Nursing Program Goals

Nursing Students Performing Procedure on a Lab DummyPN - Program Goals

Upon completion of the program, the graduate will:

  1. Relationship-Centered Care: Provide nursing care that is relationship-centered, caring, culturally sensitive and based on the physiological, psychosocial and spiritual needs of clients with commonly occurring health alterations that have predictable outcomes.
  2. Teamwork and Collaboration: Collaborate with the client and members of the interprofessional health care team to promote continuity of client care and shared decision-making.
  3. Evidence-Based Practice: Use current evidence as a basis for nursing practice.
  4. Informatics: Use information and client care technology to support the delivery of safe, quality client care.
  5. Quality Improvement: Participate in quality improvement activities assessing their effect on client outcomes.
  6. Provide an environment that is safe and reduces risk of harm for clients, self, and others.
  7. Professionalism: Demonstrate accountability for client care that incorporates legal and ethical principles, regulatory guidelines, and standards of nursing practice.
  8. Leadership: Use leadership skills that support the provision and coordination of client care.

ADN - Program Goals

Upon completion of the program, the graduate will:

  1. Integrate caring behaviors in practicing the art and science of nursing within a diverse population. 
  2. Implement professional standards and scope of practice within legal, ethical, and regulatory frame works.
  3. Collaborate with clients and members of the inter-professional health care team to optimize client outcomes. 
  4. Formulate safe and effective clinical judgements guided by the nursing process, clinical reasoning, and evidence-based practice. 
  5. Provide leadership in the management of care to meet client needs using available resources and current technology.  
  6. Generate teaching and learning processes to promote and maintain health and reduce risks for a global population.  
  7. Demonstrate effective communication methods to manage client needs and to interact with other healthcare team members.