Building upon baccalaureate preparation, master's education for advanced nursing practice incorporates skills and knowledge integral to effectively managing health care of individuals and specific populations. Nurses in advanced practice engage in independent and collaborative practice to improve access to appropriate services and achieve high quality, fiscally responsible outcomes. The faculty believes that health reflects a dynamic dimension of physical, mental, spiritual, and social well-being, and reflects the degree to which persons maximize their potential when experiencing disease or infirmity. By assuming responsibility for health and exercising the right of accessibility to health care, individuals have the ability to exert a measure of control over their lives and health. The faculty believes that nursing meets a societal need as it fulfills its mission of assisting persons throughout the development and adaptation processes while maintaining a commitment to primary prevention.
Nursing is viewed as a practice discipline encompassing both art and science.
The faculty values universal access to health care. We believe that the profession of nursing is an integral part of the health care system that makes provision for effective utilization of human, scientific, technological, and economic resources in the delivery of health care. Nurses intervene with persons across the lifespan through primary, secondary and tertiary prevention behaviors. Nurses use the tools of communication, caring, research, critical thinking, and professionalism to promote health, prevent disease in persons and their environments, and care for persons across the lifespan in various stages of illness. The increasing complexity of the health care system requires that nursing assume responsibility for assuring that the values of caring and concern for human beings have primacy in the decision-making process.