Nursing Education

Course Structure

1. The mission of the Lamar University Department of Nursing is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to become qualified, competent, professional nurses who are prepared for practice. The Department provides quality nursing education relevant to a changing profession, society, and healthcare environment. Collaboration between faculty and students promotes excellence in health care delivery to diverse populations. A spirit of caring, continual inquiry, creativity and integrity is promoted through teaching, scholarship, leadership and service.
2. Nursing is based on the concepts of moral agency, effective communication including technology, inquiry, and service to the community. The goals of nursing are to provide safe patient/client centered holistic/multi-dimensional care to assist humanity in collaboration with other disciplines in disease prevention, health promotion, health maintenance and restoration, and the support of death with dignity. Nursing emphasizes a spirit of caring, interpersonal communication, critical thinking, clinical reasoning and patient-centered care to contribute to the health of the individual and society. The responsibility of the nurse is to use the nursing process to assist people to meet health care needs, to attain health related goals within legal, ethical, and regulatory parameters to advocate for patients/clients. Nurses use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, and support decision making to provide competent patient/client-centered care. As members of the profession, nurses collaborate with other disciplines in achieving these goals. The faculty believe in preparing professional nurses with essential competencies in four major roles: Member of the Profession (MOP), Provider of Patient Centered Care (PCC), Patient Safety Advocate (PSA), and Member of the Healthcare Team (MOT).