Nursing Program Learning Outcomes
- Base personal and professional actions on a set of shared core nursing values, including social justice, caring, advocacy, protection from harm, respect for self and others, collegiality, and ethical behavior; notice, interpret, respond and reflect on ethical dilemmas using ethical principles and frameworks as a guideline.
- Develop insight through reflection, self-analysis, and self-care.
- Engage in intentional learning, developing self-awareness of learning and effects on client care, seeking new, relevant knowledge and skills.
- Demonstrate leadership in nursing and health care to meet client needs, improve the health care system, and facilitate community problem solving.
- Collaborate as part of a health care team, receiving, using and giving constructive feedback.
- Practice within, utilize, and contribute to the broader health care system.
- Practice relationship-centered care, based on empathy and caring, deep understanding of the care experience, and mutual trust and respect for the autonomy of the client.
- Communicate effectively and therapeutically, with attention to elements of cultural influences, and using appropriate modalities and technologies.
- Make sound clinical judgments through noticing, interpreting and responding, using best available evidence, frameworks and systems to organize data and knowledge; accurately perform skills while maintaining patient and personal safety.
- Locate, evaluate, and use the best available evidence.