PROGRAM MISSION as adopted by the Faculty of the Department of Nursing is to:

Provide an intellectual climate that fosters the development of critical thinking to prepare a graduate who is professional, caring, competent, and self-directed in providing therapeutic nursing interventions and demonstrates an interest in life-long learning.

Assist the student to achieve personal and professional goals regardless of cultural, racial, or ethnic background.

Program Goals/Outcomes

1. The graduate is a competent, self-directed, professional nurse who provides theory based, therapeutic nursing care that incorporates caring and critical thought processes.
2. The graduate possesses the basis for life long learning and for the pursuit of higher education.
3. The graduate achieves personal and professional goals.
4. The graduate is capable of leadership in caregiving, communicating, teaching, utilizing research, advocating, collaborating and managing diverse patients in a variety of health care settings.