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PROGRAM MISSION
Committed to academic excellence, the mission of the nursing program is to educate students to become baccalaureate prepared nurses who value excellence, provide leadership, show caring attitudes in all endeavors, and foster community. Graduates are prepared to provide outcome focused, client centered, evidence-based, holistic nursing care to individuals, groups, and communities of diverse backgrounds.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Use critical thinking and decision-making in providing and directing safe nursing care in the areas of physical and mental health assessment, nursing care plan development, intervention implementation, and outcome evaluation.
- Demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills.
- Integrate professional role responsibilities in the areas of provider, designer, manager, coordinator of care, and member of a profession.
- Demonstrate professional value integration of the five C's of caring: commitment, conscience, competence, compassion, confidence*.
* Roach (1991) The call to consciousness: compassion in today's health world.
