Health care is a collaborative effort of interdependent professions and consumer to reach identified goals of wellness. The consumer engaging the services of a professional health care provider assumes the role of client. We believe that professional nursing provides an essential service to society in the area of health care. The phenomena of concern, the core of nursing practice, is the human responses to actual or potential health problems throughout the life span. The goal of nursing is to use nurturative, generative or protective actions that facilitate the attainment of optimal health by the individual regardless of position on the health continuum.
Nursing is responsible and accountable for the unique service provided by nurses.
The professional nurse is committed to a lifelong goal of self-directed learning born of the awareness that nursing is a dynamic profession in which nursing knowledge and related scientific and behavioral knowledge expands and changes. The professional nurse utilizes critical thinking in fulfilling the responsibility of evaluating and using the knowledge resulting from nursing research, of generating researchable questions within the nursing discipline, and of delivering care within the framework of the nursing process. Nurses have a collaborative responsibility with other health care professionals to provide quality health care and to optimize the functioning of the health care delivery system. The faculty believe that learning is a lifelong process of change. Optimal learning occurs when the environment is appropriate for the lesson, supportive to the learner, and allows the learner to proceed from the simple to the complex.