Mission, Goals, and Outcomes
Mission Statement
The Department of Nursing at the University of Mary Washington prepares nurses to serve throughout the region in leadership, education, and advanced practice roles. We foster the integration of nursing practice, education, and scholarship to promote access to health care across the continuum of care.
Department of Nursing Goals
- Advance professional nursing practice by demonstrating clinical competence and fulfilling the roles of care provider, designer, manager, and coordinator of care.
- Lead the development and implementation of evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention strategies within the community and regional healthcare settings.
- Foster the integration of clinical practice and nursing scholarship to mentor future clinicians to pursue advanced education and professional development pathways
Department of Nursing Expected program outcomes
- Examine the concepts of professionalism and fundamental beliefs to nursing, which include the inherent values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, social justice, and ethics.
- Create intra- and interprofessional partnerships, characterized by teamwork, collaboration, and oral and written communication to deliver high-quality, safe patient care
- Evaluate healthcare policy and finance and regulatory practices to influence the allocation of health resources in order to reduce health disparities.
- Utilize the nursing process when practicing caring, competent, holistic, and patient-centered nursing care with individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations from diverse backgrounds in a variety of settings across the lifespan
- Evaluate nursing research to determine best practices and translate current evidence into professional nursing practice
- Formulate plans of care which promote health and prevent disease for individuals, families, groups, populations, and communities in complex situations
- Synthesize a liberal arts education, knowledge of nursing science, and critical thinking skills to support inter-professional partnerships which focus on health promotion and disease prevention.
- Compare and contrast leadership knowledge, skills, and attitudes to promoting safe, high-quality care with a focus on continued evaluation and improvement within a variety of health care settings
- Utilize information management knowledge and skills by employing technology and information systems to create safe patient care and enhanced decision-making in a variety of health care settings.