Learning outcomes:

• Effective therapeutic nursing practice

• Nursing judgment

• A spirit of inquiry

• Professional identity

Upon completing this program, students will know and know how to do the following:The graduate is a knowledgeable professional nurse who will:

• Diagnose actual and potential health problems based on a comprehensive and focused assessment of health and illness parameters, using developmentally, culturally and ethnically appropriate approaches

• Plan and implement holistic, evidence-based, patient centered care to patients, families, communities, and populations across the health illness continuum, across the lifespan, and across settings

• Carry out a systematic and ongoing evaluation of identified outcomes

• Employ strategies to promote health and prevent disease in patients, families, communities and populations

• Use nursing judgment as a basis for decision making

• Create a safe care environment that results in high quality patient outcomes

• Use psychomotor skills for efficient, safe, and compassionate delivery of patient care

• Use written, verbal, nonverbal and emerging technology methods to communicate effectively and to measure, record, and retrieve healthcare data, implement the nursing process, and enhance nursing practice

• Collaborate with members of the interprofessional healthcare team to plan, deliver and evaluate nursing care within the context of quality and safety and considering human, fiscal and material resources

• Express own identity as a nurse by adhering to professional standards of ethical and legal conduct

• Demonstrate beginning level leadership and management skills that reflect accountability, interpersonal effectiveness, and principles of ethical behavior and quality improvement

• Articulate the value of pursuing lifelong learning and professional engagement to foster professional growth and development

• Integrate theories and concepts from liberal education to build an understanding of the human experience and help patients, families, and communities continually progress toward fulfillment of human capacities

• Develop an awareness of variables influencing nursing practice and delivery of health care including health care access, allocation of human, fiscal, and material resources, and health disparities