Mission of Craigmiles School of Nursing, Purposes of Craigmiles School of Nursing, and PN Program Outcomes
Mission
The Craigmiles School of Nursing offers programs that are rooted in the University Core Values: Biblical Worldview, Educational Relevance, Community Mindset, Transformational Leadership, and Generational Impact for effectively equipping nursing students and graduates for ministry and service within homes, workplace settings, church settings, within their profession, and within surrounding communities.
The Craigmiles School of Nursing offers programs that strive to achieve excellence in nursing education by maintaining high academic standards in a distinctively Christian environment. Such an environment encourages the highest development of the student intellectually, physically, socially, and spiritually.
Purposes
Craigmiles School of Nursing purpose are to:
- Implement Biblical based, services-focused nursing programs through in-seat, online, or blended-learning approaches to course design.
- Prepare graduates for entry-level beginning practical nursing (PN) and/or professional nursing (RN) equipped with the skills and abilities required of nurse generalists.
- Support graduates as they prepare for future ministry and service opportunities which they desire to pursue.
- Equip graduates for life-long learning, professional growth, and graduate studies
- Partner with the Hannibal-LaGrange academic community to contribute to the growth and on-going development of the University.
- Provide supportive nursing services within the surrounding local communities and around the world through service-learning opportunities.
Practical Nursing (PN) Program Outcomes
For the PN student, the following competencies are threaded – progressing from awareness, recognition, and beginning application (1 st year/Term 1), to application and performance (1 st year/Term 2). The competencies are guided by the curricular framework, the Missouri Scope of Practice for LPNs, and professional standards of practice for Licensed Practical Nurses.
Core Value: Educational Relevance
- Provide basic nursing care and ministry services promoting health and preventing disease.
- Address unmet healthcare needs, problems, obstacles, and challenges when providing basic nursing care and ministry services.
- Demonstrate proficiency in basic nursing knowledge, skills and abilities characteristic of a practical nurse.
Core Value: Transformational Leadership
- Using nursing standards as a basis for assuming practical nursing roles required in providing basic nursing care and ministry services.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team in providing basic nursing care and ministry services.
Core Value: Community Mindset
- Collaborate with other communities of interest such as local and extended church organizations, healthcare organizations, and community support agencies, to provide basic nursing care and ministry services.
Core Value: Generational Impact
- Provide basic patient-centered nursing care and ministry services to humankind: Individuals,
groups, families; the underserved, poor, and disadvantaged; Individuals across the lifespan; and diverse populations.
Core Value: Biblical Worldview
- Approach basic nursing care and ministry services from a biblically based, Christian worldview equipped to minister and serve as opportunities arise.
- Recognize individual and professional accountability to Christ, the public, the nursing profession, and healthcare employers for providing basic nursing care that is efficient, effective, equitable, patient-centered, timely, and safe.