The BSN program seeks to prepare nurses to meet the health needs of the community and clients across the lifespan through the use of evidence-based practice and applications of knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to deliver safe, competent, and high quality client-centered care in complex healthcare environments. The graduate of the BSN Program possesses the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to:

• Synthesize knowledge from relevant theories, concepts, and principles from nursing, social, behavioral, and natural sciences as a basis for making professional nursing judgments.
• Integrate major concepts and theories delineated in the theoretical framework into the practice of nursing.
• Use the nursing process to assist persons, families, and communities to achieve their maximum health potential.
• Use opportunities to promote and maintain health potential and safety for individuals in a variety of primary, secondary, and tertiary care settings.
• Assume leadership roles in coordinating nursing strategies that enhance the quality of nursing practices.
• Collaborate with nurses, other health professionals, clients, families, and community groups in providing health care services.