Mission
The mission of the University of Lynchburg Department of Nursing is to provide a student centered education that develops effective nurse leaders to equitably serve a diverse population in dynamic healthcare communities.
Graduates of University of Lynchburg’s nursing program will be able to:
- Make appropriate nursing practice decisions using research and evidence based practice for persons of various ages and health states to promote and improve health care results.
- Provide safe, patient-centered, culturally competent nursing care across the continuum for individuals, families, communities, and populations to promote health and disease prevention.
- Communicate effectively with patients, families, colleagues, and professionals from other disciplines.
- Demonstrate effective, ethical use of information technologies to perform and document safe, quality patient care.
- Demonstrate excellence in writing skills and research by producing creative scholarship that expands nursing knowledge.
- Positively influence health care outcomes through inter-professional collaboration to accomplish patient health care goals.
- Integrate knowledge of health care policies, systems management, and finance using innovative approaches to promote continuous quality improvement in healthcare settings
- Demonstrate professional behaviors and values to model the core attributes of the nursing profession and pursue practice excellence.
Program Values
- Civility
- Clinical judgment
- Communication
- Compassionate care
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, accessibility
- Ethics
- Evidence Based Practice
- Health Policy
