Mutual goal setting with individuals and groups requires nurses use of critical thinking to evaluate the individuals knowledge base, physical abilities and behavioral responses in the creative use of resources to assist individuals and groups to desired outcomes. TNI include education, emotional support, advocacy, collaborative treatments, nursing interventions, and preventive measures. Critical thinking is an intellectually disciplined process of reflective and reasoned thinking and is used to guide belief and action. Critical thinking incorporates scientific reasoning and includes nursing process, decision making and reasoning in controversial issues. Critical thinking occurs within a variety of settings in the health care system and the profession of nursing.
Service is a motivating force by which the nurse provides care that promotes the welfare of others.
Service includes identifying a need, recognizing professional skills to resolve the need and implementing those nursing skills to fulfill the need. Service in nursing requires dedication to the values of the profession. The WJC graduate provides care which is reflective of professional values and ideals of Christian service. Professionalism is personal identify and commitment to nursing. The nursing professional assumes responsibility for the quality of nursing care by utilizing a recognized body of liberal and professional knowledge, providing services to society, demonstrating accountability and autonomy, and upholding ethical standards.