School of Nursing Mission, Philosophy and Values

MISSION 

SUNY Delhi School of Nursing seeks to engage students in an innovative, caring, and collaborative learning environment. In preparation for interprofessional nursing practice and leadership roles, the School of Nursing provides opportunities to progress through undergraduate and graduate levels of education. The school prepares graduates to effectively respond to the needs of a dynamic, complex, and diverse healthcare community. 

PHILOSOPHY

The foundation of our school's educational philosophy is the constructivist theory in which: 

• The learner is an individual who makes decisions about his or her educational needs through active engagement in the learning process.
• The teaching methods support students' self-directedness in the educational process.
• Learning is a lifelong dynamic process involving interactions among the learner, teacher, and environment. The interactions are designed to provide the opportunity for each learner to advance toward professional goals.

VALUES

Developing students’ professional values is a critical aspect across our curricula to guide the decisions and behaviors in professional practice, to help promote professional development and encourage lifelong learning.  The values developed by students in our programs are:

• Activism - we are updating this one I will share once we have it
• Caring -Protect privacy/confidentiality, moral/legal rights of patients and research participants, act as advocate, provide care without prejudice, practice using fidelity and respect.
• Justice - Engage in self-evaluation, request consultation/collaboration, seek education, accept responsibility/accountability, and maintain competence.
• Professionalism - Participate in peer review, establish, promote, and maintain standards, initiate actions to improve environments of practice.
• Trust - Protest health/safety, promote equitable access/care, and assume responsibility for needs of culturally diverse populations.