In addition, critical to this School of Nursing are issues of professional nursing education, adult education, and distance education. The major concepts addressed within this philosophy are interacting and interdependent. Humans are composed of spiritual, physiological, psychological, developmental, and sociocultural variables. Humans possess inherent worth and dignity, and the capacity to learn, make decisions, affect change, and assume responsibility.
Humans have the innate potential for growth and development toward self-actualization.
Humans are a highly diversified group of individuals with widely differing preferences, needs, backgrounds, and skills. Human self-concept moves from dependency to independency as individuals grow in responsibilities, experience, and confidence. Environment is defined as all internal and external factors or influences that affect Humans. There is an interaction between internal and external environmental factors. The Environment consists of a variety of contexts that are social, physical, and perceived in nature.