Nursing
About the Program
In Bethel’s Department of nursing, you’ll explore your unique calling to be a nurse in an amazing program accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. You’ll be prepared to pursue a career as a nurse in a variety of settings.
Mission statement
The mission of Bethel Nursing is to provide transformative academics in nursing education, leadership, practice, and scholarship that reflect the values of a Christ-centered community as we prepare nurses to serve, with excellence, a diverse and changing society.
Values
We value the perspectives of a Christian worldview that emphasize caring, service, integrity, the pursuit of excellence, and the inherent worth of all life.
We value the liberal arts as the scholarly foundation for nursing education and practice.
We value education that is evidence-based, relational, active, holistic, and promotes clinical judgement and lifelong learning.
We value nursing as a collaborative profession that fulfills multiple roles and requires a unique and expanding body of knowledge and skills to promote the health and safety of diverse individuals, families, communities, and systems.
We value nursing leadership that influences the quality of healthcare for all, respecting the uniqueness of individuals, with an emphasis on vulnerable and underserved populations.
Goals
To prepare nurses for practice in entry-level nursing positions with the foundation for success in advanced education.
To prepare nurses for lifelong learning with a foundation based on Christian values, the liberal arts, and sciences.
To prepare nurses to serve diverse communities with Christian values through excellence in leadership, professional practice, and scholarship.
Baccalaureate program outcomes
- Integrate nursing knowledge, the liberal arts, and a Christian worldview to fulfill nursing roles.
- Promote client health in a culturally relevant manner through collaborative processes.
- Provide competent care and meaningful comfort to clients who are healthy, ill, or dying.
- Use critical thinking, health care information technology, and evidence-based findings to make decisions that promote safety and quality and improve client health outcomes.
- Communicate through verbal, nonverbal, and technological means with individuals, families, and communities to achieve mutually determined health outcomes.
- Advocate to increase access to health care and to promote justice for underserved clients.
- Conduct self as a member of the nursing profession by integrating Christian values, professional standards, and ethical perspectives.
- Demonstrate collaborative leadership to enhance the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.