Cedarville Magazine Fall 2022

BY THOMAS WHI TE NURSING PRACTICE GROUNDED IN BIBLICAL TRUTH “Cedarville University-trained nurses are amazing!” I hear it all the time. Medical professionals desire to hire our students; they know there is a difference in our nursing graduates. That’s why many students have multiple job offers before they ever walk across the graduation stage. But what is the difference? What makes a Cedarville-trained nurse so amazing? There are many answers to that question, but I want to explore three reasons that I think our nursing program is unique and among the best in the country. A HIGHER PURPOSE WITH A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW Generally, those who go into the nursing field have an innate desire to care for other people. God has designed them that way. Created with a passion to help others and equipped with God-given gifts, nurses embark upon a very difficult profession that requires them to give of themselves daily. Many nurses burn out because they give with no way of replenishing the well from which they draw. Cedarville University’s nursing program is unique because it teaches our students where to find the well of compassion to serve others. The desire, motivation, and reward for compassionate service find an endless reservoir of strength in our God and a biblical worldview. Our nurses realize that this world is broken. Sin entered the world in Genesis 3, which provides an explanation for the consequences of evil they see on a daily basis and the results of living in a fallen world. Without categories to understand evil, imagine the bewilderment of trying to explain or cope 2 | Cedarville Magazine