Seattle Pacific University (School of Health Sciences)

MISSION STATEMENT

The SHS mission is to partner with the community, to develop graduates who engage the culture, change the world, and:
• Serve all people with the highest level of professional care;
• Demonstrate competence in a diverse and changing environment;
• Act with wisdom, character, and caring;
• Demonstrate leadership in all aspects of Nursing; and
• Promote optimum health of body, mind, and spirit.

PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT

The philosophy of the faculty of the School of Health Sciences reflects the ideals of the community of Christian scholars, servants and leaders described in the Seattle Pacific University Mission statement. The faculty’s philosophy of Nursing includes our beliefs about the client, the environment, health and the profession of Nursing and Nursing education.

Individuals are integrated beings with physiological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual components, all of which are affected by developmental changes. They are created in the image of God, and have the capacities for self-determination, love, and the reflection of God’s goodness and grace. As God’s creation, each person is unique, while sharing the characteristics and needs of all others. Individuals need support, guidance, and self-expression in order to experience growth, healing, and wholeness.

Individuals and their environments are part of a larger community. Adaptation is necessary to attain and maintain health in a diverse and changing environment. It is the client in the context of the cultural environment who is the focus of professional Nursing care. The School of Health Sciences is committed to helping facilitate students to become leaders and to serve in an increasingly diverse world.

Health is a dynamic process that reflects the state of wholeness and harmony with the environment. Wellness is a state of optimal health and functioning, while illness is a disrupted functional state. Wellness and illness are uniquely experienced by each person or group, according to their individual experiences and the behavioral expectations of the society in which they live. The needs of human beings include the attainment of an optimal state of health.

Every individual has the right to health care. Health care systems should work toward providing cost-effective and accessible services for wellness promotion and illness care. In order to promote health care that attends to persons’ needs, professional Nursing functions collaboratively with other professions and with clients, their families, and the community.

Professional Nursing is concerned with helping individuals, families, communities and groups in the process of adapting to their environment. Nurses assist by utilizing Nursing and related theories to promote optimal health or to support persons to a peaceful death. Professional Nursing is both a science and an art. The science of Nursing is based on research and theory from Nursing, the sciences, and the humanities. Nurses utilize critical thinking within the Nursing process. The art and science are reflected in professional activities such as patient advocacy, health education, innovative planning of care, the development of Nursing roles to meet changing societal health needs and commitment to lifelong learning.

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School of Health Sciences Courses

READINESS FOR RE-ENROLLMENT
This course is designed to prepare students to re-enroll in the nursing program one quarter before they re-enroll.

PROF NURSING CONCEPTS:RN
Designed specifically for registered nurses who are beginning a program of study for the baccalaureate degree in nursing. The course encourages self-directed study based on adult-learning concepts and facilitates adjustment to the education-human environment system experience in general and to the student role at SPU in particular. Professional nursing is the focus of the course, extending from historical and philosophical concepts to contemporary trends, and future possibilities for the professional nursing role. Emphasizes group work, elements of groups, group theory, and collaboration through group work.

FAMILY/COMMUNITY NURSING:RN
Analysis, application, and evaluation of community-health nursing processes at the levels of family, small groups, community, and at-risk populations. Identification of community health diagnoses as the basis for interventions to maintain and/or promote health, prevent disease, and enable self-care within and by a community. Offered off campus only.

PROFESSIONAL NURSING ROLE I
Introduction to the role of a professional nurse. Explores concepts such as nursing as a profession, elements of the professional nurse role, health care delivery systems, and settings, critical thinking, research, and ethics and values within a Christian context.

BASIC NURSING THEORY
An introduction to nursing, covering basic nursing science concepts and an introduction to nursing assessment. The nursing assessment focus is on data collection and nursing diagnosis. Emphasis is with adults in long-term and community setting.

BASIC NURSING PRACTICUM
Provides experiences in application of the nursing process. Primary and secondary levels of care introduced in a long-term care and community-based setting. Extra fee.

NURSING OF ADULTS I – THEORY
Concepts of health promotion, health protection, prevention, and managing human responses to physical and mental illness are explored. Pathophysiology, pharmacology, spirituality, and human-diversity issues are integrated. The nursing process is utilized with adults in the context of the family and community-based settings.

