The Faculty of Nursing is an integral part of the University of Jordan and its philosophy is in accord with the philosophy of the University.
The Baccalaureate program prepares nurses for the entry level to professional practice. The nursing curriculum includes courses that prepare students to provide safe, comprehensive, and collaborative nursing care in a variety of clinical settings, while the Master and Doctorate programs build upon those competencies developed during the process of professional practice. The graduate programs prepare professional nurses for leadership roles in education, research and clinical specialization.
It is the belief of the faculty members that health is a basic human right, a purposeful dynamic and adaptive response to maintain and promote a level of function and comfort within a social and cultural context. Nurses play an important role in assisting clients (individuals, families and communities) to maintain health status through disease prevention and health promotion services.
Nursing is a unique humanistic profession that aims at promoting, maintaining and restoring optimal levels of health and alleviating suffering of clients. Nursing involves caring and empowering clients to take responsibility for their own health throughout the life cycle.
The Faculty of Nursing believes that the client is a bio-psycho-social and spiritual human being in constant interaction with a changing environment. Every human being is a unique entity entitled to respect, care and support. Each has dignity, intrinsic values, freedom and responsibility for his/her own choice in seeking health care. Clients have the right to full accessible, affordable and holistic health services without discrimination.
The faculty believes that nursing education includes influencing students' behaviors through a teaching-learning process that integrates content and learning activities in an academic environment where the student is perceived as central to the learning process, which is promoted by mutual consideration and respect. The teaching-learning process requires a dynamic relationship in which students are considered to be active learners, capable of thinking critically, solving problems, and considering learning as a life- long process.
The graduates of the baccalaureate program obtain a basic preparation in nursing and have didactic and clinical experiences dealing with a variety of client health and illness needs across the life span in community-based, acute, and chronic care settings. Masters’ students expand skills and knowledge to become advanced practice nurses or administrators, actively identifying research problems and using research findings in practice. Doctoral students develop skills in theory development and in the conduct of original nursing research. The teaching-learning process best occurs in a climate of mutual respect wherein it is acknowledged that both students and faculty bring unique knowledge and experiences to learning. The sharing of this knowledge and experience encourages creative approaches to problem solving and a commitment to continued learning about the art and science of nursing.
Professional nursing practice is based on utilizing the nursing process as a framework through which nursing care is provided to help the client to attain, maintain, or regain on optimum level of health.
The environment of the client is the largest open system and consists of, but is not limited to, family, peer groups, culture, religion, geographical conditions, sociopolitical structures and society at large. The internal and external environments of client systems are constantly changing and influencing the system, and may result in alterations in health.
Most of the FoN members are not only active on campus -through formal and informal teaching, research, and public seminars- but also in the local community and abroad through links and collaboration with national and international institutions. Many members of the FoN are involved in vital committees both at the university and the national level. In addition, some are significant members of international organizations and reviewers for nursing journals. Service to the community is one of the priorities of the FoN. Most faculty members give lectures, supervise workshops, and advise various groups and institutions, both in the public and private sectors. Over the years, the FoN has played a crucial role in terms of community service activities and post-registration education through specialized nursing courses. In addition, several members from the FoN have participated in establishing new schools of nursing inside Jordan and in some of the neighboring countries. The majority of FoN members are also active participants in conferences, workshops, and symposia locally and abroad, and most take advantage of the various research and exchange programs between the University and other international academic and health institutions.