Learning Outcomes

Nursing Program Outcomes

Thinking Critically
• Uses clinical reasoning to provide optimal patient-centered care. (P/PCC)
• Locates, evaluates, and uses evidence within the context of patient and family preferences to provide optimal, safe and high quality patient-centered care (EBP/PCC)

Communicating Effectively
• Communicates effectively to enhance patient-centered outcomes (PCC)
• Describes the impact of effective interdisciplinary team communication and functioning on safety, quality of care, and shared decision-making (T/S)

Understanding Context
• Practices culturally responsive nursing with a global awareness of access, equity, and affordability within the context of social justice (QI)
• Uses available resources to effect changes in health care systems that minimize risk and achieve outcomes congruent with National Patient Safety Goals (S)

Appreciating Aesthetics
• Participates in the development and implementation of compassionate and creative strategies in providing patient-centered care (PCC)

Defining Personal Identity
• Demonstrates the use of recognized professional standards of nursing practice (P)
• Accepts accountability for nursing care given by self and delegated to others (P)
• Assumes a leadership role within one's scope of practice (P)

Examining Values
• Reflects on one's own beliefs and values as they relate to professional practice (P)
• Advocates for patients and the nursing profession (P)

Adapting and Innovating
• Demonstrates fluency in using patient care technologies, information systems, and communication devices that support patient-centered care and mitigate error (I/PCC)
• Articulates the value of pursuing professional practice excellence, lifelong learning, and professional engagement (QI)

Key: P = Professionalism, T = Teamwork & Collaboration, PCC = Patient Centered Care, EBP = Evidence-Based Practice, S = Safety, QI = Quality Improvement, I = Informatics