Nursing is a specialized field that focuses on providing healthcare and care for individuals and communities. Nurses work to diagnose and treat patients, provide primary and emergency care, administer medications, perform medical and nursing procedures, and offer guidance and advice to patients and their families on health and disease prevention.
Nurses work in hospitals, healthcare centers, clinics, schools, and other healthcare institutions. They deal with a diverse range of patients, including children, adults, the elderly, people with disabilities, and those with mental health conditions.
Nursing requires various skills, such as medical and nursing knowledge, the ability to communicate and interact effectively with patients and their families, and the capacity to handle emergencies and make quick, appropriate decisions. Nursing is also considered a profession that demands the highest standards of ethics and professionalism.
Mission: To graduate competent nurses able to provide high quality of nursing care, research, and community services.
Objectives
- To meet the needs of the hospitals with highly qualified nursing in accordance with comprehensive quality standards.
- Integrate theory and research-based knowledge from the arts, humanities, and sciences to develop a foundation for nursing practice.
- Providing continuing education opportunities to keep abreast of developments and contribute to the advancement of the nursing profession.
- Encouraging scientific research that contributes to solving society’s problems.
- Stimulating and enhancing students’ creative thinking and life-long learning.
- Be effective communicators and able to work in collegial interprofessional relationships with a variety of partners.
- Provide care with respect for human dignity and uniqueness of the client, unrestricted by consideration of social, economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of the health problems.
- Demonstrate ethical, legal and professional accountability in the practice of nursing.
Graduate Attributes
Upon successful completion of an undergraduate nursing program, graduates will be able to
- Professional Disposition: Embody a professional disposition committed to excellence, equity and sustainability.
- Person Centered Care: Engage in person centered care that is appropriately sensitive to the needs of individuals, families and communities.
- Communication and Collaboration: Communicate and collaborate effectively and respectfully with diverse groups.
- Communication and Collaboration: Communicate and collaborate effectively and respectfully with diverse groups.
- Use and Translation: Inquire critically to assess a body of evidence to inform practice.
- Professional Competence: Competently apply knowledge and skills to ensure safe and effective nursing practice.
- Long Life learning: an approach to learning—whether in personal or professional contexts—that is continuous and self-motivated.
Certificate awarded
Bachelor’s degree in Nursing Science
Available Jobs
Registered Nurse
Program Intended Learning Outcomes (PILOs)
Knowledge and Understanding
- Recognize the knowledge from nursing science, other sciences and disciplines to make judgments relative to the practice of nursing that is based on research findings and evidence.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of nursing theory and management principles in providing nursing care to client across the lifespan, and in all healthcare settings
- Identify the acute and chronic illness, and its effects on the bio-psychosocial functioning of individuals, families, and groups.
- Synthesize theories and concepts from liberal education to build an understanding of the human experience into nursing practice
Cognitive/ Intellectual Skills
- Demonstrate skills in critical thinking, problem-solving and decision making in the use of the nursing process in a variety of healthcare settings.
- Value the ideal of lifelong learning to support excellence in nursing practice
- Utilize awareness, interest and contribute towards advancement of self and of the profession
- Implement holistic, evidenced-based, safe patient-centered care across the health illness continuum, across the lifespan, and in all healthcare settings
Practical and Professional Skills
- Practice as a professional nurse to facilitate human need fulfillment of individuals, families, groups, communities and populations across the lifespan in a variety of healthcare settings
- Apply concepts and skills of leadership, management, quality improvement and patient safety in the delivery of high-quality therapeutic nursing interventions for individuals, families, groups, communities
- Intervene therapeutically to promote, restore, and maintain the health of individuals, families, groups, and communities
- Provide health education to improve the health of the individuals, families, groups, and communities
General and Transferable Skills
- Communicate effectively with individuals and groups and members of the health team in order to promote effective interpersonal relationships and teamwork
- Demonstrate professional, ethical, moral, legal, and spiritual concepts into one’s practice within a global environment
- Conduct research to improve nursing and health services qualities by integrating theory into nursing practice
- Deliver compassionate, patient – centered, evidence – based care that respects patient and family
