Integrate evidence-based practices & theoretical knowledge.

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.

Develop skills in leadership & patient safety.

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.

Gain an understanding of all healthcare & nursing practice policies.

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.

Learn patient care technology & utilize information management.

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.

Learn the principles of health promotion & disease prevention.

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 for the advancement of the healthcare profession & industry

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.

Learn the values of nursing care and the ethical, moral, and legal aspects of the healthcare profession.

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