Social Responsibility

We share responsibility for each other and are committed to providing opportunities for the participation in the economic, political and cultural life of our local, state, regional, national and global communities. We are sensitive to our surrounding community; therefore, we recognize the value of integrating e-learning with the community experience. Our commitment is to provide leadership and to establish partnerships for addressing community and workforce needs and to make a positive difference in the city of Frankfort, the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the world.

School of Nursing Mission, Vision, and Philosophy

Mission

• —The mission of the School of Nursing is to promote the health and well-being of all people through committed excellence to high-quality nursing education in the preparation of diverse, well-rounded, clinically competent, responsible and caring nurses — who will become — integral members of the nursing profession, active contributors to the global health agenda and improvement of the human condition, effective managers and leaders for healthcare, and consumers of nursing research.

Vision

Lead advancements in healthcare and nursing that transform the health sciences landscape within Kentucky, the nation and the world through our innovative contributions to and sustained engagement in nursing education, practice, scholarship, and service.

Core Values

Caring, Integrity, Human Dignity, Autonomy, [acceptance] Diversity and Inclusion, Excellence, Altruism, Communication and Collaboration, [responsibility] Life-Long Learning, Student-Centered Learning – are critical to fostering a culture of excellence in nursing.

Philosophy

Every human being is a diverse, unique, dynamic, sentient, autonomous, multidimensional, and adaptive system with universal and distinctive needs, the capacity to adapt and self-care, and who requires nursing services.

Health is a dynamic and relative continuum of experiences impacting one's sense of well-being. Health is focused on all aspects of the multidimensional human across the life span. Advancing the practice and science of nursing positively influences the health of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations within the commonwealth, the nation and the world.

The environment is the setting or context of everyday life. Dimensions of the environment include but are not limited to: relationships, beliefs, customs, political, economic, psychological and developmental aspects of ones' world, they may be manipulated by the nurse to enhance health.

Nursing is the informed and holistic caring of human beings through the creative use of knowledge and therapeutic intervention activities that enable the attainment of optimal levels of well-being in diverse nursing settings and contexts.