Undergrad Nursing Handbook - D'Youville College

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HISTORY OF THE D'YOUVILLE COLLEGE SCHOOL OF NURSING 1936 - D'Youville College began discussing the possibility of a nursing major 1942 - Nursing program (BS in Nursing) was launched at D'Youville College 1946 - Seven students received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing 1951 - Rapid growth of the College led to the establishment of the School of Nursing 1967 - Health Science Building, designed to house the School of Nursing, was opened 1973 - Evening and Summer Sessions were offered, enabling students to graduate in August & December 1980 - New curriculum and bylaws were developed by the School of Nursing; Student Nurses Association, D'Youville College Chapter, was founded 1981 - Day and evening divisions merged; the Nursing Honor Society, Sigma Theta Tau, Zeta Nu Chapter, received its charter 1982 - National League for Nursing granted the Department of Nursing 8 years re-accreditation 1983 - Graduate program, MS in Community Health Nursing with functional tracks in Management and Teaching, was initiated 1987 - National League for Nursing granted 8 years re-accreditation of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program and initial accreditation of the Master of Science in Nursing program. 1988 - Friday Graduate Nursing Program was started 1990 - D'Youville College Nursing Center was officially opened at 286 Lafayette Avenue, in the CEM Crane-Cutting Community Center 1990 - Combined BS/MS in Community Health Nursing program for RNs was initiated 1991 - Community Addictions Nursing program was offered as a third functional preparation in the Graduate Nursing Program 1994 - National League for Nursing granted the Division of Nursing 8 years re-accreditation through 2002 1996 - Feasibility study for Nurse Practitioner program approved 1997 - Graduate Family Nurse Practitioner Program was initiated 1997 - Generic Masters in Nursing Program was started 1998 - 5 Year Bachelor of Science/Master of Science in Nursing started 2000 - Family Nurse Practitioner Post-Masters Certificate started. 2001 - Post-baccalaureate certificates started in: Addictions in the Community } Holistic Nursing Practice } Discontinued 2005 Hospice and Palliative Care } Nursing and Health Related Professions Education 2002 - Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education granted the Department of Nursing programs 5 years of accreditation through December 2007 4
2005 – Combined BS/MS in Family Nurse Practitioner for RN’s initiated 2007 - Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education granted the Department of Nursing programs 5 years of accreditation through December 2012 for the BSN and 10 years for the Master’s programs through 2017 2009 – Department of Nursing became the School of Nursing 2010 – Approval of Post Master’s, Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. THE MISSION AND VISION STATEMENTS OF NURSING The mission of the School of Nursing is to educate competent, compassionate, knowledgeable professional nurses who provide patient directed health care to a culturally and spiritually diverse population in a variety of settings. Graduates will be responsible, ethical, and accountable members of the nursing profession committed to the pursuit of excellence in practice, communication, innovation, research, and lifelong learning. The School of Nursing will be a leader in educating nurses who will be advocates for change within the health care system, promote a healthier society, improve nursing practice, and preserve and enhance human dignity and self-determination. The School of Nursing shares beliefs about the major concepts of patient, health, society, nursing care and nursing roles in the health care system and education. The patient or recipient of nursing care may be an individual, family, group (aggregate), or community. Nurses consider support and personal belief systems and other environmental or cultural influences when delivering care. Nursing is a primary health care profession that exists to promote, maintain, and restore the health, well being, and quality of life (including, when necessary, nurturing a peaceful death) of all people, irrespective of socioeconomic class, age, sex, lifestyle, health status, religion, ethnicity, and/or cultural background. The nursing profession is a constitutive component of a larger complex health delivery system, which in turn exists within a great complex society. Nursing practice is therefore influenced by internal professional values and the societal, environmental, educational, religious, cultural, legal, economic, and political values and forces of the external health care system. Nursing care (the art and science of nursing) is an expression of nursing, scientific, and humanistic knowledge, which has as its intention and foundation, compassionate human concern and caring as core moral values. As professionals, nurses are accountable to themselves, patients, the nursing profession, and society. At the professional and societal levels, nurses advocate socially and politically for changes in the health care system that will produce a healthier society, improve nursing, and advance and preserve human dignity and self-determination. Community based and community health nursing are interwoven in the very fabric of our society and nurses deliver care in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, patient homes, schools, work places, crises sites, and a multitude of other community and organized health care settings. Nursing provides essential human services and those services should be directly available to the public, particularly the underserved, wherever and whenever human health care needs exist. Nurses contribute and function in roles at multiple levels (e.g., primary health care) within the complex health care system. They contribute their professional knowledge and skills through providing direct patient care as well as shaping and influencing the greater system by utilizing management and leadership skills. As direct care providers, nurses in partnership with their patients and other health care professionals, plan, deliver, and evaluate nursing care directed towards facilitating healing and wholeness. Nurses promote self-responsibility and empowerment through teaching and counseling. These services assist patients in clarifying personal beliefs, values, and perceptions about health, quality of life, and treatment decisions or choices available. Because these decisions may have profound implications, nurses must be insightful about moral and ethical issues and know how to advocate 5
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Page 3 and 4: INTRODUCTION This Undergraduate Nur
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Page 17 and 18: ADVISEMENT Each semester advisement
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Page 41 and 42: BACKGROUND CHECKS 1. Some clinical
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