Nursing is both an art
and science focused on facilitating the well being of others. As
an art, nursing involves the implementation and refinement of strategies
to promote well being. As a science based on sound physiological,
psycho-social and behavioral theories, it employs critical thinking
in decision making skills, identifies questions to be investigated
and builds the knowledge base for nursing practice by systematic
inquiry. It is this integration of art and science that separates
nursing from other academic disciplines. Neither aspect of the practice
is static but rather a dynamic process that responds to the environment.
Faculty in a school of nursing are entrusted with the responsibility
of communicating these attributes and skills to their students.
Such a responsibility requires faculty not only to didactically
profess its tenets, but more importantly to embrace, modify, refine
and learn by practicing. The faculty practice plan of the School
of Nursing allows that process to occur.
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