We offer a 100% online RN to BSN degree program, and MSN degree program in Nursing Education and Nursing Administration (dual concentration).
We offer a 100% online RN to BSN degree program, and MSN degree program in Nursing Education and Nursing Administration (dual concentration).
RN to BSN Degree Program Mission, Vision and Philosophy
Our Mission
The mission of the University of Mount Olive RN to BSN degree program is to provide high quality, student-centered nursing education that builds on prior experience, knowledge and skills of registered nurses. Students are prepared to think critically and address complex health issues in a multicultural and evolving World. The degree program helps meet the needs of the nursing profession and of society to improve health and healthcare delivery.
Our Vision
The vision of the University of Mount Olive RN to BSN degree program works in concert with that of the University, “…to serve our students, our founding church, and our communities.” The RN to BSN degree program is committed to educating registered nurses to become competent nursing leaders, researchers and educators who integrate their Christian faith, beliefs, values, ethics, and stewardship into their nursing practice while providing compassionate care to a multicultural and evolving patient population.
Our Philosophy
Baccalaureate education incorporates interdisciplinary knowledge from natural and social sciences, humanities, arts, and nursing. Baccalaureate education fosters an increased sense of professionalism, equips learners with professional knowledge and skills needed to meet the health needs of a diverse community, prepares students for a variety of professional nursing roles and for graduate education, and enables positive attitudes towards life-long learning. RN to BSN education builds on the unique attributes, knowledge, and expertise of RN learners. The curriculum is problem focused and engages students in active learning.
The central concepts of nursing's paradigm are the relationship of the patient, health, environment, and nursing. This paradigm along with nursing theory and principles of teaching/learning are fundamental to baccalaureate nursing education. An eclectic nursing model, based on selective nursing theories, serves as the conceptual framework for the University of Mount Olive RN to BSN degree program. The paradigm concepts of nursing are defined below.
The patient is an individual, family, aggregate, and/or community. Striving toward equilibrium in an unstable environment, the patient is an open adaptive, goal oriented, and interpersonal system incorporating physical, psychological, interdependence, social, developmental, role, and spiritual spheres. The patient has characteristic patterns of energy fields and behavior and possesses varying degrees of self-care agency which may differ across cultures. Patients collaborate with the nurse and share responsibility for health outcomes.
The environment is composed of internal and external stimuli including social, cultural, economic, political, legal, ethical, and spiritual dimensions. The patient and the environment are inseparable interacting energy patterns unfolding together toward greater complexity and diversity. The environment influences the person’s health and the person in turn, influences the environment.
Health is experienced as a state of connectedness and harmony of physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects within self, with others, and with the environment. As a dynamic state of well-being, health means system equilibrium, adaptation, ability to express oneself in a productive way, to resist stressors, and to meet self-care needs. Health also means harmonious patterning of energy fields, evolving patterns of consciousness, and the continuous process of changing and becoming. Each person perceives health uniquely, according to personal cultural context.
Nursing is concerned with the full range of human experience and responses to health and illness. Nursing incorporates goal oriented action that assists the patient toward adaptation, self-care, equilibrium, and higher levels of consciousness. The roles of the nurse include provider of care, teacher, advocate, leader, manager, and researcher. The art and science of nursing involves development of a caring relationship, application of scientific knowledge, and use of judgment and critical thinking in the facilitation of health and healing. Nurses promote social justice, influence public policy, and help meet the needs of society to improve health and healthcare delivery.
Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Nursing Education and Nursing Administration (Dual concentration) Mission, Vision and Philosophy
Our Mission
The mission of the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at the University of Mount Olive is “to support the University’s mission through building on baccalaureate nursing education for the purpose of preparing nurse educators and nurse leaders by broadening their nursing theoretical, practice, and research knowledge for delivery of healthcare with diverse populations in a rapidly changing healthcare system.”
