Mission Statement
"The UVic School of Nursing is dedicated to excellence in accessible and innovative undergraduate and graduate nursing education, research initiatives, and professional activities. The School is committed to generating knowledge, advancing the nursing profession and discipline, and enhancing nursing practice to improve health for individuals, families, communities, and society. Through collaborative partnerships among educators, students, health practitioners, researchers, and policy developers, we strive to promote health and the conditions that support health and social change."
Who We Are
The School of Nursing is one school within the Faculty of Human and Social Development (HSD)
http://www.hsd.uvic.ca.
We are committed to providing leadership in nursing education throughout British Columbia and Canada. Our approach to teaching and learning is based on our respect for learners, and we see teaching and learning as based on partnerships where learners' experiences are valued. The critical social/feminist philosophy in our curricula prepares nurses at the undergraduate and graduate levels to respond to and influence changes in the health care system. Throughout our programs we focus on the experiences of clients as central to nursing practice.
Our School's faculty is a dynamic and enthusiastic group of scholars who are prepared in diverse fields. The faculty is engaged in active programs of teaching and research in a variety of nursing practice contexts -- from health promotion through to critical care and the care of the elderly. A number of faculty are involved in current health care policy/reform initiatives.
The regular teaching faculty at our School is supported by an outstanding group of sessional teaching faculty who are experts in the nursing practice community. All teaching faculty, as well as students, have the benefit of working with a skilled group of professional and support staff. These staff help the School to live its philosophy of caring and empowerment.
Philosophy of our Undergraduate Curriculum
The purpose of our curriculum is to educate nurses to work with individuals, families, groups, or communities from a health promotion perspective and an ethic of caring. The curriculum assists students to develop a sensitivity to people's experiences of health, healing and health promotion. By being cognizant of nurses' profession roles, students learn to work as partners with clients and other health care providers. Through their understanding of and participation in the changing health care system, graduates become active participants in achieving health for all.
Upon graduation, students are able:
- to practice nursing with a health promotion perspective and an ethic of caring within a variety of contexts and with a diverse client population;
- to be an independent, self-directed, self-motivated, and life-long learner with a questioning mind and a familiarity with inquiry approaches to learning;
- to be self-reflective, self-evaluative, and accountable, and make decisions for nursing practice based on different ways of knowing such as critical thinking, intuition, research, and evaluation;
- to create and influence the future of nursing practice at a political, social and professional level by responding to and anticipating the changing needs of society;
- to be prepared to meet the professional practice requirements as identified in the Standards for Nursing Practice in British Columbia (1998), the Nursing Competencies Required of the New Graduate (2000), and the Education Requirements for Future Nurses (1999), as outlined by the CRNBC.
The curriculum incorporates four different philosophical foundations that provide a base for the curriculum: phenomenology, feminism, critical social theory, and humanism. The meta-concepts of health promotion and caring are influenced and informed by these philosophical foundations. The four foundational concepts of ways of knowing, context/culture, time/transitions and personal meaning weave the meta-concepts of caring and health promotion with the four curriculum themes - people's experiences with health; people's experiences with healing; people's experiences with self and others; and people's experiences with professional growth. These philosophical foundations, concepts, and themes are incorporated into every semester in the curriculum.
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