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School of Nursing PLOs

Nursing BS

  1. Synthesize for social justice, including commitment to the health of vulnerable populations and the elimination of health disparities.
  2. Apply critical inquiry and clinical reasoning, as a generalist, when planning and/or providing care to diverse individuals, families, groups, and communities across the lifespan, in a variety of community-based and institutional settings.
  3. Synthesize thoughtful, focused reflection and reasoned judgment in the delivery and evaluation of nursing care, to improve nursing outcomes and nursing practice.
  4. Evaluate and revise effective and respectful communication strategies (written, verbal, electronic, and other appropriate technologies).
  5. Evaluate the effectiveness of communication skills with clients, groups and organizations, while maintaining appropriate confidentiality of information.
  6. Use information systems effectively to manage and evaluate care for diverse clients, families and groups and communities.
  7. Analyze the roles nursing plays in society.
  8. Participate actively in effective relationships with diverse clients, inter professional teams, community agencies, and other stakeholders.
  9. Serve as a health educator for the purpose of developing attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors to promote, protect, and restore health and assist the client in making informed health care choices.
  10. Institute activities to prepare for licensure and professional nursing practice.
  11. Analyze the role of nursing in global health, and the effects of global health issues on nursing practice.
  12. Demonstrate cultural competence when providing care for diverse individuals, families, groups and communities.
  13. Advocate for social justice, including commitment to the health of vulnerable populations and the elimination of health disparities.
  14. Manage nursing care in collaboration with clients and an inter professional team, through coordination, delegation, consultation and referral.
  15. Model the professional nursing role based on accepted standards of practice, including accountability for one’s personal and professional behaviors and development.
  16. Analyze the financial, legal and ethical implications of professional decisions involving individuals, groups, communities and organizations.
  17. Express informed positions on professional issues and trends, opportunities for advocacy, and strategies for social and political action for health and well-being.
  18. Explain the leadership role of nurses in addressing global health issues.
  19. Participate in practice settings, professional organizations, communities and government to improve nursing practice, nursing education, client care and the health care delivery system.

Nursing Online/RN BS Completion

  1. Synthesize for social justice, including commitment to the health of vulnerable populations and the elimination of health disparities.
  2. Apply critical inquiry and clinical reasoning, as a generalist, when planning and/or providing care to diverse individuals, families, groups, and communities across the lifespan, in a variety of community-based and institutional settings.
  3. Synthesize thoughtful, focused reflection and reasoned judgment in the delivery and evaluation of nursing care, to improve nursing outcomes and nursing practice.
  4. Evaluate and revise effective and respectful communication strategies (written, verbal, electronic, and other appropriate technologies).
  5. Evaluate the effectiveness of communication skills with clients, groups and organizations, while maintaining appropriate confidentiality of information.
  6. Use information systems effectively to manage and evaluate care for diverse clients, families and groups and communities.
  7. Analyze the roles nursing plays in society.
  8. Participate actively in effective relationships with diverse clients, inter professional teams, community agencies, and other stakeholders.
  9. Serve as a health educator for the purpose of developing attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors to promote, protect, and restore health and assist the client in making informed health care choices.
  10. Institute activities to prepare for licensure and professional nursing practice.
  11. Analyze the role of nursing in global health, and the effects of global health issues on nursing practice.
  12. Demonstrate cultural competence when providing care for diverse individuals, families, groups and communities.
  13. Advocate for social justice, including commitment to the health of vulnerable populations and the elimination of health disparities.
  14. Manage nursing care in collaboration with clients and an inter professional team, through coordination, delegation, consultation and referral.
  15. Model the professional nursing role based on accepted standards of practice, including accountability for one’s personal and professional behaviors and development.
  16. Analyze the financial, legal and ethical implications of professional decisions involving individuals, groups, communities and organizations.
  17. Express informed positions on professional issues and trends, opportunities for advocacy, and strategies for social and political action for health and well-being.
  18. Explain the leadership role of nurses in addressing global health issues.
  19. Participate in practice settings, professional organizations, communities and government to improve nursing practice, nursing education, client care and the health care delivery system.

Doctor of Nursing Practice

  1. Uses theoretical and evidence based knowledge to create, evaluate, and implement changes in practice, systems of care, organizations and communities to improve population-based outcomes
  2. Design, implement, and evaluate practice methodologies which integrate nursing science with knowledge from a wide-range of disciplines, and based on other appropriate scientific underpinnings to enhance individual, aggregate, and population health outcomes
  3. Utilize advanced communication skills to provide leadership in inter-professional and intra-professional teams to create change and influence policy in practice, systems of care, organizations and communities
  4. Provide leadership in the evaluation and resolution of ethical, legal, and policy issues within systems relating to the use of information, information technology, communication networks, and health care technologies
  5. Apply emerging technology and communication modalities to provide ethical communication sensitive to the needs of diverse population
  6. Construct and implement strategies to improve health care processes and evaluate outcomes of practice, practice patterns, and systems of care
  7. Build sustainable inter-professional and intra-professional partnerships based in social justice, equity, and ethical principles to optimize the health of population
  8. Designs, implements, and analyzes innovative policies and processes to enhance the health of local, regional, national, and global population
  9. Creates, implements, and evaluates cost-effective strategies beyond formal health systems to improve health and population outcomes in local, regional, national, and global population
  10. Provide leadership and mentorship to meet the current and future needs of populations to promote optimal health outcomes
  11. Employ and apply evidence and principles of business, finance, economic, and health policy to implement ethical and effective practices to improve health outcome.
  12. Construct a personal philosophy of leadership using personal reflection and ethical, principled leadership skills to lead change and achieve excellence in nursing practice
  13. Employ empirical and culturally-sensitive strategies to assess, design, implement, and evaluate outcomes to effect health care change

Adult Gerontology NP, Acute & Adult Gerontology NP, Primary

  1. Synthesizes from a broad perspective theoretical and evidence-based knowledge for advanced nursing practice.
  2. Applies refined analytic skills for APRNs. – a. Applies clinical investigative skills to improve health outcomes, and b. Analyzes clinical guidelines for individualized application into practice.
  3. Integrates theory and complexity science into advanced nursing practice.
  4. Evaluates the effectiveness of professional communication strategies through multiple modalities in advanced nursing roles.
  5. Articulates evidence-based viewpoints and positions in advanced nursing roles.
  6. Uses information and communication technologies, resources and principles of learning to teach patients and others.
  7. Synthesizes knowledge, skills, methodologies and learning tools for impacting health care delivery and outcomes. a. Execute APN skills within multiple clinical settings. b. Provide the full spectrum of health care services to include health promotion, disease prevention, health protection, anticipatory guidance, counseling, disease management, palliative & end of life care.
  8. Demonstrates engagement in inter-professional, collaborative partnerships that impact health care delivery and outcomes.
  9. Integrates civic engagement, advocacy and policy development roles into advanced nursing practice.
  10. Explore advanced nursing roles in addressing global health issues.
  11. Distinguishes the effects of global health issues on nursing education, research, administration and practice.
  12. Incorporates cultural sensitivity in advance nursing roles with diverse populations.
  13. Integrates professional values in advanced nursing leadership roles in health care. a. Demonstrates the highest level of accountability for professional practice.
  14. Integrates advanced nursing leadership roles in health care using an enhanced theoretical and research base.