In this program, students will:

• Gain a liberal education for Baccalaureate Generalist nursing practice, with knowledge from biological, behavioral, social, and nursing sciences
• Evaluate and provide safe, high-quality health care
• Learn to make clinical judgments based on knowledge and evidence, and developed through the process of clinical reasoning
• Participate in quality and patient safety initiatives that impact patient care
• Gain clinical experience in a variety of settings, including extended care facilities, acute-care hospitals, day care centers, visiting nurses associations, and local community clinics
• Learn from faculty who are active professionals, have received state and national recognition, and hold doctoral degrees or are certified nurse practitioners
• Have opportunities to study abroad
• Use computer information management systems and patient care technology to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of patient care
• Understand health care policy, finance, and regulatory environments
• Improve collaboration and communication skills and understand how these skills improve patient outcomes
• Learn in five state-of-the-art nursing labs and high-fidelity simulation labs
• Study clinical prevention and population health
• Learn to provide effective, patient-centric care by fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making
• Have access to online testing platforms that prepare students for the R.N. licensure examination
• Support health promotion, and disease and injury prevention activities, to improve individual and population health
• Embrace the core values of professionalism that support optimal health and wellness outcomes
• Have opportunities to participate in research projects
• Study in a program that is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education