Through outreach we engage in both learning and service, developing partnerships designed to create new knowledge and provide health care and education to meet the expressed needs of the community including underserved and vulnerable populations. Philosophy We, the Faculty, believe that teaching is a collaborative art in which inquiry, dialogue and evolution of thought become the medium and the processes by which students and faculty approach an understanding of human beings in health and illness. In our learning community, emphasis is placed on diversity of thought and creativity, multicultural perspectives, and instructional strategies which incorporate new ways of acquiring and exchanging knowledge. The Faculty hold as core values those activities of scholarship, teaching, practice and academic outreach which allow nursing to take a leadership role in designing and providing care in the changing demographics of our local communities and our nation. We, the Faculty believe that the discipline of nursing, i.e., nursing knowledge, scholarship and research, is foundational to nursing practice as is knowledge from other disciplines and fields.
Nursing practice consists of four essential processes - thinking, relating, managing and respecting.