The College of Nursing encourages applications from qualified applicants of both sexes and from all cultural, racial, religious, ethnic, and age groups. The College of Nursing uses selective criteria for the admission of students. Limitations on enrollments are determined on the basis of availability of sufficient qualified faculty, laboratory and classroom facilities, and clinical teaching resources. Florida residents are given priority. We believe that professional nursing is a science and an art that provides holistic care aimed at assisting or empowering individuals, families and communities to achieve health.
Nursing is a discipline sanctioned by society that is responsive to societal needs.
We believe that nursing has and continues to build a body of scientific knowledge through systematic inquiry, creativity and critical thinking. Nurses use a systematic approach to assess, plan, treat and evaluate health status within the physical, psychosocial, economic, and spiritual domains. We believe that nurses interact with individuals, groups, families, and communities for the purposes of health promotion, education, disease prevention, illness care, and rehabilitation. Nurses assume multiple roles and act in collaboration with other health care disciplines to promote modification of the environment. We believe that environment encompasses all the internal and external influences affecting people.