Brief history
The School of Nursing, established in 1905, was the first in a group of schools that in 1961 became Loma Linda University. In 1949 the School of Nursing became a college-based program granting the baccalaureate degree. In 1970 the associate in science degree program was started as an integral part of the School. The first master's degrees in nursing were granted in 1957.
Accreditation
The School of Nursing received its first accreditation by the National League for Nursing (NLN) in 1951; and currently the NLN accredits the bachelor of science and master of science degree programs. The most recent NLN accreditation was in 1999. The School has California Board of Registered Nursing approval from 2003 to 2008. The School of Nursing is currently accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education until 2009.
Mission statement
The mission of the School of Nursing, in accord with the comprehensive mission of Loma Linda University, is the education of professional nurses who are dedicated to excellence in nursing science. Individuals from diverse ethnic, cultural, and racial backgrounds are encouraged to embrace opportunities for lifelong growth and satisfaction from a career committed to health care. Baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs contribute to the development of expert clinicians, educators, administrators and researchers who benefit society by providing and improving delivery of whole-person care to clients -- individuals, families, groups, and communities. Committed to Christian service and distinctive Seventh-day Adventist ideals, the school seeks to reflect God's love through its teaching and healing ministry.
Our students
Our primary responsibility is the education of students, who come from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, enabling them to acquire the foundation of knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, and behaviors appropriate for their chosen academic or health-care ministry. We nurture their intellectual curiosity. We facilitate their development into active, independent learners. We provide continuing educational opportunities for our alumni and professional peers. We encourage a personal Christian faith that permeates the lives of those we educate.
Our faculty, staff, and administration
We respect our faculty, staff, and administration who through education, research, and service create a stimulating learning environment for our students. They contribute to the development of new understandings in their chosen fields. They demonstrate both Christian values and competence in their scholarship and professions.
Our patients and others we serve
We provide humanitarian service through people, programs, and facilities. We promote healthful living and respond to the therapeutic and rehabilitative needs of people. We seek to enhance the quality of life for individuals in local, regional, national, and world communities.
School's philosophy
In harmony with Loma Linda University and the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the School of Nursing believes that the aim of education and health care is the development of wholeness in those served. Individuals, created to reflect the wholeness of God's character, have been impaired by the entrance of sin, disease, and death. God's purpose is the restoration of each person to the original state at Creation. God works through human agencies to make individuals whole.
Nursing functions are to assist individuals and societal groups to attain their highest potential of wholeness. Through a variety of roles, nurses put into practice a body of knowledge and a repertoire of skills to assist the human system with health problems. The School of Nursing provides an environment in which the student and faculty may grow in professional competence and Christian grace.
In support of the philosophy, mission, and values of Loma Linda University and the philosophy, mission and values of the School of Nursing, the faculty affirms the following beliefs:
Honor society
Through the nursing honor society, which was established in 1973, the School of Nursing further fosters academic excellence and the pursuit of Christian graces. In 1975, in recognition of the School's aim of excellence, this honor society, by vote of the national society, became an official chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, the international honor society for nursing. Installation of the Loma Linda University School of Nursing's Gamma Alpha Chapter occurred on April 11, 1976. Students and other nurses of excellence, upon meeting the established criteria, become members by invitation.
Professional memberships
LLUSN holds agency memberships and actively participates in the following major professional organizations: American Association of Colleges of Nursing, National League for Nursing, and Western Institute for Nursing.
Contact LLUSN
Loma Linda University School of Nursing
West Hall, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA
Telephone: (909) 558-4923, (800) 422-4558
Fax: (909) 558-4134
Email LLUSN Dean's office
Last Revised: Wed, Aug 29, 2007
