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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.