This service may be provided autonomously or collaboratively with other health professionals. Nursing is accountable to society for the quality of care provided, health planning, conducting, interpreting, and applying research results, and the evaluation and regulation of nursing practice. Learning is a dynamic, lifelong journey which produces change in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. Faculty adhere to being diverse, cohesive, sharing ideas, learning from and helping each other, creative, and enjoying a growing sense of freedom to pursue new approaches. Faculty facilitate learning activity by creating a milieu which fosters learning through diverse, creative, and flexible learning experiences.
Faculty promote learning when they model learning and professional behaviors.
Learning occurs most readily when the learners actively participate in establishing realistic goals, based on an assessment of their own strengths and weaknesses, and critically evaluate their progress toward achievement of these goals. A professional education based on a foundational core of liberal arts and sciences enhances the ability to think critically and to make ethical and humanistic judgements and implement subsequent actions. Baccalaureate nursing education prepares the learner to provide holistic and humane nursing care to individuals, groups, families, and communities at the entry level. It enables the graduate to coordinate health care activities as well as utilize the skills of leadership and management in a variety of health care settings. Baccalaureate nursing education also provides the graduate with the ability to apply research findings to nursing practice and facilitate the process of change.