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UST Hosts Commission to Lay Initial Framework for School of Nursing
3/1/2010
 The University of St. Thomas is moving forward to lay the framework for the proposed School of Nursing. UST hosted the Commission for the Design of Catholic Nursing Education for the 21st Century on the UST campus Feb. 23-24.
The commission met to draft a conceptual plan for the UST nursing program that manifests the tradition of Catholic nursing education and service and the goal to prepare effective nurse
leaders. These nurse leaders will be trained to provide patient care focused on healing practices in the 21st century health care environment.
This special commission is composed of prominent nurse scholars in healing, recognized leaders in Catholic nursing education and scholars in the liberal arts, science, theology and philosophy. Commission dialogue was facilitated by Dr. Phyllis Beck Kritek, an internationally known nursing scholar. She is a former faculty member in the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at Harvard School of Public Health, a program she helped create. She is the author of Reflections on Healing: A Central Nursing Construct.
Four pillars are proposed as the foundation for curriculum development: the knowledge base of nursing as a professional discipline; learning as a mutual process of discovery; self-discovery and expansion of consciousness; and nursing as a healing ministry. The commission was charged to propose a vision, mission and philosophy for the school to guide curriculum development; a conceptual framework based on the integration of the four pillars; and a mapping of the programs at the baccalaureate and masters levels.
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