Choosing Your Path Professional nursing is a creative, caring, scientific, and scholarly process. It focuses on the health needs of humans and society, and assists individuals and society to achieve an optimal level of health.
Nursing is an independent as well as an interdependent helping profession.
It is committed to caring by promoting and maintaining health, preventing illness, and restoring and rehabilitating ill or injured clients throughout their lifespans. The role of the nurse is one that requires critical thinking, communication, independent judgments, and familiarity with social, political, cultural, and economic issues that affect health care. A level of authority commensurate with accountability for practice is an essential component of professional nursing. The baccalaureate-prepared nurse will have the skills and knowledge to contribute to and effectively provide leadership for current and future health care systems. The curriculum in the nursing program prepares students to become clinical generalists who are leaders, managers, and lifelong learners who integrate research findings into their nursing practice.