The MSN program mission is congruent with the University's institutional Mission, whose major focus is to provide quality educational opportunities for its students as “…a Christian faith-based, values-centered private institution rooted in the liberal arts tradition. We [the University] serve[s] our students, our founding church, and our communities” throughout our eastern North Carolina primary service area. Our institution’s vision is to “exemplify lifelong learning and engaged participation among our students, faculty, staff, and constituents. To serve our students, our founding church, and the communities [including nursing] in which we are located, we “provide our students – regardless of age, location, or learning style – a high quality education rooted in the liberal arts and strengthened by Christian values, enrich and support the ministries of our founding church, and provide customized innovative and beneficial services to each community in which we are located.” The eight core values fundamental to achieving our mission and vision are articulated in our University Covenant: Honesty and Trustworthiness, Justice and Courage, Responsibility and Gratitude, and Caring and Respect.
Our Vision
The vision of the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at the University of Mount Olive is “to grow leaders in nursing education, nursing administration, and nursing research in the global healthcare environment.”
Our Philosophy
The philosophy of the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at the University of Mount Olive views nursing as a professional service discipline grounded in the arts, sciences, humanities, and the application of knowledge obtained through scientifically based inquiry. The nursing faculty promote and adhere to a paradigm of caring that addresses holistic human responses throughout the age continuum. This paradigm includes nursing education, nursing administration, and nursing research practices that encompass provisions of care, coordination of care, and consummate professionalism. While the nursing faculty subscribe to a variety of theoretical frameworks reflecting adaptation, self-care, transcultural, and humanistic aspects, we believe that the essence of nursing is caring.
The nursing faculty view “caring” as the basis for nursing. Caring involves recognizing patient diversity, potential, autonomy, and universal needs. Further, caring involves understanding and acceptance; it promotes egalitarian relationships and has as its ultimate goal the empowerment of all individuals. The concept of caring permeates nursing education, nursing administration, and nursing research practices, and all three of these entities are intertwined in the delivery of global healthcare. The nursing faculty draw upon their collective cognitive, clinical, and creative abilities to prepare nursing educators and nursing administrators for the promotion of safe and effective nursing care that is in compliance with evidence-based standards of practice.
We believe that both the nursing faculty and nursing students have a responsibility to each other to create a learning environment that is conducive to: Learning, freedom of thought, scholarly inquiry, affirmation of beliefs and skills, critical thinking, critical decision-making, ethical practice, facilitative communication, and leadership. Our MSN graduates will assume roles as professional nursing leaders and nursing educators in the academic and nursing professional development settings. They will promote the health of individuals, families, and populations, the enhancement of society’s healthcare management, and evidence-based practices in the nursing profession in today’s rapidly changing healthcare settings.
Healthcare provides a dynamic environment in which there exists potential for physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being for all individuals. Healthcare professionals practicing in this environment need to work in partnership with each other and the communities they serve. Both independent and collaborative nursing strategies are necessary components of practice. To this end, the faculty is committed to role-modeling a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to nursing education, nursing administration, and nursing research practices, and to developing in students a sense of awareness of fiscal and outcome aspects of the current healthcare market place.
The University of Mount Olive nursing faculty believe that the practice of professional nursing requires a commitment to lifelong learning. We believe that the professional nurse has the responsibility to be visionary in the promotion and improvement of caring in current as well as future healthcare delivery models.
The University of Mount Olive is proud to offer a 100% online, CCNE accredited, RN to BSN degree program, fostering students’ ability through the liberal arts components to enhance their development intellectually, socially, culturally, and spiritually as professional nurses. The bachelor of science degree in nursing (BSN) is designed for licensed registered nurses (RNs) who have graduated from an associate degree or diploma program in nursing, and are planning to return to school for a bachelors degree and/or preparation for graduate-level education. Read more about our program here: https://www.umo.edu/programs-of-study/daytime/nursing
We offer a year-round 100% online CCNE accredited Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program for 37-semester hours that you can complete in 15-consecutive months (or 4-consecutive semesters)
Read more about our MSN program here: https://www.umo.edu/programs-of-study/online/master-of-science-in-nursing
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Fully Accredited by CCNE, 100% Online, RN to BSN Degree Program. Read more here: https://www.umo.edu/programs-of-study/daytime/nursing
Fully Accredited by CCNE, 100% Online MSN Degree Program. Read more here: https://www.umo.edu/programs-of-study/online/master-of-science-in-nursing
