Program
Learning Outcomes
Upon
graduation, the student will be able to:
| 1. | Develop knowledge for nursing practice based on empirical evidence from nursing, biologic and psychosocial sciences. |
| 2. | Assess the client's health status to facilitate optimum health outcomes in a variety of health care settings. |
| 3. | Examine clients' and families' adaptation to changes in their internal and external environments affecting health promotion, health maintenance, rehabilitation, and restoration of health. |
| 4. | Use nursing process that recognizes the needs and values in the individual client and family as affected by developmental, social, and cultural variables. |
| 5. | Implement therapeutic nursing interventions and therapeutic modalities based on principles of safe and effective care, teaching and learning, caring, and cultural diversity. |
| 6. | Use written and oral communication to achieve therapeutic outcomes with clients and to promote collaboration with the interdisciplinary health care team. |
| 7. | Function within the institutional framework to manage resources and coordinate care for individual and multiple clients to promote continuity of care. |
| 8. | Utilize critical thinking skills and literature findings to facilitate decision making in nursing practice. |
| 9. | Examine historical and contemporary influences integral to the shaping of public and professional expectations and demands for nurses and nursing care. |
| 10. | 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. |
| 11. | Perform as an accountable Member of a profession within an ethical–legal framework. |
| 12. | 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. |
| Revised
1/31/07 Approved FA 3/2007 |
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