The mission of the Faculty of Nursing at Philadelphia University is to:

• Educate nurses who will become renowned for excellence in practice and so improving the quality of care in Jordan.
• Raise the standard of the nursing profession through providing accredited educational programs.
• Improve the nursing image.
• Prepare nurses leaders who contribute to the development of emerging health care system.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Graduates of this program are prepared as professional nurses who are able to function in a changing and diversified health care settings.

Graduates will be able to:

• Acquire knowledge, skills, competencies and values essential to the practice of professional nursing.
• Utilize cognitive, psychomotor and affective abilities to provide nursing care to individuals, families, groups and communities.
• Provide safe, competency based nursing practice at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
• Use the nursing process as a systematic method of assisting clients to attain, regain and maintain a maximum functional health status.
• Provide a knowledge base necessary for their expanded role as leaders, communicators, educators and researchers.