Programs Goals and Outcomes

B.S. in Nursing End of Program Student Learning Outcomes

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing graduate:

1. Synthesizes knowledge from the arts and sciences and from nursing theory, practice, and evidence-based research to provide and to manage the health care needs of diverse community populations, patients, and families across the continuum of health care.
2. Uses professional nursing judgment, informed by Christian principles, moral and ethical reasoning, professional nursing standards, and evidence-based practice, to promote health, prevent disease, and provide safe, competent, whole-person nursing care across the continuum of health care.
3. Is a compassionate and conscientious nurse who serves humanity and the profession of nursing in the spirit of Christian caring.
4. Uses written, verbal, nonverbal, and emerging technological methods to communicate effectively in the provision, management, and coordination of health care across the life span.
5. Functions as a collaborative member of the interdisciplinary health care team to promote health, prevent disease, and provide evidence-based nursing care to individuals, families, communities, and populations across the continuum of health care.
6. Incorporates leadership and management skills and an understanding of organizations to promote safety and quality care for individuals, families, communities, and populations.
7. Designs care based upon an understanding of how regulatory policies and economic, political, and sociocultural forces directly and indirectly influence the health care system and professional nursing practice.
8. Engages in learning-centered experiences that promote lifelong personal and professional growth within the scope of baccalaureate nursing practice.

BSN-Prelicensure Technical Standards

Technical standards, as distinguished from academic standards, refer to the physical, cognitive, and behavioral abilities required for satisfactory completion of the curriculum.  The essential required abilities include motor, sensory, communicative, intellectual, behavioral, and social aspects.

Several standards are common to all programs.  These are listed below, followed by specific requirements of each program.

You must have the ability to:

1. Think critically, with sound judgment, emotional stability, maturity, empathy, and physical and mental stamina.
2. Learn and function in a wide variety of didactic and clinical settings.
3. Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, using appropriate grammar, spelling, and vocabulary.
4. Immediately comprehend and respond to auditory instructions or requests.
5. Think clearly and act calmly in stressful situations.
6. Perform up to a 12-hour clinical experience in a single 24-hour period.
7. Work cooperatively, preserving relationships with other members of the health care team.
8. Perform fine and gross motor skills with both hands.
9. Apply adequate pressure to stop bleeding.
10. Perform CPR.

Nursing students must have the ability to:

1. Take an accurate health history and perform physical assessments using necessary sensory, auditory, and visual acuity.
2. Process and professionally communicate information with accuracy in a timely manner.
3. Understand and apply ethical standards for health care.
4. Demonstrate cognitive abilities necessary to master relevant content in arts, sciences and clinical courses at a level deemed appropriate by the faculty.
5. Demonstrate emotional stability at a level necessary to deliver professional, safe, competent care in all settings.
6. Assist in accomplishing safe transfer of patients from bed to chair or stretcher and return to bed.