Nursing Program Student Learning Outcomes

The five program student learning outcomes are:

Quality care

Apply research to promote best practice and use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes while using improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems and deliver quality care to individuals, and diverse populations.

Professionalism

Demonstrate an enhanced commitment to professionalism that embraces excellence, caring, legal and ethical practice, civility, accountability, and life-long learning.

Communication

Model effective communication and collaboration with colleagues/interdisciplinary groups and members of the community to promote health, safety and well-being.

Leadership

• Apply principles of leadership, and knowledge of quality improvement and organizational systems in designing, managing and coordinating safe, quality, and cost-effective patient-centered care.
• Critical thinking/Clinical reasoning
• Utilize a systematic process of critical inquiry using nursing, natural and behavioral sciences, humanities and arts to make evidence-based practice decisions that improve the nursing care of individuals, families, groups, and communities.