A major goal of professional nursing is to assist persons to achieve optimal health. Professional nursing is both an art and a science. The art of nursing is providing a caring human service which promotes health behaviors that modify environments to reduce threats to the quality of life. Nursing science is the evolving body of knowledge which, when applied to practice with persons, results in health promotion, disease prevention, assistive care, rehabilitation, and supportive care. Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor competencies in nursing require both application and synthesis of theoretical and empirical knowledge through the use of nursing processes as a unifying element, and the responsible and humanizing use of resources.
Nursing care is provided within a complex health care system.
This service may be provided autonomously or collaboratively with other health professionals. Nursing is accountable to society for the quality of care provided, health planning, conducting, interpreting, and applying research results, and the evaluation and regulation of nursing practice. Learning is a dynamic, lifelong journey which produces change in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. Faculty adhere to being diverse, cohesive, sharing ideas, learning from and helping each other, creative, and enjoying a growing sense of freedom to pursue new approaches. Faculty facilitate learning activity by creating a milieu which fosters learning through diverse, creative, and flexible learning experiences.