The faculty strives to provide a supportive and challenging learning environment while using a variety of instructional strategies to facilitate critical thinking and problem solving. These skills enable our graduates to make decisions and take actions that are consistent with standards for nursing practice and licensing laws. Faculty recognizes its obligation to the community to prepare our students to provide quality-nursing care. It also includes the sub-concepts of inquiry, caring, and practice. The concepts and sub-concepts are defined as follows.
Person incorporates the concepts of learner, self, individual, families, groups, and communities.
Persons are holistic, complex biological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual beings. Each individual is unique and possesses inherent dignity, worth, and the right to self-determination. While human responses are individualized, many can be generalized and predicted. Patients seeking health care have unique characteristics, needs, and abilities. Patients have a right to knowledge about health care concerns and issues that may affect their lives and to take an active role in health care decision making.