Mission Statement

Mission Statement

The mission of the Ellis Hospital School of Nursing is to prepare the Associate degree graduate for Registered Professional Nurse licensure.  The graduate will function as a beginning nurse who provides safe, competent, compassionate nursing care to maximize the health and well being of all people served.

Vision Statement

To be nationally recognized as a hospital school of nursing,  trusted and respected by our community.

Philosophy

The faculty of the Ellis Hospital School of Nursing believes education is a dynamic process wherein students acquire knowledge,  attitudes and skills that enable them to better understand self,  fellow human beings and responsibility to society.  Learning is dependent upon the students' ability, readiness to learn and active participation in the process.

Human beings are a complex union of interrelated physical,  psychosocial and spiritual components.  Each individual in their unique way shares commonalities with all.  The individual develops through life in stages,  striving to meet needs by relating to internal and external environments,  with the primary goal of attaining optimum potential and moving on a health/illness continuum throughout life.

Nursing is a humanistic art and science which necessitates a genuine caring and respect for the personal worth and dignity of each individual.  The nurse assists the patient/client in attaining and sustaining their optimum level of functioning during wellness and illness and in dying with dignity.

In collaboration with other members of the health team,  the nurse manages and delivers holistic health care,  based upon the synthesis of learning in the biological and behavioral sciences.  It is essential that the practitioner be sensitive to multicultural needs in the community while striving to maximize the health and well-being of all people served.

Nursing education is a process through which the student acquires attitudes,  knowledge and skills which enable him/her to use critical thinking to recognize actual or potential health problems,  to prevent illness through health teaching and counseling and to provide nursing care.  In the learning process,  the student becomes increasingly more accountable and self directed,  developing values and attitudes consistent with the ethical/legal standards of the nursing profession.  Inherent in nursing education is the need for continued learning throughout the practitioner's life.

The Ellis Hospital School of Nursing curriculum provides a variety of opportunities that encourage learning through individual guidance and planned experiences in the classroom,  community and hospital,  with emphasis on clinical practice.  The faculty assists the student to use the nursing process,  and to develop caring behaviors that are basic to nursing.  We as faculty believe that teaching-learning is a shared process and is best achieved in an atmosphere where intellectual curiosity is stimulated.  Knowledgeable,  skilled and caring role models are an essential component of the teaching-learning process.