- Develop knowledge for nursing practice based on empirical evidence from nursing, biologic and psychosocial sciences.
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- Assess the client's health status to facilitate optimum health outcomes in a variety of health care settings.
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- Examine clients' and families' adaptation to changes in their internal and external environments affecting health promotion, health maintenance, rehabilitation, and restoration of health.
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- Use nursing process that recognizes the needs and values in the individual client and family as affected by developmental, social, and cultural variables.
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- Implement therapeutic nursing interventions and therapeutic modalities based on principles of safe and effective care, teaching and learning, caring, and cultural diversity.
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- Use written and oral communication to achieve therapeutic outcomes with clients and to promote collaboration with the interdisciplinary health care team.
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- Function within the institutional framework to manage resources and coordinate care for individual and multiple clients to promote continuity of care.
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- Utilize critical thinking skills and literature findings to facilitate decision making in nursing practice.
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- Examine historical and contemporary influences integral to the shaping of public and professional expectations and demands for nurses and nursing care.
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- Demonstrate the diverse functions of the associate degree nurse within the roles of Provider of care, Coordinator of care, and Member of a profession that impact clients and families across the lifespan.
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- Perform as an accountable Member of a profession within an ethical–legal framework.
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- Embrace life values consistent with a commitment to caring for others, an appreciation for life-long learning and the promotion of the development and practice of professional nursing.
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