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Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Nursing as an academic discipline is a distinctive branch of human knowledge fundamental to nursing practice, nursing education, and nursing administration, and to the continuous development of the profession. The distinctive perspective of nursing includes a focus on the metaparadigm concepts of persons, environment, and nursing. The specific conceptual focus within the Bolton School is the health-seeking mechanisms and behaviors of human beings. Some of those mechanisms and behaviors are innate; others are learned or developed and may be subject to the influence of nurses' knowledgeable ministrations. The body of nursing knowledge is continuously advanced, structured, and restructured as a consequence of a range of methods including scientific inquiry, philosophic inquiry, historical inquiry, and clinical evaluation.
--from the 1993-95 CWRU General Bulletin, p. 488
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