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The College of Nursing and Health supports Wright State University's mission of teaching,
research, and service.
The faculty believe in the acquisition of knowledge from the past and present, the exploration
for new knowledge, the advancement of lifelong learning, and the search for basic truth. The
faculty share the commitment of the University to respond to issues affecting the culturally,
racially, and ethnically diverse metropolitan community.
The faculty believe the human community consists of individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and communities. An individual is a dynamic being whose body, mind, and
spirit develop over the life span. Individuals have inherent worth, dignity and the
potential to be discerning, caring, creative, and rational beings within the context of
their developmental stage and life situation. Individuals make choices which create the
self and provide opportunity for change. Individuals are members of families who may serve
as cohesive, dynamic support systems providing nurturance and protection as well as
transmitting cultural values. Individuals form groups, organizations, and communities to
share responsibilities and meet human needs. Culturally diverse, vulnerable and underserved
groups require shared responsibility by all humanity for communication, understanding, and
peaceful coexistence.
Individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities affect and are affected by their
interactions with the environment. The environment is the context of human existence; the
quality affects the human potential for health. The human community has a responsibility to
protect, conserve, and promote the health of the environment.
Health and illness are dynamic coexisting processes which influence balance, harmony, and
vitality. Both processes depend on environmentally affected and genetic capabilities,
initiative, knowledge, individual choice, and value judgments. Wellbeing is the integration
of the individual who can function in society and attain satisfying relationships with self
and others and seek or find meaning in existence.
The discipline of nursing integrates the arts, esthetics, sciences, and caring. Professional
nursing is grounded in liberal arts education and requires knowledge in nursing, the other
sciences, arts, and the humanities. Nursing's social mandate is to promote health, prevent
disease and disability, and care for those who are ill or dying. Professional nurses use
critical thinking and methods of scientific inquiry to generate new knowledge, analyze data,
recognize patterns, establish priorities, and apply therapeutic nursing interventions.
Professional nurses function autonomously as well as collaboratively with clients and other
professionals within a multifaceted health care system providing leadership for change as
needed.
Nursing education is an interactive teaching-learning process within a collegial and
interdisciplinary environment. Education facilitates critical thinking and inquiry, ethical
insight, caring, communication, creativity, an appreciation of the past, sensitivity to
societal diversity, and professional competence. Teaching includes assessing, advising,
guiding, facilitating, modeling, sharing knowledge, and evaluating. Learning is a lifelong
self-directed process of change that includes synthesizing knowledge, skills and values
necessary for expanding the dimensions of the individual.
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