Traditional BSN Learning Outcomes

College of Nursing Learning Outcomes

• Professional Nursing
  Synthesize liberal education and nursing knowledge as a foundation for decision making in the nursing role
• Person Centered Care
  Provide nursing care that is based on current evidence, clinical expertise, ethical practice, and patient preference, needs, and values and recognizes the patient as a full partner and source of control
• Collaboration
  Use current technology to foster effective communication as part of a collaborative team approach, to manage patient information, and other data to maximize safety and optimize health outcomes with all stakeholders
• Population Health
  Demonstrate leadership to promote quality outcomes to provide high quality and safe care to diverse individuals and populations that minimize risk of harm to patient, others, and self.
• Values based care
  Provide nursing care grounded in the Franciscan ethics and portraying the core nursing values of accountability, caring, communication, clinical reasoning, critical thinking and lifelong learning
• Safety and Quality Improvement
  Engage fully in the health care team demonstrating leadership through the analysis of the organization, policy, and processes to foster mutual respect and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care
• Evidence Based Practice
  Exhibit Critical thinking and decision-making evidence-based nursing practice incorporating scientific inquiry as a foundation to reach appropriate clinical judgement for health promotion, disease prevention and management of illness