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The School of Nursing is located in the Cason-Kennedy Nursing Building which was completed in August 1994. The building and its "state of the art" equipment was a gift from the Christy Houston Foundation of Rutherford County. It was designed by the nursing faculty for comfort, convenience and an educational atmosphere conducive to the study of the practice of nursing.
History |
The nursing program at MTSU began in 1966 as a two year associate degree program. A total of 799 students graduated from the associate degree program with the last graduating class in 1990. The present four year BSN program enrolled students in the first junior year nursing class in the Fall 1988. The first class of 23 students graduated in May, 1990. |
Mission |
The Middle Tennessee State University School of Nursing educates individuals to function as professional nurses competent to meet the health care needs of individuals and groups across the life span and to adapt to future trends in health care. |
Philosophy
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The philosophy of the baccalaureate nursing
program is based on a framework of beliefs held about persons, environment, health,
professional nursing nursing and education. Person. Each person is a unique, complex, bio-psycho-social-spiritual being, possessing inherent worth and dignity. People exist within a family or in other small groups, in a community and in a society. As an integral part of an open system, each person's behavior is characterized by unique responses to commonly occurring, multiple and complex interacting stimuli from both internal and external environments. Environment. Environment comprises the living and non-living universe in which the person exists. Environment affects the person's health status and the ability to optimize personal potential throughout the life cycle. Each person interacts with the environment and, as a result, continually grows and changes. Health. Health is a dynamic state which fluctuates over a continuum varying from optimal wellness to death. Health involves various parameters and levels of functional performance as defined by the individual, by society and by health care professionals. Professional Nursing. Nursing, a practice discipline, has evolved as the art and science of caring for people in response to their individual, family, community and societal health care requisites and deficits. The goals of nursing practice is to assist others to achieve optimal health through self-care. |
Goals/Outcomes |
1. Analyze social, emotional, physiological, and spiritual factors
in determining and meeting the health care requirements of individuals, families and
communities. 2. Use theoretical and empirical knowledge and skills drawn from nursing, the humanities and the natural, social and medical sciences as bases for formulating nursing practice decisions. 3. Use research processes and findings as a means for improving therapeutic nursing interventions. 4. Collaborate with consumers and other health professionals for the purpose of enhancing self care abilities. 5. Function as a change agent, client advocate, teacher, and leader in the delivery and management of nursing care. 6. Accept legal and ethical responsibility and accountability for nursing practice decisions and actions as well as for individual professional growth and growth of the profession. 7. Employ the nursing process as a method for providing holistic care that communicates responsiveness to the client's self-care requisites. 8. Exhibit psychomotor competence in nursing system operations. |
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Link to Self-study Report for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
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Link to Self Study Report for The National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission
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| School of Nursing Middle Tennessee State University Box 81, Murfreesboro, TN 37132 voice: 1.615.898.2437 fax: 1.615.898.5441 |
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