Preparing Students to become
Nurse Leaders Through Service . . .
The University of Mary undergraduate programs in nursing offer:
- Faculty rated as excellent teachers by our students
- Value-based decision-making
- Servant-leadership
- Alumni who are leaders in their field
Mission
We prepare nurses to serve the health care needs of people in the region, without regard to race, creed, cultural background, or gender. By fostering a Christian, Catholic, and Benedictine learning environment, we support the University of Mary's mission to search for truth, develop community, and prepare students to serve and to lead.
Philosophy*
We believe that the fundamental beliefs concerning nursing, person-environment, health, education, and the Rule of Saint Benedict guide the endeavors of our faculty.
We believe that nursing is a professional discipline focused on holistic healing and health of persons and society within an ever-changing environment.
We believe because human experience and response are distinctive, perceptions of health and illness are as diverse as the person-environment interaction from which they arise.
We believe nurses educated at the University of Mary are competent in those areas identified by the university as fundamental to liberal arts education. Our graduates communicate well; think effectively; discern personal and social values; appreciate aesthetic creativity; are conscious, active stewards of the environment; and demonstrate potential to develop professionally.
We believe the values fundamental to the Rule of St. Benedict enhance the nursing paradigm. These guiding precepts include care of the sick, hospitality, respect for person, mindfulness, community, and stewardship.
Outcomes
As a graduate of the University of Mary Division of Nursing undergraduate program you will be able to:
- Implement competent, holistic nursing practices that promote, support, and restore patterns of wellness based upon an understanding of person-environment interactions and the human experience of health, illness, and healing.
- Integrate the use of technology in nursing care to promote, support, and restore optimal levels of human functioning.
- Manage care using leadership skills to achieve quality, cost-effective, and ethical health outcomes in the delivery of health care to persons, families, populations, and environments.
- Practice holistic nursing reflectively, guided by theory, based on evidence, and integrating effective thinking, Benedictine values, professional nursing standards, and servant-leadership competencies.
- Create therapeutic, healing environments by developing and maintaining respectful, caring relationships; communicating therapeutically; and implementing safe, effective interventions.
- Collaborate with persons and other professionals to promote wellness, based on the person's perspective of quality of life and quality of death in all states of life development.
- Engage in self-directed learning to maintain state-of-the-art nursing practices.
Accreditation
Our undergraduate nursing program is approved by the North Dakota Board of Nursing and accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20036-1120, (202) 887-6791.
Faculty
Glenda Reemts, Ph.Dc.; Madonna Busch; Sister Mariah Dietz, D.N.Sc.; Jocelyn Dunnigan; Sara Gebhardt; Annie Gerhardt; Claire Henke; Mary Beth Johnson; Julie Klein; Dorcas Kunkel; Mary Leetun; Billie Madler; Geri Maier; Judy Maslowski; Sherry Messmer; Barb Mickelson; Molly Nolan; Christie Obritsch; Tisha Scheuer; Joan Doerner, Ed.D.; Michael Mullen, J.D.; Teree Rittenbach, Ph.D.; Julie Schmit; and Barb Wilson
*Abridged from the Division of Nursing Philosophy.
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