Program and Student Learning Outcomes: School of Nursing

Program Outcomes

• Prepare beginning professional nurse generalists as described by the essential competencies for baccalaureate nursing practice
• Develop an educational base for life-long learning
• Demonstrate/Develop an awareness of cultural diversity and its effect on self-care

 Student Learning Outcomes  

• Achieve a liberal education to serve as a solid base for providing the cornerstone for the practice and education of nurses
• Develop basic organizational and systems leadership for quality care and patient safety
• Demonstrate scholarship for evidence based practice and translate current evidence into practice
• Implement health care information technology in the management of patient care
• Define the current healthcare policy, finance and regulatory environments and how these entities influence the nature and functioning of the healthcare system and consideration for practice
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication and collaboration for improving patient health outcomes
• Demonstrate health promotion and disease prevention interventions at the individual and population level in order to improve population health
• Exhibit in practice professionalism and professional values that include altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity and social justice
• Practice as a baccalaureate nurse generalist with patients across the lifespan and across the continuum, while respecting the variations, complexity, and resource needed for care of patients.   

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