“Nursing is essentially concerned with the care of other vulnerable human beings and since nursing aims precisely at the essential integration of expert activity (knowledge and skills) and of care (virtue). Nurse training must focus on the development and promotion of the actions through which care is provided” (Vanlaere & Gastmans, 2007). For nurses to achieve this goal, nursing education must have a broader base of scientific and humanistic knowledge because nursing is both an art and a science. In addition to the quote above, “when nursing courses draw on the humanities as well as the sciences, the heuristic basis for clinical care and problem solving for nurses is broadened” (Vanlaere & Gastmans,