The nursing program provides critical thinking skills to assist professional nurses to become independent and interdependent practitioners who make considered judgements and act with responsibility. The unique function of the professional nurse is to assist individuals and groups to foster health and health seeking behaviors. Through the use of the nursing process, students learn to assess, plan, intervene, and evaluate individuals', families', communities', and neighborhoods' responses to actual or potential health problems. Health is a dynamic state of being which is formed by the individual's holistic responses to their environment. The optimum state of health is unique for each individual throughout the lifespan and is affected by the bio-psychological, spiritual, and sociocultural influences on both one's internal and external environment.
Human life has inherent value and dignity.
Each individual is a unique, holistic being and an integral part of a family, the community, and sociocultural systems. Human beings are in continual interaction with the environment across the lifespan. Each human being has an internal environment consisting of all processes inherent to self. This internal environment is in a consistent state of flux with the external environment, which encompasses interactions with people, places, objects, and processes. Cultural values, beliefs, morals, and experiences affect human beings' adaptation to the environment.