Student Learning Outcomes

Practical Nursing Program

  1. Critical Thinking: Demonstrate competency while performing nursing skills incorporating critical thinking.
  2. Holism: Apply holistic principles while caring for individuals, families, and communities across the lifespan.
  3. Nursing Processs and Safety: Utilize the nursing process to provide safe nursing care in a structured setting.
  4. Communication: Demonstrate effective communication within interdisciplinary teams.
  5. Ethics: Identify accountability in nursing practice according to legal and ethical principles.
  6. Advocacy and Leadership: Assume responsibility for implementing individual professional development.
  7. Education and Health Promotion: Reinforce fundamental health education and promotion in a variety of settings across the lifespan.
  8. Respectful Care: Demonstrate respect and caring to promote hope, health, and healing, while preserving dignity.

Associate of Applied Science Degree Program

  1. Critical Thinking: Demonstrate proficiency while performing nursing skills incorporating clinical judgment and evidence based practice.
  2. Holism: Implement holistic principles while caring for individuals, families, and communities across the lifespan.
  3. Nursing Processs and Safety: Establish priorities and ensure safe, quality care while utilizing the nursing process.
  4. Communication: Model effective communication and leadership when collaborating within interdisciplinary teams.
  5. Ethics: Model accountability in nursing practice while adhering to legal and ethical principles.
  6. Advocacy and Leadership: Advocate for professional and leadership role development in self and others.
  7. Education and Health Promotion: Implement teaching plans and health promotion in a variety of settings throughout the lifespan.
  8. Respectful Care: Serve as a caring and respectful advocate in promoting hope, health, and healing, while preserving human dignity.

Bachelor of Science in Nursing Programs (Prelicensure BSN and RN to BSN)

  1. Critical Thinking: Reliable evidence from multiple perspectives to inform safe nursing practice and make reasonable clinical decisions.
  2. Holism: Synthesize knowledge from nursing and a liberal education in the planning and provision of holistic nursing care across the lifespan and continuum of health care environments.
  3. Nursing Processs and Safety: Employ the nursing process and patient care technologies and information systems to support safe nursing practice.
  4. Communication: Utilize interpersonal and interprofessional communication in collaboration for the promotion of optimal health for individuals, families, communities, and populations.
  5. Ethics: Apply ethical and legal standards of professional nursing including professional accountability and responsibility in the provision of professional nursing care.
  6. Advocacy and Leadership: Integrate leadership and management skills, and knowledge of health care policy, regulatory processes, and cost effectiveness for the improvement of quality care and patient safety.
  7. Education and Health Promotion: Incorporate principles of health education, promotion, and disease prevention in the professional nursing care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
  8. Value: caring, respect, dignity, hope, and the human spirit in the provision of professional nursing care.