Caring, Integrity, Human Dignity, Autonomy, Excellence, Altruism, Communication and Collaboration, [responsibility] Life-Long Learning, Student-Centered Learning – are critical to fostering a culture of excellence in nursing.
Every human being is unique, dynamic, autonomous, multidimensional, and an adaptive system with universal and distinctive needs, who requires nursing services. Health is a dynamic and relative continuum of experiences impacting one's sense of well-being. Health is focused on all aspects of the multidimensional human across the life span.
Advancing the practice and science of nursing positively influences the health of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations within the commonwealth, the nation and the world. The environment is the setting or context of everyday life.
Dimensions of the environment include but are not limited to: relationships, beliefs, customs, political, economic, psychological and developmental aspects of ones' world. Nursing is the informed and holistic caring of human beings through the creative use of knowledge and therapeutic intervention activities.
Nursing education is a dynamic, student-centered process that when successfully implemented provides a nurturing environment that fosters cognitive, psychomotor and affective development; a deference for professional collegiality and life-long learning; and an understanding of the intractable importance that the nursing profession holds within our society.
The organizing framework for the SON is derived from the faculty determined values and philosophy and is comprised of five elemental components. These components are professional identity, values, capacity, process, and sustainability. The components are dynamic, reciprocal, and strengthen each other toward the