CaRItas College of Nursing

1. CaRItas College of Nursing

2. PHILOSOPHY • Multi-faceted, dynamic profession • Art~ healing and caring • Science~ medicine and technology • Vocation~call to service

3. Leader Educator Healer Environ- ment Patient Human Needs Health Growth Advocate Health Promoter Caregiver

4. ORGANIZING FRAMEWORK • Watson’s Theory of Human Caring(2007): “attempt to bring meaning and focus to nursing as an emerging discipline and distinct health profession with its own unique values, knowledge and practices, with its own ethic and mission to society.”

5. Major Concepts: • Nursing • Patient • Health Patterns • Transpersonal Caring • Human Needs and Growth

6. NURSING • Subconcepts: • Healer • Educator • Health Promoter • Patient Advocate • Leader

7. PATIENT • Individual • Family • Community • Populations

8. HEALTH PATTERNS • Health Perception and Management • Altered Health Patterns and Adaptation • Complex Health Patterns and Adaptation • Synthesis of Health Patterns and Management

9. TRANSPERSONAL CARING • Spirituality • Human Becoming • Healing Possibilities • Subjective Meaning of Another

10. HUMAN NEEDS/GROWTH • Basic Needs • Human Caring Relationships • Spiritual Environment

11. COURSE CURRICULUM • FALL SEMESTER • Level 1 • Computing and Informatics for Nurses • Fundamentals of Nursing Concepts I • Introduction to Nursing Process • SPRING SEMESTER • Level 1 • Fundamentals of Nursing Concepts II • Health Perception and Patterns

12. Level 2 • Altered Patterns and Adaptation • Pharmacology I • Physical Assessment • Level 2 • Complex Patterns and Adaptation I* • Health across the Lifespan* • Pharmacology II

13. Level 3 • Adult Health* • Complex Patterns and Adaptation II* • Level 3 • Pathophysiology • Community Health*

14. Level 4 • Leader/Manager Roles* • Service Learning* • Level 4 • Gerentology • Synthesis of Health Patterns and Management*

15. Specialty Clinicals • Level 5 • Trends in Nursing* • Nursing Research I *Denotes clinical components with lecture • Level 5 • Senior Seminar* • Nursing Research II

16. Outcomes • Provide competent care to the individual, family, communities, and populations across the life span • Practice within the caring model by interacting with their patients in "human-to-human” transactions • Demonstrate professional behaviors with respect to all humans regardless of cultural diversity or socio-economic status

17. Practice individualized care based on patient values, clinical expertise and evidence. • Utilize technology and informatics to manage care and promote health, enhance communication and support collaboration with healthcare recipients and professionals. • Assume responsibility and accountability for understanding nursing as a life-long learning process and adhering to professional guidelines. • Analyze evidence-based research and apply findings to selected clinical situations.

18. Incorporate and refine leadership skills in professional nursing practice • Synthesize the nursing process in the delivery of care to individual, families, communities and populations • Foster an environment of interpersonal caring that results in the individual’s realization of intimate human becoming • Analyze the ontological state of their patients and provide transpersonal healthcare interventions.