Nursing influences health and healing through relationship centered care. Shared understandings of health and illness are necessary for therapeutic nurse-client relationships. Baccalaureate nursing education develops the intellectual skills of critical thinking, analytic inquiry and problem solving which are essential to independent action, collaboration and decision making. Baccalaureate graduates are prepared to function as nursing care clinicians, health care managers, change agents, health advocates, teachers, counselors and leaders. Baccalaureate graduates must be responsible and accountable for their current and future practice.
Teaching facilitates the learning of essential knowledge, skills and roles.
Teaching is a cooperative, collaborative venture with the learner for the purpose of promoting competence. Nursing education is a transformative process for students and teachers and is a process of reciprocal accountability and responsibility. Both student and teacher share responsibility for the teaching and learning milieu. Through teaching-learning roles created with students, the teacher serves as a guide, role model, facilitator and coach. The student is aided in interpreting nursing science as well as biological, sociological, psychological and physical sciences.