1. The second component is values. Values are identified as a set of beliefs that guide behaviors, attitudes and moral judgement. Values may be expressed as either personal or professional. Personal values are beliefs cultivated from subjective and objective environmental interactions with familial, group, community, and population sources. Professional values are those beliefs cultivated through reasoning, observation, and experience with nurses and other healthcare members.
  2. The associate of applied science graduate possesses an understanding of the potential impact of their personal values on care delivery. The incorporation of professional values in practice may assist individuals and families to increase their mindfulness of any values that may influence lifestyle or healthcare decisions.
  3. The baccalaureate graduate has a broader, and more complex value perspective that individuals, families, groups, and populations can use to facilitate the re-prioritization of their value conflicts that would ultimately enable a reconciliation between said values and health care behaviors.
  4. The doctoral graduate is prepared as the nursing terminal degree that encompasses all professional role expectations in nursing. Personal values are applied when evaluating and designing health care systems, as well as leading the change of health care systems in response to research translation, population health, and needed policy development.
  5. The third component is capacity. Capacity is identified as the acquisition of personal, procedural and propositional knowledge; whereby, personal knowledge parallels personal experience, personal preferences, and autobiographical facts. Procedural knowledge refers to skills learning. Propositional knowledge refers to general truth claims about the world and how we know it. To aide knowledge generation our curriculum provides a foundation of liberal arts and sciences that facilitates developing an appreciation of each person's interaction with the environment [internal, external or created] while enhancing the student's ability to think critically, reason logically, and communicate effectively:
  6. The associate of applied science degree core focuses on liberal arts and sciences, which include courses in English, algebra, anatomy & physiology, chemistry, and psychology. Content provides basic knowledge that is applied to the care of individuals in acute care and long-term settings.
  7. The baccalaureate general education core is expanded to provide a more in-depth science basis and global view of society. These courses include physical sciences, sociology, world