Core Curriculum and required support courses augment the nursing courses in preparing a professional nurse for the twenty-first century who functions at the client's side in a diverse health care delivery system. Nurses holding a baccalaureate degree have the opportunity to advance their careers with additional education and experience to become advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, faculty, administrators, consultants, researchers, lawyers and physicians. The program is accredited by the National League for Nursing and has initial accreditation from the Missouri State Board of Nursing. Each person is a unique open system interacting with the environment. Health Health is viewed on a continuum from wellness to illness.
Wellness is equated with optimal system stability resulting from a normal line of defense.
Participation by the person is an essential element in improvement, maintenance, and restoration of health. The environment consists of all internal and external stressors surrounding the person. The relationship between the person and environment is reciprocal and circular in nature. Nursing Nursing is a caring profession in its consideration of all client system variables demonstrating a holistic care approach to client situations. The nurse is sensitive to population and cultural stressors in a rapidly changing global environment.