With faculty assistance, learners assess their motivations for learning and make periodic appraisal of their personal progress in relation to course standards and personal goals. Learners accept responsibility to continue inquiry and learning and seek opportunities to increase knowledge, skill, and clinical competence. Faculty establish objectives, select content, organize materials, design learning activities, utilize modern technology, and evaluate students' performance in ways that facilitate learning. Together, faculty and learners develop a greater understanding of the relationships among theory, research, and practice in nursing. A change of behavior, value, attitude, or thinking which endures over time indicates that learning has occurred.
Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems.
Nursing is a practice discipline utilizing nursing theory and research. As a discipline, nursing assists humans by using critical thinking in the nursing process to assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate. The essence of nursing is the caring for and nurturing humans in the performance of those activities contributing to health, recovery, or peaceful death. Baccalaureate Nursing Education , which combines courses in theory and practice with a multicultural perspective, prepares students to become professional nurse generalists, qualified to function at the beginning level of professional nursing practice. Students develop a knowledge base to understand and care for individuals and groups of persons who bring diverse needs to the health care system.