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NURSING AS A CALLING
In a fallen world in which pain and suffering are an everyday
reality for many people, the healing professions provide an avenue of
faithful service to the Healer and Redeemer of all things. Covenant
equips students called to nursing with essential foundations in the
heart and mind.
We believe that God calls each of His children to specific areas of
service in his Kingdom and we have seen God faithfully use Covenant to
bring together gifts, desires and opportunities in students’ lives to
call them to the nursing profession. Contemporary nursing is a demanding
multifaceted calling that utilizes a wide variety of personal
characteristics and technical skills such as: compassion, discernment in
understanding complex human physical, mental, emotional and spiritual
needs, knowledge of disease processes and healing countermeasures,
wisdom in approaching ethical issues in modern healthcare, ability to
connect quickly and meaningfully with others, perseverance, attention
to detail, the ability to quickly learn new methods and new
technologies, flexibility in the face of changing health care delivery
models, and the ability to responsibly exercise authority and to work
under authority.
WHY START YOUR NURSING PROGRAM AT COVENANT?
To help students meet the demands of this challenging profession, we
have developed programs which include the formative and foundational
components of a Covenant education that challenges students to develop
an integrated framework for thought and life, for faithfully
understanding and pursuing God’s callings in every aspect of their
lives. Students and faculty work together to explore of the implications
of Christ’s pre-eminence over all creation in terms of specific academic
disciplines as well as in more the more general terms of theology,
philosophy, worldviews and the significance of individual human identity
in Christ.
The work of the faculty involved in the
program includes both a general mentoring role in helping students be
discerning concerning their calling to be nurses and the responsibility
to equip students for such a calling through specific course work. The
specific course of study at Covenant includes the college’s Core
curriculum and concentrated work in biological and social sciences. The
specific course work in nursing may differ depending on the program
chosen by the students through our partner institutions.
There are currently two primary
nursing options at Covenant, the [Dual
Degree Option] and the [Two-Year Transfer
Option].
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