the nursing process with an emphasis on holistic assessment across the lifespan and provides opportunities to implement the caring practices of nursing in a variety of settings. Therapeutic nursing interventions, including cultural, developmental, nutritional, psychosocial, psychomotor and spiritual are introduced.

FOUNDATIONS OF CARING HEALTH PRACTICES
This course presents holistic health interventions from a caring perspective. Client health teaching is implemented. Clinical practice, with a focus on health, is offered in a variety of settings.

PHARMACOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CARING HEALTH PRACTICES
This course focuses on basic concepts of pharmacotherapeutics related to major drug categories. Related nursing management and health teaching are included.

CARING PRACTICES FOR THE ADULT I
This course applies knowledge and the nursing process in caring for human responses of individuals and families with alterations in tissue perfusion, digestive function, cellular differentiation (proliferation) and defense mechanisms. Primary, secondary, and tertiary health activities are implemented in acute and community settings.

CARING HEALTH PRACTICES FOR THE ADULT II
This course applies knowledge and the nursing process in caring for human responses of individuals and families with alterations in hormonal regulation, regulatory function, motor sensory function, and skin function and integrity. Primary, secondary and tertiary health activities are implemented in acute and community settings.

CARING PRACTICES FOR THE DEVELOPING FAMILY
This course applies knowledge and the nursing process in caring for women and families’ reproductive health issues across the life span. Primary, secondary and tertiary health activities will occur in a variety of settings.

CARING PRACTICES FOR MENTAL HEALTH
This course applies knowledge and the nursing process in caring for individuals and families with mental health issues and alterations across the life span. Primary, secondary and tertiary health activities are implemented in acute and community settings.
NURSING SEMINARS
A variety of seminars are offered which focus on nursing or health topics that expand the breadth and depth of the study of health care beyond the required program of study. Students have the opportunity to develop greater knowledge and skill in the area of interest. Critical thinking, decision making, and self directed learning under gird these seminars.

NURSING RESEARCH
This course presents an overview of the research process and the major types of research. The course examines the elements of a research proposal and provides opportunities for students to critique research literature, focusing on the student's role as a consumer of research.

NURSING RESEARCH
This course focuses on research process, methodology, and utilization. Emphasis is on the nurse’s role as a consumer of research.

CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING
This course introduces the returning registered nurse student to the many dimensions of professional nursing. Issues germane to the practice of professional nursing including the dynamics of professional development, the knowledge bases of professional practice, the changing health care environment, and professional practice strategies will be covered in the course. Discussion and analysis of various theories and conceptual frameworks related to the practice of professional nursing will be undertaken. We will also discuss the philosophy and curriculum of the College of Nursing. All lecture, discussion, and student assignments are intended to stimulate critical thinking skills. Registered nurse students should leave the course with a thorough understanding of the concepts covered in the course and be able to apply those concepts not only in the remainder of the RNBSN curriculum, but also in nursing practice.

CARING PRACTICES IN ACUTE HEALTH ALTERATIONS
This course focuses on providing caring interventions with the person/family experiencing complex health alterations occurring across the lifespan. The course examines acute health alterations related to concepts of clinical forensics and its impact on the person/family, caregiver, and community. The impact of resource allocation, health promotion, and related medicolegal, ethical, and moral issues is discussed.

CARING PRACTICES WITHIN THE LEADERSHIP ROLE
This course focuses on providing caring interventions within the leadership role that is inherent in professional nursing. The course introduces nursing leadership and management concepts and theories related to change, group dynamics, conflict resolution, and organizational systems. It examines legal, political, economic, and ethical aspects of nursing. Clinical practice can be arranged in a variety of acute care and community health care settings.

CARING PRACTICES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
This course examines the concept of nursing care of the community and aggregates and explores epidemiology, health promotion, prevention, and environment and current community health issues. The course focuses on health, wellness, and strengths of aggregates and nursing interventions in the care of the community as client. Clinical experiences are selected that allow for application of these concepts in ways that are meaningful to the student.

CARING IN CHRONIC HEALTH ALTERATIONS
This course examines the impact of long term illness on the individual's lifestyle and family functioning. Clinical practice focuses on providing caring interventions with persons/families experiencing chronic health alterations.

CARING HEALTH PRACTICES FOR THE ADULT III
This course applies knowledge and the nursing process in caring for human responses of individuals, families, community and populations experiencing biological crisis in a variety of settings. It focuses on crisis intervention and use of advanced technologies.

CARING HEALTH PRACTICES FOR THE OLDER ADULT
This course applies knowledge and the nursing process in caring for the gerontological population in a variety of settings and focuses on issues related to the phenomenon of aging.

CARING PRACTICES FOR THE CHILD AND FAMILY
This course applies knowledge and the nursing process in caring for the pediatric population in a variety of settings with a focus on children’s health issues within the context of family dynamics.

CARING PRACTICES IN TRANSITION TO THE PROFESSIONAL ROLE
This course focuses on the practical application of integrated knowledge to the practice of professional nursing and provides opportunities for clinical experiences, which facilitate the transition to the professional role in a variety of settings.

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