The faculty contribute to the nursing profession and to meeting the health needs of the metropolitan community and the Commonwealth of Kentucky through teaching, research, and service. The faculty hold the following beliefs about person, environment, health, nursing, teaching-learning and nursing education. The person is in constant, mutual interaction with the environment, affecting the environment and being affected by it. Individuals are always in transition and are free agents whose behaviors reflect self-chosen values and ethical decisions. Individuals have the right to make free choices and are responsible for these choices.
Environment is both internal and external to the individual, family, group, aggregate or community.
Society, as a component of the environment, is a social system composed of individuals, families, aggregates, groups and communities from diverse cultures. The purposes of a society are to enculturate, to educate, to promote optimal development, and to protect its members. Members of society influence and are influenced by the society in which they live. A democratic society creates an environment in which human rights, diverse beliefs, and goals are respected. The dynamic and increasingly complex nature of a global society influences all aspects of the environment.