Integrate evidence-based practice and theoretical knowledge from the arts, sciences and nursing disciplines to provide compassionate, safe and quality nursing care to diverse populations.

Outcomes: 

• Utilize health history and assessment to provide evidence-based and patient-centered care.
• Apply the principles of pathology in managing safe and effective patient-centered care.
• Promote optimal health, healing and disease prevention through effective utilization of teaching and learning principles.

Demonstrate knowledge and skill in leadership, quality improvement, patient safety, and collaborative teamwork to provide high-quality nursing care and improve patient outcomes.

Outcomes: 

• Utilize an understanding of health care organizations and the environment in which health care is provided to support quality health care delivery.
• Demonstrate the professional skills and personal qualities that characterize effective nurse leaders and managers.
• Apply knowledge of quality improvement standards in the delivery of safe and effective patient care.

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of regulatory and financial healthcare policies as they pertain to professional, effective, and safe, nursing practice.

Outcomes: 

• Apply knowledge of regulatory and financial policies to reduce adverse outcomes and to improve the quality of healthcare.
• Understand the ethical, legal, and regulatory implications related to patient safety.
• Describe the role of various systems and factors in creating safety and in causing errors and adverse events.

Utilize information management and patient care technology resources to effectively communicate and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals to support and provide quality care across the health care continuum.

Outcomes: 

• Demonstrate an understanding of the use of information and technology skills in the delivery of safe patient care.
• Demonstrate the ability to determine and use the appropriate technology to support information search, discovery methods, and decision making.
• Identify the application of technology and information management tools to coordinate and support the quality and safety of patient care.

Apply principles of health promotion and disease prevention across the healthcare system to improve health outcomes of diverse populations.

Outcomes: 

• Demonstrate knowledge and skills of health promotion and disease prevention, identify risk factors for disease/illness (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity, lifestyle).
• Assess readiness to learn, learning preferences, and barriers to learning when teaching about health risks based on family, population, and/or community characteristics
• Collaborate with members of the health care team to improve care processes leading to enhanced patient outcomes.

Develop knowledge and skills to sustain lifelong learning, the ability to think both critically and responsibly, and the advancement of the profession to effectively access, evaluate, and integrate information in the delivery of quality nursing care.

Outcomes: 

• Incorporate professional standards of practice to advance nursing practice while assuming personal responsibility and accountability for lifelong learning.
• Demonstrate the ability to process the information needed to work with health professionals within the context of caring for individuals and families.
• Demonstrate the ability to utilize research for the betterment of the global society and improvement of patient outcomes.

Integrate professional caring into practice decisions that encompass values, ethical, moral, and legal aspects of nursing care of diverse populations throughout the lifespan and across the continuum of healthcare environments.

Outcomes: 

• Apply professional standards, ethical principles, legal implications, and professional behaviors that guide nursing practice.
• Respect the dignity, worth, and uniqueness of self and others.
• Participate in the advancement of the profession to improve health care