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MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT NURSING PROGRAM

NURSING STUDENT HANDBOOK

I. PHILOSOPHY, VISION, MISSION

PHILOSPHY

The Maricopa Community College District Nursing Program is committed to the core values of caring, critical thinking, holism, nursing role development, and safe practice. These values focus on key stakeholders of health care: clients, colleagues, and the community. The acquisition of these five core values is essential to form the foundation to practice the art and science of nursing.

Caring: The core value of caring is characterized by genuine, warm, and sensitive providers of nursing care who demonstrate empathy, respect for self and colleagues, and healthy self-esteem. These providers use positive communication skills that are growth producing for clients and colleagues.

Critical Thinking: The core value of critical thinking is characterized by self-directed providers of nursing care who make decisions based on self-reflection, rationale and reasoning within their scope of practice. These providers are open-minded and creative when confronted with a variety of challenging situations and they take reasonable risks, when appropriate.

Holism: The core value of holism is characterized by non-judgmental providers of nursing care. They understand, are sensitive to, accept and respect the spirituality and diversity of clients and the communities in which they life. These providers are restorers and promoters of health for clients across the life span. They understand the illness to wellness continuum and accept where clients are on that continuum so that they may help them achieve their highest state of wellness.

Nursing Role Development: The core value of nursing role development is characterized by accountable providers of nursing care who seek as their ideal, ethical, and moral practice. These providers are client advocates who exert assertive behaviors when necessary. They demonstrate adaptability and flexibility in the dynamic health care environments and are productive team members. When appropriate, these providers assume management roles. At all times, they demonstrate the image and presence of a nurse who is committed to the core values of the art and science of nursing.

Safe Practice: The core value of safe practice is characterized by responsible providers of nursing care who demonstrate clinical excellence, cultural competence, and quality care. These providers practice legally and ethically and always seek positive client outcomes. They value the knowledge they have gained from other disciplines and apply that knowledge through the nursing process to make and evaluate appropriate and reasoned decisions.

VISION

The Maricopa Community College District Nursing Program believes that graduates who experience its community of learning become caring and sensitive nursing care providers who demonstrate excellence, wisdom, and practice safely and responsibly. Also it is believed graduates will commit to and demonstrate behaviors that promote health and well being of themselves and others. They also will take an active role in life long learning.

MISSION

It is the mission of the Maricopa Community College District Nursing Program to prepare providers of nursing care who practice according to the core values and vision of its nursing program. These providers will become productive members of the diverse health care community. To accomplish its mission, the Nursing Program provides necessary resources and well-prepared faculty. These faculty practice within a community of learning, are driving forces for change, model professional behaviors, and support adult learning principles and practices. It is also the mission of the Nursing Program to actively develop and maintain collaborative partnerships with its diverse health care community.

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