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Liberal and Nursing Education
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Successful integration of liberal education and nursing education provides graduates with knowledge of human cultures, including spiritual beliefs, and the physical and natural worlds supporting an inclusive approach to practice. The study of history, fine arts, literature, and languages are important building blocks for developing cultural competence and clinical reasoning. Furthermore, the integration of concepts from behavioral, biological, and natural sciences throughout the nursing curriculum promotes the understanding of self and others and contributes to safe, quality care. The integration of concepts from the arts and sciences provides the foundation for understanding health as well as disease processes, and forms the basis for clinical reasoning. As noted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the sciences are a critical aspect of liberal education for nurses. Sciences that have clinical relevance are especially important to the profession of nursing to ensure that graduates have the ability to keep pace with changes driven by research and new technologies (Carnegie Foundation, in press).
A liberal education for nurses forms the basis for intellectual and practical abilities for nursing practice as well as for engagement with the larger community, both locally and globally. Skills of inquiry, analysis, critical thinking, and communication in a variety of modes, including the written and spoken word, prepare baccalaureate graduates to involve others in the common good through use of information technologies, team work, and interprofessional problem solving. Liberal education, including the study of a second language, facilitates the development of an appreciation for cultural and ethnic diversity.
Strong emphasis on the development of a personal values system that includes the capacity to make and act upon ethical judgments is a hallmark of liberal education. Students educated in a liberal education environment are encouraged to pursue
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meaningful personal and professional goals as well as to commit to honesty in relationships and the search for truth. The development of leadership skills and acceptance of responsibility to promote social justice are expected outcomes of a liberal education.
Liberal education allows the graduate to form the values and standards needed to address twentyfirst century changes in technology, demographics, and economics. These trends include an aging population, diverse family and community structures, and increasing global interdependence, as well as economic and political changes in the United States healthcare system. Liberal education provides the baccalaureate graduate with the ability to integrate knowledge, skills, and values from the arts and sciences to provide humanistic, safe quality care; to act as advocates for individuals, families, groups, communities, and/or populations; and to promote social justice. Liberally educated graduates practice from a foundation of professional values and standards.