Program Objectives

Undergraduate Program

1. Demonstrate effectiveness in planning and providing therapeutic nursing care, managing information and promoting self-care competence of culturally diverse individuals, families, groups and communities.
2. Employ a variety of technologies and other therapeutic modalities with sensitivity for the provision of care.
3. Make sound clinical judgments based on nursing science and related theory, using critical thinking and ethical decision-making.
4. Demonstrate collaboration with peers, patient, healthcare professionals, and others within healthcare teams in the process of planning, delegating, implementing, and evaluating care.
5. Communicate with clarity, purpose, and sensitivity using a variety of methods including technology.
6. Identify clinical problems and apply research findings in order to promote evidenced-based and creative practice in nursing.
7. Synthesize knowledge from the humanities and sciences in developing and providing care that is holistic, visionary, culturally competent, fiscally responsible, and socially relevant.
8. Demonstrate accountability for professional growth, the provision of nursing care, and lifelong learning.
9. Advocate for patients, consumers, and the nursing profession through involvement in the political process, and health/patient care policies and practices.

Graduate Program

1. Negotiate a role within the healthcare delivery system that provides for collaboration, interdependence and a professional identity as an advanced nursing professional with specialized knowledge.
2. Communicate effectively with others in order to provide comprehensive care or services in a variety of settings.
3. Use an ethical framework to analyze personal values, resolve dilemmas in practice, and serve as an advocate for clients consistent with ethical codes of conduct.
4. Contribute to the body of nursing knowledge through the conduct or systematic use of research.
5. Assume a leadership role within the healthcare system to influence local, regional and national policies that impact the quality of healthcare delivery.
6. Demonstrate critical thinking in decision making in the role of an advanced nursing professional.
7. Integrate a sensitivity to cultural diversity and the unique characteristics of the individual, family, and community in the development and implementation of services or care.
8. Utilize theory and research from nursing and related disciplines to formulate nursing strategies, initiate change, improve practice, and influence health care policy.
9. Delineate measurable health outcomes for clients, populations, programs or systems based on accurate assessment.
10. Utilize information systems to develop interventions that are beneficial and cost effective.