Educational Philosophy

From the perspective of the discipline, the goal of basic nursing education is to empower, through mentorship, students of nursing, so they may develop their identity as a caring person and as professional nurses whose intent, expression of nursing knowledge, and created moments within the nursing situation, is appreciated as caring by the other person. 

As a profession, these nursing situations are created within the basic four (4) spheres of care (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2021) in a traditional clinical setting or contemporary emerging non-clinical setting. Knowledge from nursing discipline and ancillary disciplines, including caring science, is therefore essential in the proper actualization of nursing knowledge within nursing situations and appreciating such expression and the created moment as caring.


About the Curriculum

The College offers a BSN program grounded on nursology, caring science, and palliative philosophy. Our pedagogy is rooted in the Benedictine core values of prayer and work (ora et labora).

This distinct BSN curriculum is transtheoretical in nature, meaning various nursing theories inform the curriculum's perspective, language, direction, and content. The Rogerian Science of Unitary Human Being (Butcher, 2021; Rogers, 1994) and Nursing as Caring Theory (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2000) serve as the central grounding of the curriculum with the Humanistic Nursing Theory (Paterson & Zderad, 1988), Humanbecoming Theory (Parse, 1997; Rizzo Parse, 2007), Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness (Newman, 1999), Behavioral Systems Model (Johnson, 1980), Human-to-Human Model (Travelbee, 1972) and Watson’s Clinical Caritas Process (Watson, 1997) adding their distinct element within the curriculum.  Even with the existing plurality of nursing theories and models informing the curriculum, the concepts of nursing knowledge, nursing perspective, nursing situations, and caring as the expression of nursing knowledge are recurring themes within the curriculum orientation and course content.





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