Goals of nursing education
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Philosophy and Objectives of Nursing Education
Philosophy
The educational beliefs that support the programs of the College of Nursing are a combination of those of Yonsei University, a Christian institution based on truth and freedom, and that of the Yonsei Medical Center, which focuses on pioneer work as started by the founders of the Medical Center and the spirit of cooperation.
Nursing is a field which must adapt to the needs of society and it is also a practical science that finds its fundamentals in the sciences of humanity, society and nature. It includes human beings, health, environment and the act of nursing.
The human being is a unique and individual self that develops according to the stages of life. Health is an ideal state of well being in which the person's exchange with the environment, accomplishes balance and harmony between the physical, mental, social and spiritual aspects of self. The environment, continuously changing, acts as both an inner and outer factor that affects health. The objective of nursing activity is the health of the people being served and includes treatment, education, support and care for patients.
The purpose of nursing is help individuals, families, organizations and communities to restore as well as preserve and promote their own health in order to achieve an ideal state of well-being.
Professional nurses develop a creative spirit based on altruism, autonomy and social justice and their own nursing abilities in accordance with changes in society.
Educational Objectives
The educational purposes of the College of Nursing are the education of professional nurses who will act as leaders and facilitate the health of patients through therapeutic care relationships, who will recognize the person as a unique and autonomous being and who will develop the nursing skills and knowledge needed to preserve, promote and restore health.
Educational Goals
- To describe the focus of nursing as it relates to the individual, the family, the organization and the community.
- To describe human health as an ideal state that is achieved through harmony and balance within exchanges with the environment.
- To clarify the environment as a continuously changing inner and outer factor that affects health and is interrelated to the patient.
- To help human beings achieve physical, mental, social and social balance and harmony through care, and to help each individual improve self-care skills.
- To apply and integrate knowledge obtained from human, social, natural and nursing sciences to clinical nursing.
- To identify solutions to the health problems of a patient in a scientific way through application of the nursing processes.
- To analyze research results in a critical manner, and apply and evaluate them in clinical nursing.
- To use effective communication to make decisions in nursing practice for diverse patients at different stages of life.
- To practice treatment, education, support and caring for the restoration and promotion of the health of their patients.
- To participate in activities which facilitate improvements in the quality of nursing and in the development of the profession.
- To apply appropriate legal and ethical standards to the clinical practice of nursing.
- To examine and understand factors affecting health care policies.
- To cooperate as members of the health care team within various health care systems,and to practice leadership.
