UNIVERSITY MISSION
2003/2004 – 2007/2008

DEPARTMENT OF NURSING MISSION

… to provide a collaborative and interactive learning environment … committed to excellence in teaching, scholarship, service, and practice.

The outstanding faculty provides nursing education to undergraduate and graduate student seeking entry into professional nursing or advanced practice.

Graduates will have acquired knowledge, skills, competencies, and values essential to the practice of professional nursing.  Professional nurses make autonomous and collaborative judgments in a variety of healthcare situations and are accountable for their practice.

CSUB is a student-centered institution. The University assists other … institutions to prepare qualified students. It recruits its students from all racial and ethnic communities and maintains a university environment accessible to diverse students. It organizes its programs to permit students to accomplish their educational goals. It offers its students a myriad of learning opportunities, outside as well as in the classroom. It prepares its students to be productively engaged in a diverse and changing society.

In recognition of health needs of a multicultural society, professional nurses address healthcare issues and needs of their community of interest.

Teaching/learning practice provides the student with opportunities to care for individuals, families and communities. The student comes to the learning situation with a specific cultural and ethnic background. Each student’s learning style, strengths, and goals have evolved out of past interactions between innate characteristics and the environment. With the assistance of the faculty, it is the student’s responsibility to strive to identify personal strengths and weaknesses and to achieve self- understanding, which enhances personal and professional growth.*

The Department of Nursing fosters mutual collaboration with the community of interest.

The effectiveness of the program is measured ultimately by the extent to which students: demonstrate achievement of the program’s terminal objectives; … and make significant contributions to the improvement of healthcare and the profession of nursing.*

1.  Value the inherent dignity and worth of the person as a unique humanistic being.

12.Functions within the novice nurse role (clinician, researcher, educator, leader) to meet the healthcare needs of a changing multicultural society.

3.  Utilize communication skills to achieve optimal outcomes with clients of nursing.

11.Collaborate with colleagues and others on the interdisciplinary health team to promote the health and well being of the clients of nursing.

7.  Assess continuing learning needs by engaging in self-directed education that is focused toward continued personal and professional growth.

 Summative Objective
Demonstrate the ability to successfully pass the RN licensure examination (NCLEX).

5.  Foster health maintenance, prevention of illness, and promotion of optimal health through principles of teaching and learning. 

12.Functions within the novice nurse role (clinician, researcher, educator, leader) to meet the healthcare needs of a changing multicultural society.

2.  Use theory and knowledge from the discipline of nursing, the physical and behavioral sciences, and the humanities in providing and evaluating nursing care.

8.  Demonstrates professional practice by accepting individual responsibility and accountability for nursing interventions and their outcomes within the context of the ethical, political, legal and economic environment.

9.  Critique and synthesize research for the applicability of its findings to nursing.

10.Utilize leadership and management skills through involvement with others in meeting health needs and nursing goals.