The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) pre-licensure program provides a strong foundation in biblical studies, liberal arts, and the sciences. The BSN program is organized around a framework of providing answers (program outcomes) to nine essential questions, grounded in the overarching concept of service.
In professional nursing: - Why do we serve?
- Whom do we serve?
- Where do we serve?
- When do we serve?
- How do we serve?
- In what condition or spirit do we serve?
- What skills and abilities are needed to serve?
- With whom do we serve?
- To whom are we accountable when we serve?
The Concept of Service:
Nine Essential Questions | Program Outcomes:
Answers to Nine Essential Questions |
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- Why do we serve?
| Approach nursing from a biblically based, Christian worldview, equipped to minister and serve as opportunities arise within the home, church, community, and world. | 2. Whom do we serve? | Provide nursing ministry and service across the continuum of healthcare environments, to humankind: individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations; the underserved, poor, and disadvantaged; individuals across the lifespan; and diverse populations. | | 3. Where do we serve? | Provide nursing ministry and service, delivered in person or virtually, in multiple settings including home, church, community, and world. | | 4. When do we serve? | Provide timely nursing services for promoting health and preventing disease.
Minister and serve humankind during times of unmet healthcare needs. | | 5. How do we serve? | Utilize professional standards of practice as a basis for assuming nursing roles required in providing nursing care and services.
Demonstrate awareness of and appropriate use of ethical, legal, and political standards/influences when providing nursing care and services. | | 6. In what condition or spirit do we serve? | Demonstrate Christian character, servant leadership, and wellness-oriented self-care while practicing within a biblically-based, Christian worldview. | | 7. What skills and abilities are needed to serve? | Demonstrate proficiency in skills and abilities characteristic of a professional nurse generalist. | | 8. With whom do we serve? | Participate in collaborative practice with interprofessional healthcare team members, while applying skills of relationship building, servant-leadership, and management.
Collaborate with other communities of interest, such as local/extended church organizations, healthcare organizations, and community support agencies to provide nursing service as healthcare opportunities arise. | | 9. To whom are we accountable when we serve? | Recognize individual and professional accountability to Christ, the general public, the nursing profession, and healthcare employers for providing safe, efficient, effective, equitable, ethical, evidence-based, patient-centered, and timely professional care. |
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