Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Demonstrate the ability to communicate in writing resulting in understanding and being understood by patients, family and the interdisciplinary health team. Engage the student in learning by using teaching strategies appropriate to learner needs, based on current and prior learning, while using the online learning system to support the teaching and learning process.

Demonstrate competence in utilizing oral communication skills appropriately given the purpose and the context of the communication for quality patient-centered care. Recognize and integrate health promotion and disease recognition and assessment knowledge for safe patient care throughout the lifespan.

Apply critical thinking and reasoning skills based on theoretical principles to discriminate among inferences drawn from given data in clinical decision making and evaluation during evidence-based nursing practice. Utilize theoretical and evidence- based practice models in the development of professional roles for patient, family and community care in various settings.

Recognize the importance of social and cultural diversity and develop a perspective based on the analysis of diverse environmental factors that influence global health care. Explain and develop the leadership role utilizing current economic principles, quality improvement and management processes.

Determine the nature and extent of the information needed and demonstrate the ability to locate, evaluate and use informatics and other resources to support research, theory and evidence-based nursing practices when managing care across the healthcare continuum.

Integrate formal academic learning with personal experiences that promote the values of altruism, caring, human dignity, integrity, and social justice in all nursing practice situations. Integrate needs of the learners, faculty and community in planning and implementing curriculum.

Demonstrate the ability to use analytical skills to understand and evaluate systems of practice as a foundation for theoretical and evidence-based healthcare practice.

Demonstrate a system of inquiry that is dependent on empirical evidence to evaluate qualitative and quantitative research as a foundation for theoretical and evidence-based nursing practices.