Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital School of Nursing

Mission Statement

Mission: Geisinger Lewistown Hospital School of Nursing exists to provide quality nursing education. We seek to engage a diverse group of students in a manner that enables our graduates to become leaders in providing competent and safe bedside nursing care across the continuum and throughout the surrounding community. Philosophy: Nursing is a dynamic process of caring based on a theory-guided evidence-based body of knowledge and established standards of professional practice. The focus of nursing practice is based on the patient-family's level of functioning preferences values and needs related to their diverse physiological psychological socio-cultural developmental and spiritual dimensions which promote maintain and restore wellness. Education is a lifelong process that fosters the development of critical thinking so that individuals can respond to the health care of people in a variety of settings with the concept of caring deeply rooted in its history.