VALUES STATEMENT
As a program within the Rio Hondo College teaching/learning community, we come together and strive to meet the needs, aspirations, and goals of our changing student population and health care needs of the community. Rio Hondo College nursing faculty values the following: 

· Quality teaching and learning
· Caring and advocacy as the essence of nursing and the most central and unifying focus for nursing practice
· Respect and care for others with gentleness and dignity
· Intrinsic integrity, honesty, and personal responsibility
· An appreciation of and support for equity and diversity among individuals
· The pursuit of self sensitivity and understanding
· Efficient and effective use of resources
· High quality care
· Collaboration and teamwork
· Professional development of the nurse through life long learning
· Maintenance of legal/ethical standards of practice
· Partnership with the community 

GOALS

· Provide quality teaching and learning
· Support caring and advocacy as the essence of nursing
· Provide an atmosphere that encourages respect and care for others with gentleness and dignity
· Support integrity, honesty and personal responsibility
· Encourage and support equity and diversity among individuals
· Provide an atmosphere that encourages the pursuit of self sensitivity and understanding
· Encourage the efficient and effective use of resources
· Support high quality care
· Cultivate collaboration and teamwork
· Encourage effective communication
· Support an appreciation of life long learning
· Promote and maintain legal/ethical standards of practice