The vision of the Department of Nursing at Curry College is to educate nurses who will practice professional nursing with creativity, compassion, and commitment.

The mission of the Nursing Program is to prepare and advance the practice of professional nursing to provide safe and effective nursing care and to reduce error. The nursing faculty strives to educate a nurse who is able to gain and apply knowledge humanely, intelligently, and effectively in a complex changing world and who demonstrates continued involvement in learning, study, and research.

To achieve this mission the Nursing Program provides a caring and innovative educational environment, which promotes intellectual and social growth, synthesis of knowledge and interpersonal and clinical expertise, and engages the student in critical thinking. 

The Division promotes individual and professional growth by engaging the students in achieving these educational outcomes:

Thinking Critically
• Demonstrates critical thinking, which provides a framework for the development of clinical judgment.
• Evaluates evidence when providing patient centered care.

Communicating effectively
• Utilizes therapeutic communication skills to enhance patient outcomes.
• Communicates effectively with the interdisciplinary health care team.
• Uses shared decision-making to achieve quality care.

Understanding context
• Considers history, culture, and current societal morals and values when planning and implementing patient-centered care.
• Uses health care systems and available resources to minimize risk.
• Manages knowledge to communicate, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Appreciating aesthetic experience
• Integrates an awareness of the arts and sciences and patient/family preferences when planning and implementing patient-centered care.

Defining a Personal Identity
• Demonstrates responsibility and leadership in nursing practice.
• Assumes accountability for one’s own and delegated actions.
• Assumes responsibility for the professional presentation of oneself.

Examining value systems
• Practices nursing with an awareness of ethical issues, moral choices, and an appreciation of diversity and tolerance.
• Applies standards for professional nursing behavior.

Adapting and innovating
• Continues professional development through personal and professional activities.
• Advocates for change in the health delivery system.