{"id":37705,"date":"2024-07-09T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/?page_id=37705"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:40:58","slug":"mission-values","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/mission-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission &#038; Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"color: #660033;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-731 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/06\/Resources.png\" alt=\"Student Resources\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Department of Nursing<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"color: #660033;\">Our Mission:<\/h3>\n<p>The mission of the º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Department of Nursing is to prepare nurse leaders to advance health equity for all, both locally and globally, through community-centered, inclusive, whole-person care, grounded in the faith and values of the Lutheran Church.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #660033;\">Our Purpose:<\/h3>\n<p>Advancing Health Equity for All.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #660033;\">Our Vision:<\/h3>\n<p>Faculty, students, and graduates will create a more equitable and just world for all by championing collaborative action, demonstrating excellence in scholarship, and fostering innovation in the discipline.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #660033;\">Our Program Goals:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Graduates of all nursing programs at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ will be prepared to provide just nursing care utilizing the dimensions of holistic care, supporting community, technology and quality improvement, and professional excellence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"color: #660033;\">Our Core Values:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Courage<\/strong> &#8211; To dream, to choose, to reimagine, to belong, to be heard, to challenge truths, to be culturally safe, and to provide care unconditionally<\/li>\n<li><strong>Engagement<\/strong> &#8211; Centering humility and grounded in relationships, we engage collaboratively with the community as we co-create more equitable means to provide care, including collaboration across disciplines<\/li>\n<li><strong>Agency<\/strong> &#8211; Using praxis to examine OR examining the historical context and root causes of injustices in order to use our collective power as nurses to shape future policies and practices<\/li>\n<li><strong>Integration<\/strong> &#8211; Robust learning environments that incorporate new ideas and worldviews in order to\u00a0 create new brave spaces that improve the health of all.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Innovation<\/strong> &#8211; Creating new models, practices, and knowledge grounded in care for all.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Holism<\/strong> &#8211; The understanding that wellness extends beyond the physical dimension and is intricately connected to and influenced by culture and the environment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Praxis as Social Justice*<\/strong> &#8211; To use critical reflection that moves towards action to transform conditions, structures, and systems in all we do, especially as it relates to advancing the discipline of nursing. *<em>as defined by Chinn, \u201cis a professional practice directed by and toward social justice goals and outcomes, which includes reflectivity, action, and transformation\u2026in order to transform the world\u201d (Kagan et al. 2018, p.1)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Excellence<\/strong> &#8211; In teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and service to advance the discipline of nursing to transform conditions, structures, and systems for the greater good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Department of Nursing Our Mission: The mission of the º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Department of Nursing is to prepare nurse &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37705","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37705"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37897,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37705\/revisions\/37897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}