NURSING OF ADULTS I-PRACTICUM
Provides experience in application of the nursing process, with adults and their families in acute-care settings and in community-based settings. Extra fee.

NURSING OF ADULTS II – THEORY
Applies nursing process to more complex human responses in health and illness with adults. Emphasis continues to pathophysiology, pharmacology, physical and mental health, and illness issues of the individual in family and community-based settings.

NURSING OF ADULTS II - PRACTICUM
Provides experience in application of the nursing process with more complex human responses in health and illness contexts for application, including work with adults in selected acute-care and community-based settings.

CHLD-BEARG FAMLY HLTH NUR THRY
Applies the nursing process to the nursing care of the child-bearing family. Integrates concepts of health promotion, growth, and development, cultural diversity, spirituality, pharmacology, physiology, and pathophysiology.

PSYCHTRC-MENTL HLTH NUR THEORY
Applies the nursing process to the nursing care of clients with psychiatric disorders, chronic and persistent mental illness, and mental health issues for individuals and families across the lifespan. Integrates concepts of growth and development, cultural diversity, spirituality, pharmacology, physiology, and pathophysiology.

CHLD-BRG FAM&PSY HLTH NUR PRAC
Applies the nursing process to the nursing care of the child-bearing family, which provides students with opportunities to care for families during labor, delivery, and post partum. Also applies the nursing process to care for individuals and families who are dealing with acute and chronic mental illness. Extra fee.

CHLD-REARG&FAMLY HLTH NUR THRY
Applies the nursing process to the nursing care of the child-rearing family, with an integration of concepts of health promotion, growth, and development, cultural diversity, spirituality, pharmacology, and the pathophysiology of disease in acute and chronic illnesses.

COMMUNTY&FAMLY HEALTH NUR THRY
Applies the nursing process to nursing's role in community-health assessment and diagnosis, program planning, implementation, and evaluation. Health policy issues will be explored related to health promotion and disease prevention. Family health is studied in the context of a diverse community.

CHLD&FAM,COMMNTY HLTH NUR PRAC
Applies the nursing process to the nursing care of the child-rearing family providing students with opportunities to care for hospitalized children and their families. Also applies the nursing process to the nursing care of families across the lifespan in a variety of community settings and allows students to develop community-care skills through participation in community-health programs and by exploring health-policy issues.

PROFESSIONAL NURSING ROLE:RN
Theoretical investigation of leadership and organizational concepts and their application to the professional nursing role as leader within the health care system and the nursing profession. Focuses on health care delivery systems, effective leadership, team development, change, and health policy. Offered only off campus.

PROFESSIONAL NURSING ROLE II
Theoretical investigation of leadership and organizational concepts and their application to the professional nursing role within the health care team and in the delivery of health care to individuals, groups, and selected populations.

PROF NURSING SYNTHESIS INTERN
Focus is on synthesis of past educational experiences within a variety of acute-care and community settings. Interdisciplinary work, application of leadership skills, and working in partnerships with selected communities provide opportunities to demonstrate effective integration and synthesis of prior learning. Also offered off campus. Extra fee.

PROF NURSING SYNTHESIS THEORY
Focus is on the future of health care and nursing and on continued professional development. This is a capstone course that integrates all prior coursework including core curriculum concepts, and courses from the first two years of study are expected.

INDEPENDENT STUDY
Independent Study May be repeated for credit up to 10 credits.

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY MODELS:RN
Explores selected models of health care delivery in the United States with a primary focus on the professional nurse's role in negotiating and influencing these systems now and in the future. Looks at historical development; elements of the models; impact on health care consumers, providers and provider organizations; ethical issues; and roles and responsibilities for professional nurses, including skills needed; and anticipated future directions for health care delivery. Offered off campus only.

SELECTED TOPICS
Focuses on emerging and specialized topics in nursing.

LEADERSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY:RN
Designed as a transition course for those students who are R.N./A.D.N. with a B.S./B.A. in another field of study.

RESEARCH
Examines the research process, including critique of in-process and completed research. Gives opportunity for a systematic investigation of a health-related topic of student's choice demonstrating knowledge of research methodology. This course should be taken by students who are transitioning into the M.S.N. program, and did not have a research course in their undergraduate program.

NURSING RESEARCH
The examination of clinical practice for development of researchable problems. Gives opportunity for systematic investigation of a health-related topic of the student's choice. Also offered off campus.

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