At the completion of the program, the graduate will:
Demonstrate clinical judgment in professional nursing practice.
Components:
- Critical thinking, clinical reasoning, problem solving, and decision making
- Prioritization and delegation
- Nursing process
Possess a philosophy that encompasses the values and attributes of professional nursing.
Components:
- Leadership
- Lifelong learning
- College values: Excellence, Integrity, Community, and Caring
- Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity
- Accountable, ethical, and professional behavior
Synthesize general education and nursing knowledge into professional practice.
Components:
- Arts and sciences
- Standards: AACN Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice, ANA Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, and QSEN Competencies
- Research utilization and evidence-based practice
Use effective communication in the provision of nursing care.
Components:
- Verbal/nonverbal/written
- Technology/informatics
- Therapeutic
- Group process
- Intra- and interdisciplinary collaboration
Achieve quality health care outcomes by integrating the professional nursing roles into practice in various healthcare settings.
Components:
- Provider of and advocate for evidenced-based care
- Designer, manager, and coordinator of holistic care
- Member of the profession
- Teacher
- Evidenced-based practitioner
Incorporate the principles of health promotion, disease and injury prevention, illness and injury management and a population focused approach into nursing practice.
Components:
- Across the lifespan
- Transitions of care
- Healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments
- Individuals, families, groups, communities and populations
- Health literacy