Program Goals
Curriculum Ends-In-View The following ends-in-view are achieved by the interaction among students, clients, faculty, and practice partners in a process of lifelong learning. At completion of the curriculum, graduates will:
1. Practice nursing within a framework of promoting health and healing through the integration of the art and science of nursing within a variety of contexts and with diverse client populations.
The curriculum focuses on people’s lived experiences of health and healing and the nursing approaches that accompany them. Practicing nursing within a framework of promoting health and healing includes participating with clients to increase their capacity to make informed health care choices. Learning within the curriculum focuses on relational caring practice utilizing a variety of ways of knowing that inform the art and science of nursing. Practicing nursing within this framework recognizes diverse perspectives and the importance of context in the construction of people’s health and health challenge experiences.
2. Be accountable practitioners providing care and making decisions based on relationships with others, nursing knowledge, and different ways of knowing.
The curriculum focuses on the importance of diverse ways of knowing for nursing practice. The core concept of inquiry incorporates empirical, practical, ethical, aesthetic, personal, political, and environmental knowledge that informs nursing knowledge and knowledge from other disciplines. The acquisition of nursing knowledge is central to this end-in-view, so nurses practice from a nursing perspective and can articulate this practice. It is understood that other ways of knowing are essential to nursing education and practice, and one way of knowing is not adequate or complete in isolation from other ways of knowing. Students come to know from a compilation of various ways of knowing including the experiences of their clients and contextual factors.
3. Influence the current reality and future of nursing practice and health care at the economic, political, social, environmental and professional levels by anticipating and responding to the changing needs of society.
The curriculum focuses on equity and social justice as part of understanding people’s experiences of health and healing. Analysis of power relations, exposure to critical theories, empirical sciences, and awareness of the varied experiences of change inform this end-in-view. The foundational perspectives and core concepts within the curriculum are central to how graduates influence change within nursing practice and health care. Graduates will practice collaboratively with other health care providers respecting the individual scopes of practice of each profession. Graduates will develop critical perspectives on the current realities and envision the future of the nursing profession and the future of health care globally.
4. Be critically reflective, independent and motivated practitioners with an inquiry approach to lifelong learning.
The curriculum focuses on inquiry, critical thinking, and the development of reflective practitioners (praxis). Inquiry and critical thinking, based on nursing theory and practice, is deliberate, intentional learning. As critically reflective practitioners, students will be self-evaluative in their nursing actions. Teaching/learning encounters within the curriculum foster critical thinking and the process of reflection and lifelong learning.
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9/13/2011 1:15:40 PM
