Since environment influences the health and well being of humanity, we recognize our collective responsibility to strive toward an environmentally better world. A responsible society provides a health care system that enables individuals to function at their highest level. Nursing meets the actual and potential needs of humanity by assisting a diverse, multicultural population to attain, maintain, and retain optimum health. Nursing is both a science and an art, which focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of human responses. Humanistic nursing integrates theory and practice within a framework of ethical decision-making.
Nursing provides health care for individuals, families, and communities.
Central to professional practice are caring, interpersonal communication, and nursing therapeutics. We believe that nursing is a social contract grounded in the profession's code of ethics and requires a life-long professional commitment. Baccalaureate nursing education is based on liberal arts and sciences. This foundation distinguishes baccalaureate nurses by preparing them to communicate, evaluate, and provide humanistic health care. Professional nursing education includes nursing's scientific body of knowledge, which is augmented by the findings of nursing research.