We believe that health care professionals facilitate adaptation to those stressors. We believe that nursing is an interpersonal process giving attention to the full range of human experience without restriction. Nursing attends to human vulnerability by providing comfort, counsel, education, and care. Nursing fosters individual, family, and community awareness of risk factors, healthy lifestyles, and illness prevention and management. Various roles and functions are necessary as nursing interacts with other disciplines in providing health care to individuals, groups, and populations.
Nursing is both an academic and a practice oriented discipline.
Nursing is supported by a sound knowledge base derived from nursing theory as well as from the biological and social sciences. The continuous intellectual component of all nursing experiences necessitates a broad scientific foundation. The central metaphor of education is growth. Education is a dynamic, interactive process best accomplished in a caring environment that facilitates growth by nurturing, stimulating, and challenging the student and faculty. Learning activities are created in which students can learn basic knowledge, skills, and competencies, and grow from novice learners to beginning professional nurses.