Nursing Practice Philosophy vs. Educational Philosophy
Point Loma Nazarene University and UCSD Medical Health Center show similarities and differences in their missions and philosophies. Where Point Loma Nazarene University specializes in education to students, UCSD Medical Health Center specializes in providing professional nursing care to the community. Their missions and visions are geared around their individual specialties. At the same time they are similar in respects of teaching, commitment to the community, impacting their communities in positive ways, and professional development.
Both institutions emphasize teaching of students and nurses. Where Point Loma Nazarene University emphasizes excellence in teaching (Mission and Vision, 2012) as in the way it gets delivered to students, USCD Medical Health Center emphasizes teaching as an inspiration (Mission, 2013) where nurses get inspired to teach what they know to others and creates an ongoing teaching inspired environment. Whether it is excellence...
High standards are placed on the quality of the teaching where students and nurses learn to use evidence as a guide in their professional careers by both institutions in the way that teaching is provided and members learn to share the teaching in their perspective environments.
Both institutions show commitment to the communities they serve. Where Point Loma is committed to provide education to students in the community, USCD Medical Health Center is committed to provide nursing care to patients in the community. The commitment that is provided by both institutions is in the quality of the services they provide. Both institutions are committed to providing high quality to empower students and nurses in the community and their individual environments. Both institutions highly stress commitment in the delivery of their services.
The missions and visions of both institutions contain goals of impacting the world around…
Bibliography
Mission and Vision. (2012). Retrieved from PLNU: http://www.pointloma.edu/discover/about-plnu/mission-vision
Mission. (2013). Retrieved from USCD.
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