Vision
The MSOE School of Nursing aspires to excellence in educating nurses who impact society as expert practitioners, leaders, and scholars.Mission
The mission of the SON is to provide a program that educates its graduates to address the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health states. It does this through the integration of technology into nursing practice, with the goal of improving the health of society.The SON builds on these concepts to help graduates develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to provide safe, effective, high quality client-centered care as members of a complex, continually evolving health care system.
Philosophy
The philosophy of the MSOE School of Nursing is derived from the collective beliefs of the faculty about key concepts. These concepts include: person, environment, health, wellness, nursing, education, and technology. These concepts are at the heart of nursing education and practice, and guide the development of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed by nurses to provide safe, effective, high quality client-centered care as members of complex, continually evolving health care systems.
- Person refers to the recipients of nursing care; this can be an individual, family, or community of persons who are health care consumers. Person is a sentient, irreducible whole who is more than the sum of his or her parts. Persons are active participants in their health who continually grow and evolve over the course of a lifetime. In the remainder of this document, the word client is used to denote ’person’. Client always refers to the collective individual, family, and community.
- The environment is the dynamic context in which persons frame their lives. The interaction between person and environment shapes the health and experiences between environment and individuals, families and communities.
- Health is a continuum that extends from a state in which processes are highly compatible with life to a state in which processes are incompatible with life. At any given time, a person’s health can be seen as a state occurring along this continuum. A person’s health state is co-created and defined by persons as they interact with their environment.
- Wellness is a state uniquely defined by each person. Based on both personal and cultural factors, it is influenced by and involves integration with the person’s state of health, but it is not synonymous with health. It is the primary determinant of the extent that the person is motivated to interact with nursing.
- Nursing is a profession that is both an art and a science. The science of nursing is an organized body of knowledge arrived at by scientific research and logical analysis. The art of nursing is the creative use of the science of nursing for human betterment mediated by professional, personal, aesthetic, and ethical human care experiences. The curriculum of the SON is guided by American Nurses Association (ANA) standards, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials of Baccalaureate Nursing Education, the ANA Code of Ethics, and current evidence.
- Education is a process that involves the active exchange of knowledge. The faculty foster learning through faculty-student relationships. Students are active participants who reflect upon and assume accountability and responsibility for their learning. The student is empowered to build a foundation for life-long learning that incorporates flexibility, creativity, and the ability to function in a complex society. Students are socialized to the complex role of professional nursing through a variety of experiences in classroom, clinical, lab, and simulation activities.
- Technology is the use of health information technology, knowledge technology and biomedical technology to improve the quality and efficacy of client care. Technology is an important part of both nursing practice and the educational processes.