BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN NURSING

MISSION STATEMENT
The fundamental purpose of the Martin Methodist College’s Division of Nursing is to prepare nurses at the baccalaureate level who are critical thinkers and lifelong learners by integrating learning, living, and faith in a collegiate environment of academic rigor, nurturance, and with a theoretical foundation based on Judeo-Christian principles and the liberal arts and sciences.

GOALS
The purposes of the proposed Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree program at Martin Methodist College are to provide nursing majors the opportunity to attain the knowledge, competencies, and attitudes of the entry level professional nurse by:

1. Developing an understanding of professional nursing practice, legal, ethical, and   social standards and the responsibility and accountability to clients, employers, the profession, society and self.
2. Acquiring knowledge and clinical practice experience necessary to assume leadership roles in the provision of nursing care.
3. Building a foundation for graduate study in relation to the research process and current and future nursing practice.
   Attaining approval of the State Board of Nursing and national accreditation for the baccalaureate nursing program.

1. Use the nursing process, core nursing knowledge and core nursing competencies to provide, design, and manage culturally competent, sensitive and cost effective nursing care to clients with diverse needs across the life span and in different settings to promote, maintain or restore health by integrating core nursing competencies. 
2. Collaborate with client systems, nurses, interdisciplinary healthcare providers, religious congregations, and community agencies to engage in illness prevention, health promotion, maintenance and restorative interventions.
3. Use entry-level nursing skills and cultivate the attitudes and skills necessary for critical thinking, information management, and assuming accountability for independent decisions.
4. Implement professional nursing values and legal, ethical, and social standards with responsibility and accountability to clients, employer, profession, society, and self.
5. Maintain an awareness of historical trends and the legal, social, economic, and political issues related to nursing and health care.
6. Engage in activities to promote respectful citizenship, Christian values, and the health and well being of culturally diverse clients.