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DACC Nursing Program Student Handbook 2012-2013APPENDIX - ACore Values (CV) of the DACC Nursing ProgramCaring (CV1): Caring is the vehicle through which nurses interact with individual clients and familiesto give help through implementation of effective nursing interventions and to find meaning in theirpersonal experiences. Caring allows the nurse to help patients cope and involves personal concern forpersons, events, projects and things. (Benner & Wrubel, 1989)Nursing Practice (CV2): "Practice of nursing" means assisting individuals, families or communities inmaintaining or attaining optimal health, assessing and implementing a plan of care to accomplishdefined goals and evaluating responses to care and treatment. Practice is based on specializedknowledge, judgment and nursing skills acquired through educational preparation in nursing and in thebiological, physical, social and behavioral sciences. This includes, but is not limited to:1. Initiating and maintaining comfort measures;2. Promoting and supporting optimal human functions and responses;3. Establishing an environment conducive to well-being or to the support of a dignified death;4. Collaborating on the health care regimen;5. Administering medications and performing treatments prescribed by a person authorized inthis state or in any other state in the United States to prescribe them;6. Recording and reporting nursing observations, assessments, interventions and responses tohealth care;7. Providing counseling and health teaching;8. Delegating and supervising nursing interventions that may be performed safely by others andare not in conflict with the Nursing Practice Act; and9. Maintaining accountability for safe and effective nursing care (State of NM BON, 2003)Health and Wellness (CV3): Health is a state that can be assessed and the experience of completephysical, mental and social well-being. It is not merely the absence of disease and illness. Illness is theexperience of a loss or dysfunction caused by the disease that can be assessed at the physical level.(Benner & Wrubel, 1989)Holism (CV4): ―The human person is a combination of unique and complex attributes, values andbehaviors, influenced by the individual‘s environment, social norms, cultural values, physicalcharacteristics, experiences, religious beliefs and practices, and moral and ethical constructs.‖ (NLN,2010)Nursing Education (CV5): Nursing education and teaching strategies are centered on adult learningtheory. The strategies used incorporate the principles of life-long learning, analysis of experience, andthe need for self-direction (Knowles, 1978). Concepts of learning are derived from Benner‘s novice toexpert model (Benner, 2001). Assessment of learning includes the principles of Bloom‘s taxonomy(Bloom, 1956). Through these processes, the graduate will demonstrate advanced beginner competencein the roles of provider, educator, advocate, collaborator and leader. Six core essential components of39 | P a g e