The continuing education program offers updates for practicing nurses committed to lifelong learning. The health science minor offers nursing and other professional students knowledge and skills to promote health, prevent disease, and protect the environment which they can apply within their respective disciplines to promote health and improve the quality of life for the public. The faculty believe that human beings are dynamic, multidimensional, unique, maturational, and autonomous. Health is an individually defined, multidimensional, dynamic, and valued way of being in the environment. Human beings are influenced by and responsive to their environments and can choose to alter their internal and external environments to impact their health, function, and quality of life.
Nursing responds to and interacts with human beings and their environments to promote health.
Nursing, expressed as a professional way of caring, uses both art and science to address all dimensions of the human being by applying research and theories. Nursing serves as an intentional catalyst for change to promote health in evolving environments through education, leadership, as well as direct and indirect clinical interventions. Expect faculty to engage in multiple dimensions of scholarship, which includes discovery, integration, application, and teaching to improve nursing and health care. Enable students to achieve knowledge, skills, and values consistent with national nursing standards. Facillitate interactive educational experiences designed to foster critical thinking and lifelong learning.