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Augustana
College Department of Nursing
Vision
Statement
Mission Statement
Philosophy
Guiding Values
VISION STATEMENT: Preparing Nurses
for a Changing World
MISSION STATEMENT:
To prepare students to apply knowledge and Christian values
in the understanding and fostering of health, wholeness, and
human potential in a changing world.
PHILOSOPHY:
The purpose of Augustana College is to provide a Christian
liberal arts education for women and men. Within this framework,
the nursing curriculum serves to integrate liberal arts with
preparation for professional nursing, to provide a sense of
community, and to serve the region and the larger society.
Within this structure, the Department of Nursing philosophy,
program purposes and outcomes have been developed.
The faculty are committed to a liberal arts education, which
promotes both personal and professional growth. The focus
of the nursing curriculum is upon lived experiences of health
in a continuously changing world. The nursing curriculum is
grounded in nursing science as well as the biological and
social sciences and the humanities.
The faculty views nursing as an art and science. They embrace
the breadth and depth of the historical and theoretical perspectives
in nursing*, as they actively participate in ongoing scholarly
dialogue. Within this context, the following philosophy as
been developed to reflect the diversity they bring to nursing
education at Augustana College.
Persons are viewed as unique beings, with freedom to choose
within situations. Health is the way one lives his or her
life, reflecting values in the search for meaning and manifesting
pattern of the whole. Quality of life is the meaning one gives
lived experiences.
The human community and universe are interconnected. Past,
present and future are integral, as we live in relationship
with persons and all that surrounds us. Nursing is being,
knowing, and acting with compassion and caring in evolving
relationships. Nursing fosters the health, wholeness and human
potential of persons, families, groups and communities. Living
the art and science of nursing involves presence and honoring
the perspective of another.
Teaching-learning is a mutual process, requiring intentionality
and shared responsibility, fostering a spirit of inquiry.
The search for truth requires living in ambiguity, as values
and beliefs are challenged and scholarly endeavors explored.
GUIDING VALUES:
Teaching/learning from a liberal arts perspective includes:
* being aware of one's own ethical beliefs
* hearing the voice of others through relationship and presence
* embracing change/living with ambiguity
* applying a broad foundation of knowledge and skills from
the arts and sciences
Living in community embraces:
* respecting human diversity and unqiueness
* responding to health issues
* collaborating with others
* living in relationship
* valuing human freedom
* hearing the voices of community
* caring for creation
Cultivating excellence encompasses:
* nuturing potential
* challenging the intellect
* fostering creativity
* committing to continued personal and professional growth
Developing servant leadership entails:
* caring in the human health experience
* addressing the health concerns of persons and society
* practicing integrity
* committing to social justice
* advocating for health policies and structures that are responsive
to societal needs
Living faith in vocation involves:
* relating Christian faith to service
* searching for meaning
* responding with compassion to the human condition
* creating sacred space
NOTE: The Augustana College Nursing Program
is informed by the following nurse theorists: Leininger, Nightingale,
Peplau, Rogers, Newman, Parse, Watson.
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