Our Mission: Our mission is to educate committed, sensitive, and dynamic nurse leaders who can humanely manage the health and illness experiences of individuals, families, and communities in an evolving healthcare environment, and who respond to the needs of the global society through ethical, evidence-based practice. Our Vision: Our vision is to be a leading department that trains innovative and professional nurses who will guide the nursing discipline at national and international levels to improve the health of individuals, families, and communities.
Objectives of the Nursing Department:
- Our graduates are employed by national and international health organizations or in academia.
- Our graduates continue their academic and personal growth, embracing ongoing renewal and improvement in nursing practice.
- Our graduates deliver holistic and humanistic care in line with national and international nursing ethics and practice standards.
Program Outcomes of the Nursing Department:
- Provides compassionate, holistic, dignity-respecting, empathetic, environmentally and culturally sensitive care in line with the nursing process to promote, maintain, and improve health.
- Performs ethical and safe nursing practice guided by professional standards.
- Adopts evidence-based and innovative practices in nursing care and participates in scientific research.
- Embraces lifelong learning, creative thinking, and critical thinking as an integral part of the nursing profession and personal development.
- Utilizes informatics and care technologies in nursing practices.
- Demonstrates leadership and collaboration within intra- and/or interdisciplinary teams by using effective communication skills in nursing education, management, practice, and research.
- Plans nursing care effectively and follows international health literature using at least one foreign language.
Our Values: As a nursing department, we believe that access to quality healthcare services is not a privilege but a social right, and we accept this as our fundamental value. In addition, we present Atatürk’s principles and reforms and the following values as our Core Values:
Care: Care is the essence of nursing practice. We are committed to providing care with a compassionate, conscientious, holistic, transparent, altruistic, and participatory approach based on the uniqueness of each individual.
Sensitivity: We are committed to hearing people’s calls for care based on culture, environment, individual, society, gender equality, and equity, and to responding to these calls grounded in ethical and dignity-based standards.
Ethics: We are committed to being fair, honest, equitable, respectful of human beings and their values, and acting in accordance with universal and scientific ethics in nursing education, practice, and research.
Professionalism: We are committed to becoming confident, communicative, intellectual nurse leaders who advocate for the integration of social justice and equality into healthcare services, freedom of thought, and the awareness of organization.
Scientific Approach/Innovation: As a practice profession and an academic discipline, we are committed to discovering and disseminating new knowledge, applying evidence-based care, and advancing the science of nursing.
Participation/Stakeholder Orientation: We are committed to developing and maintaining a participatory and interactive educational approach to help nursing students reach their full potential.