NR 524 Nurse Educators School of Nursing Curriculum Plan
NR 524 Nurse Educators School of Nursing Curriculum Plan
Developing an ADN Mission Statement for a Community College
Nurse educators are mandated with vital roles in developing the nursing practice, preparing future nurses, and developing an elaborate, succinct, and appropriate nursing education curriculum (De Gagne & Phillips, 2017). The development of nursing education programs requires a sound and formidable mission statement, sum up the program’s objectives and target, and outline its achievability.
Appropriate mission statements are essential in giving the program clarity and direction as to its core objectives and the roles of stakeholders therein. Notably, a program’s mission statement should echo and align with the parent organization’s mission statement. This paper will develop an ADN program’s mission statement for Chamberlain University College of Nursing and outline the ADN mission statement consistent with the parent organization.
Parent Organization Mission Statement
Chamberlain University mission statement is “To educate, empower, and embolden diverse healthcare professionals who advance the health of people, families, communities, and nations.” The Chamberlain mission statement outlines the organization’s commitment to the promotion of health provision services of not only individuals but across nations through empowering and appropriate education of health care providers.
Furthermore, the mission statement captures a critical aspect in healthcare: diversity, showing an orientation towards empowering healthcare providers to embrace the aspect.
The Associate Degree in Nursing Program Mission Statement
The healthcare provision discipline is increasingly becoming dynamic and vast due to technological and changing patient needs, i.e., the surge in patients requiring geriatric care (Kadhium, 2021). The Chamberlain University College of Nursing considers this in developing the ADN program to prepare RNs for nursing practice and future advancement to BSNs.
The Chamberlain ASN program’s mission will be “To equip nursing students with adequate, appropriate and culturally sensitive knowledge and skills for advancement in the clinical setting with the use of research and evidence-based practice while providing high quality, compassionate care on a regional, national and global level.”
Elements of the ADN Program’s Mission Statement
The ADN’s mission statement is categorically congruent with the Chamberlain University mission statement as it echoes the core organizational objectives of the institution.
Furthermore, as a program meant for the development of nursing students, its key focus is on providing excellent teaching services meant for the improvement of nursing care. Another element of the ADN mission statement is that it touches on the program’s unique values. Finally, is the target population set to benefit from the program, and how they will benefit.
Congruency of the ADN Program’s Mission Statement with Chamberlains’
The Chamberlain University mission statement outlines its vital commitment to the education, empowerment, and emboldening of diverse healthcare professionals. The organization essentially prepares healthcare professionals to advance health to people, families, communities, and nations (Shustack, 2019).
Congruent with Chamberlain’s mission statement is the ADN mission, which explicitly targets nursing students with adequate knowledge to be advanced in clinical settings to better people’s health. Another aligning factor between the two mission statements is the focus on diversity;
Chamberlain University’s mission aims to produce diverse healthcare professionals, a concept reflected in the ADN program’s mission emphasis on cultural sensitivity. Teaching and Service The program’s mission statement highlights the ADN commitment to providing adequate and appropriate knowledge and skills to the nursing students, i.e., its emphasis on using evidence-based practice among its targets (Kadhium, 2021).
Furthermore, cultural competence is a crucial component of the nursing teaching program, which will capitalize on intensive research 4 and evidence-based practice, thus fostering the quality of teaching. Regarding service delivery, the program’s ultimate goal, as outlined in the mission statement, is to provide compassionate and high-quality services to all those whom the program’s graduates will handle.