Nursing Program Goals
PN - Program Goals
Upon completion of the program, the graduate will:
- 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.
- 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.
- Evidence-Based Practice: Use current evidence as a basis for nursing practice.
- Informatics: Use information and client care technology to support the delivery of safe, quality client care.
- Quality Improvement: Participate in quality improvement activities assessing their effect on client outcomes.
- Provide an environment that is safe and reduces risk of harm for clients, self, and others.
- Professionalism: Demonstrate accountability for client care that incorporates legal and ethical principles, regulatory guidelines, and standards of nursing practice.
- Leadership: Use leadership skills that support the provision and coordination of client care.
ADN - Program Goals
Upon completion of the program, the graduate will:
- Integrate caring behaviors in practicing the art and science of nursing within a diverse population.
- Implement professional standards and scope of practice within legal, ethical, and regulatory frame works.
- Collaborate with clients and members of the inter-professional health care team to optimize client outcomes.
- Formulate safe and effective clinical judgements guided by the nursing process, clinical reasoning, and evidence-based practice.
- Provide leadership in the management of care to meet client needs using available resources and current technology.
- Generate teaching and learning processes to promote and maintain health and reduce risks for a global population.
- Demonstrate effective communication methods to manage client needs and to interact with other healthcare team members.