Part-Time Bachelor of Science in Nursing

The Nursing Department at Misericordia University embraces the charisms of mercy, service, justice and hospitality while preparing future nurses and nurse leaders for a life of service and global citizenship.  Students will actively engage in an evidence-based educational experience that promotes critical thinking and intellectual curiosity, grounded in the sciences and liberal arts.  The focus is to provide ethical, safe and humanistic care as part of the multidisciplinary healthcare team to optimize health outcomes for diverse individuals, families, and communities.

The Nursing Department at Misericordia University aims to be a leading provider of nursing education that inspires and empowers a diverse community of future nurse leaders to advance the profession and optimize health of all persons in a collaborative, culturally sensitive and rapidly expanding health care environment.

All graduates of the undergraduate nursing program will be able to:

1. Incorporate science, theoretical and empirical knowledge from the liberal arts, basic sciences, and nursing to promote health, risk reduction, disease prevention, and, illness and disease management for the welfare of others.
2. Utilize an evidence based approach in the delivery of health care to individuals, families, groups, and communities within the global society.
3. Use critical thinking skills and the nursing process to design, provide, manage, and coordinate nursing care.
4. Participate with patients and interdisciplinary team members to improve quality patient care.
5. Incorporate knowledge of leadership management principles in professional role development.
6. Provide safe, humanistic nursing care to patients in a variety of settings by demonstrating respect for patient rights, professionalism, and ethical decision-making.
7. Demonstrate information literacy and utilization of healthcare technologies used to support the delivery of health care.