Mission of the School of Nursing

At Platt College of Colorado

Our Vision

We, the faculty at the School of Nursing at Platt College, seek to instill in each nursing student a foundation of knowledge and skills necessary to meet the ever changing societal healthcare needs by encouraging life-long learning and a passion for professional nursing practice.

Our Mission

The School of Nursing at Platt College prepares employment-ready graduates for diverse professional nursing practice while promoting personal and professional integrity and utilization of evidence to provide competent, safe, high quality, effective care for individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.

Our Core Values

Diversity

• The School of Nursing embraces diversity in cultural backgrounds, personal characteristics and recognizing the free expression of ideas, opinions, and differences in people, and respects the rights of students, faculty, and staff.
• We believe each person is a unique holistic being with biological, psychological, and social needs that are shaped by cultural and spiritual belief systems within a dynamic environment.

Excellence in the Learning Process

• The School of Nursing values the role that faculty play in individualizing instruction, encouraging critical thinking, stimulating creativity, and in providing high-quality, student-centered, academic instruction, and information literacy.
• We believe nursing education is an interactive process that demands the engagement of both the learner and faculty member in a mutually respectful relationship.  This reciprocal process assists the student in acquiring knowledge to promote health behaviors, prevent disease, reduce health risks, manage unhealthy behaviors, apply healthcare technology, practice within ethical and legal standards, develop sensitivity to human diversity, understand the impact of global health care, and work productively as a leader and change agent within a variety of healthcare settings.

Ethics and Integrity

• The School of Nursing promotes a strong work ethic and places fairness, objectivity, transparency, and accountability as basis for its policies and procedures in all aspects of The School of Nursing.
• We believe education within liberal arts and sciences along with nursing education provides the educational foundation for each student to develop and apply the professional values of caring, altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice.

Personal Development

• The School of Nursing is committed to intellectual and personal growth of students, faculty, and staff.
• We believe personal development includes an internalization of the value of life-long learning as well as a passion for professional nursing practice.

Community

• The School of Nursing is a caring community of students, faculty, staff and administration who work collaboratively to foster leadership and development of others.  We endeavor to provide baccalaureate-educated, employment-ready, culturally humble graduates who are prepared to meet the needs of a global community.
• We believe the educational environment is rich, complex and interconnected with the diverse economic, social, and political environments in which students live and learn.  A sense of community developed within the educational environment is critical for fostering a shared emotional connection, integration and fulfillment of needs, influence and membership among faculty, staff and students (McMillan & Chavis, 1986).

McMillan, D.W., & Chavis, D.M. 1986. "Sense of community: A definition and theory," p. 16.

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