The College of Nursing provides excellent educational programs for students entering the nursing profession and nurses seeking advance education. Because nursing is a research-based discipline, faculty participate in generating, disseminating, and using research findings for education and practice. Faculty believe that service includes participation in academic, professional, and community organizations, and practice of the discipline. The concept of person includes individuals, families, groups, and communities. Persons are of intrinsic value and dignity, and worthy of respect, because of their shared and unique physical, emotional, intellectual, social, cultural, and spiritual characteristics.
People have the ability to think critically and to choose and value.
People are self-determining and each person functions interdependently with other individuals, families, groups, and communities joined together because of their shared values and needs. Health, as perceived by the person, is the integration of physical, emotional, intellectual, social, cultural, and spiritual well-being that enables the performance deemed necessary and desirable to maintain existence in the environment. Health is affected throughout the life cycle by genetic and environmental factors, choices about health patterns, and by the ability of persons to meet their health care needs and to access health care. Nursing is an art and a science through which nurses provide caring assistance to persons within society. Nurses seek to promote, restore, and maintain health, and when death is imminent, to provide support that will allow the person to die with dignity.