To successfully complete the nursing major, each graduate will demonstrate achievement of essential nursing student learning outcomes, which includes:
Professionalism: demonstrates accountability as a life-long learner for the delivery of evidence-based nursing care.
Leadership: demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting through accountability, influence, change management, and collaboration with others in a way that will facilitate the establishment and achievement of shared goals
Patient-Centered Care: enters into a holistic, compassionate, respectful partnership with the patient and family that facilitates shared decision-making, recognizing consumer preferences, values, and needs in providing age and culturally appropriate, coordinated, safe, and effective care
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): identifies, integrates, and evaluates current evidence and research findings coupled with clinical expertise and consideration of consumers' preferences, experience, and values to make practice decisions for quality outcomes
Teamwork and Collaboration: practices effectively with the healthcare consumer, family, and inter-professional team(s), to build relationships and foster open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making
Communication: communicates effectively, fostering mutual respect and shared decision making to enhance knowledge, experience, and health outcomes
Systems-Based Practice: is knowledgeable and responsive to the changing healthcare system and demonstrates the ability to access resources in a safe, effective, and financially responsible manner to provide value based care
Informatics and Technology: demonstrates proficiency in the use of technology and information systems to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and to support decision making for safe practice
Safety: utilizes clinical reasoning and critical thinking that drives a culture of safety to prevent risk of harm to healthcare consumers, families, colleagues, and the environment
Quality Improvement: contributes to evidence-based nursing practice by participating in improvement strategies/processes including the use of data to design, implement and evaluate outcomes to improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems
Geriatrics: values the unique psychosocial, physical, and cultural attributes of the older adult in order to promote healthy aging and provide safe and effective care