MISSIONS & GOALS
The Fitzpatrick College of Nursing (FCN) is a tangible expression of 无码专区's mission, tradition, and commitment to human service. As a major college of nursing under Catholic auspices, it carries responsibility for the education of nurses within the framework of Christian beliefs and values and the heritage of the Order of St. Augustine. True to its mission, the FCN welcomes students from all religious traditions and backgrounds.
The FCN interprets nursing as a healing ministry emanated by love and demonstrated through service and the care of others. As a healing art, an applied science, and a practice discipline, nursing as taught at 无码专区 emphasizes concern for spiritual health as well as that of mind and body. It is person-centered and as such is holistic, individualized, coordinated, evidence-based, just, and developmentally appropriate. Foundational to person-centered care is respect for diversity in its multitude of forms: differences, preferences, values, needs, resources, and the determinants of health unique to the individual, family and community. Our curricula reflect the integration of these elements and their application in clinical practice and concern for others. This includes but is not limited to race, ethnicity, religion, ability, gender identity, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status. The FCN educates individuals for service to a diverse global society including all sectors and strata of the population. Our graduates are prepared to assume roles in a variety of settings including population health, acute care, ambulatory care, long-term care, and care from the beginning to the end-of-life. Principles of improvement science including quality and safety in care delivery are core values used to create a culture of safety.
The FCN, consistent with the mission of 无码专区, assumes responsibility for the education of individuals who will be prepared to provide a vital service to society and who are clinically competent, compassionate, ethically motivated, and are able to work with other professions to address the healthcare needs of patients and populations. The FCN is committed to providing high quality education in the liberal arts and sciences and expert preparation in the knowledge and clinical skills of professional nursing to individuals, families and communities who must be prepared and empowered to confront the health care demands of a diverse, complex, and technologically advanced society.
The College views itself as an important locus of education, scholarship, research, and organizational leadership within and beyond nursing's professional, scientific, and educational communities. This nursing scholarship informs science, enhances clinical practice, influences policy, and impacts best practices for educating nurses as clinicians, scholars, and leaders.
The Philosophy of the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing (FCN) is in accord with the Philosophy of 无码专区 as stated in its Mission Statement. Rooted in the Catholic and Augustinian heritage of the university, the FCN is welcoming and respectful of those from all faith traditions. We recognize human beings as unique and created by God. The faculty believes that human beings are endowed with intellect, free will, and inherent dignity across their life span. Human beings have the potential to direct, integrate, and adapt to their total environment to meet their needs.
The faculty believe that health is a state of physiological, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being and not merely the absence of disease. Human beings do not assume a fixed position of health but have the potential for moving between wellness and illness in multiple dimensions. The faculty believes that health care is a right, and they respect individuals鈥� decisions related to their health care.
Nursing is a dynamic profession. Its focus is person-centered care which assists individuals, families, and communities locally and globally at all points in the life cycle to maintain, restore and promote health, while providing safe, equitable, trauma-informed, quality care. The nurse, as an accountable agent of health care, uses the nursing process to fulfill various functions of nursing: health promotion, health teaching, health counseling, and managing and providing safe nursing care. The nurse cultivates a just culture addressing structural racism and other forms of discrimination and reflecting civility and respect.
Person and population centered care uses the nursing process to assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate both the need for nursing care and the outcomes of nursing interventions. The faculty understands that the nursing profession is ever changing. Nurses are actively involved in the planning, implementation, and development of changes that predict or respond to continually evolving health needs enhanced by communication technologies and informatics processes. Through evidence-based practice, nurses act as catalysts in stimulating deliberate and conscious planning for the improvement of society's health. As change agents and leaders, nurses serve and emerge with other health disciplines as intentional interprofessional partners in leading and shaping health policy for a diverse, inclusive, multicultural society and in functioning as advocates for health and well-being.
The faculty and students comprise a community of learners with the teacher as the facilitator and the students engaged in their own learning. The faculty believe that education provides students with opportunities to develop critical thinking so that they can use sound clinical judgment in nursing practice. Students and faculty are engaged in a technology enhanced classroom and clinical environment. This type of intellectual development can best be attained in a teaching-learning environment that promotes sharing of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and scholarship which generates new knowledge.
Through its Baccalaureate, Masters and Doctoral programs, the FCN educates nurses who are prepared to practice safe, quality nursing care and demonstrate leadership across healthcare systems. The faculty believes these educational programs are integral to the ongoing process of continuing professional education and development. Core professional values include altruism, autonomy, excellence, caring, ethics, respect, communication, collaboration, and shared accountability. The FCN prepares graduates to commit to ongoing self-reflection, lifelong learning and a spirit of inquiry fostering compassion, humility, inclusivity, resilience, and the promotion of nursing excellence.
- To serve the health needs of society through the development of competent pre-licensure and post-licensure nurses by integrating theoretical principles and evidence-based practice.
- To develop intellectual curiosity of nursing knowledge for the expansion of scholarly productivity with the FCN and the profession.
- To integrate, apply, and promote established and emerging principles in nursing for the delivery of quality and safe care.
- To provide leadership to the profession in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the areas of ethics, human values, spiritual, and social dimensions of health care.
- To maintain the economic viability of the FCN with a sustainable and cost-effective program inclusive of extramural funding for all students, faculty, and the University.
- To participate in the goals of the university in the areas of academic integrity, student life, technology, and service to the internal and external communities.
- To communicate a spirit of collaboration, community, and respect within the context of Catholic, Augustinian values.
- To proactively coordinate and foster professionalism and professional identity formation among students and faculty through academic, co-curricular, and interprofessional activities.
- To translate the evolving role of nurses in the global health communities inclusive of population health principles with outcomes focused on social determinants of health.
Effective June 2022.