Catholic Identity
Mount Carmel College of Nursing, a private Catholic college, has developed several commitments to promote its identity as a Catholic institution of higher education. These commitments include:
- Be faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church.
- Serve others, particularly the poor, underprivileged and vulnerable members of society.
- Witness the Catholic faith and Judeo Christian values through administrators, faculty and staff, and by those of other faith traditions.
- Integrate Catholic values into the curriculum; assure faculty and student awareness of the convictions of Catholic health care.
- Create a campus culture and environment that is expressive and supportive of a Catholic way of life.
Mission Statement
Mount Carmel College of Nursing, a collaborative learning community, serving in the spirit of the Catholic tradition, offers excellent science-based education in nursing and allied health in a caring, respectful, and socially responsible environment.
Core Values
- Academic Excellence
- Respect
- Compassion
- Social Responsibility
Goals
- Offer educational opportunities for holistic development of outstanding health care professionals.
- Respect diverse spiritual and cultural values.
- Serve the community.
Expected Outcomes
- The graduates demonstrate competence for practice.
- The faculty demonstrates excellence in teaching, service, scholarship, and practice.
- The teaching-learning process occurs in an environment supportive of diversity.
- The faculty, students, and staff provide quality healthcare programs and services to communities.
Diversity
Mount Carmel College of Nursing promotes a diverse and inclusive environment which respects all students as individuals and empowers them to reach their potential to become professional nurses.
Philosophy of Nursing
Mount Carmel College of Nursing provides educational programs in a Judeo-Christian environment which enhances the unique intellectual, moral, spiritual, and psychosocial development of the person. The faculty accepts responsibility to prepare professional nurses for theory based practice at the basic and advanced levels that reflects the values and standards of the profession.
Caring is integral to nursing, valuing the dignity and worth of persons, service to others, social justice, altruism, autonomy, and integrity. Nursing is the practice of caring behaviors founded upon the integration of general education and professional studies. Nursing involves the management of health care of individuals, families, communities, and populations. The nurse is a health care professional who enacts multifaceted roles to promote optimal health during all life experiences. Nurses work collaboratively with clients and multidisciplinary teams to design, provide, coordinate and implement health care. They respond to diverse and changing needs of society in the local community as well as the broader global community. Nurses are both knowledgeable and active in political, economic and regulatory processes that influences health care practices.
Health involves the harmonious integration of all dimensions of the client; it is culturally defined, valued and practiced. Health is a dynamic, lifelong, multidimensional process whether the client is an individual, family, community, or population. Changes in health status occur in response to the stressors and strengths of the internal and external environment. The nurse provides holistic caring interventions directed at assisting the client to promote health.
Nursing education provides the foundation for professional nursing practice. Through a collaborative and interactive process the self-directed learner develops the skills of critical thinking, effective communication, holistic assessment, care giving, and leadership for professional practice. Clinical practice, which is the essence of nursing, is augmented through nursing theory and research. Baccalaureate nursing education encourages life long inquiry for professional development.
Graduate nursing education provides the foundation for specialized roles in educational and clinical practice. Research, theory for advanced practice, and strategies for validating and utilizing research findings are integral to graduate study.
Philosophy of Teaching
The faculty at Mount Carmel College of Nursing believe that teaching-learning is a dynamic, interactive sharing of knowledge that stimulates lifelong learning for both learner and educator.
We believe that both learners and faculty are responsible for a collaborative teaching-learning process. Students are responsible for engaging in learning opportunities while faculty are responsible for providing innovative nursing education based on theory and evidence. As faculty we pledge to maintain our expertise and to promote nursing knowledge.
We strive to create an intellectually challenging learning environment where faculty role model professional education and nursing standards. We believe in developing caring relationships with students that promote personal, academic, and professional growth.
We believe in developing the learner to his/her greatest potential through growth of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are hallmarks of the professional nurse.
Code of Conduct
It is understood that the Mount Carmel College of Nursing administration, faculty, staff, and student body share in the responsibility of upholding the College Mission and Core Values. Three committees of the College have been entrusted to write a code of conduct reflecting this level of excellence: The Academic and Professional Misconduct Committee, the Student Government Association, and the Mutual Respect Committee. These Committees put forth the following code of conduct, a living document, designed to:
- work to ensure the integrity of the nursing and allied health professions;
- create an academic and professional environment that reflects the College’s Mission and Core Values;
- reflect the policies of the College on standards of conduct; and
- follow the policies on nursing practice from the Ohio Board of Nursing (Nursing’s, Rules Promulgated From the Law Regulating Practice of Nursing, February 1, 2009, 4723-5-12 (B).
In accordance with the above the administration, faculty, staff, and students will commit to the following:
Academic Excellence
- Achieving the highest level of academic excellence that I can through honesty and integrity both in and out of the classroom and in clinical settings.
- Striving to embody excellence and provide the highest quality work in the academic and in the clinical settings.
- Acting in a professional manner while in the College of Nursing and in all activities, functions, and clinical sites associated with the College and the profession of nursing.
Respect
- Contributing to creating a safe, respectful, and supportive atmosphere for teaching and learning.
- Regarding privacy and confidentiality as essential obligations.
- Communicating with peers, staff, and faculty in a professional and respectful manner.
- Taking responsibility for my words and actions.
Compassion
- Demonstrating a commitment to the attributes of compassion, empathy, altruism, responsibility, and tolerance.
- Demonstrating caring behaviors at all times.
- Respecting individual diversity through a non-judgmental attitude and approach.
- Working to become a creative problem solver.
Social Responsibility
- Refusing to tolerate discrimination, disrespect, or bullying.
- Committing to bring any discrimination, disrespect, or bullying to the attention of the Chairperson of the Academic and Professional Misconduct Committee or the Director of Student Life.
- Refusing to tolerate incidents of dishonesty or lack of integrity.
- Committing to bring incidents of dishonesty or lack of integrity to the attention of the Chairperson of the Academic and Professional Misconduct Committee or the Director of Student Life.
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