Our mission is to educate nurses who are caring, informed, responsible, creative and articulate decision makers who critically think, appreciate diversity, demonstrate high standards of professional character and are professionally competitive. The faculty of the Division of Nursing believe that humans are unique, holistic and multidimensional beings who are valued in their uniqueness and are deserving of respects and dignity. Human beings have a right to self-determination and to make informed choices. They also have a right to competent advocacy when their abilities for self-determination and choice are impaired. We believe that health is the dynamic state of interactions among mind, body and spirit.
Health exists in any of many conditions and is uniquely experienced by each person.
Nurses use the many ways of knowing to enable persons to bring body, mind and spirit into harmonious relationship. We believe that caring is the essence of nursing. Professional nurse caring embraces the nurse's empathy for and connection with the patient, the family and the community, and must emanate from a foundation of knowledge, competence and confidence. We believe that the environment is the biological, physiological, personal, spiritual, social, cultural and political context in which persons experience health. The environment is not a separate entity but an integral component of the human experience.