Accreditation & Statistics

At the completion of the program, the ASN graduate will:

• Patient-Centered Care
  
  • Integrate nursing that is patient-centered, caring, and culturally sensitive and based on the physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients.
• Teamwork and Collaboration
  
  • Collaborate with members of the inter-professional healthcare team to promote continuity of patient care and achievement of optional outcomes.
• Evidence-Based Practice
  
  • Use best current evidence, expert opinion, and clinical expertise as a basis for nursing practice and clinical judgment.
• Quality Improvement
  
  • Promote the development and implementation of quality improvement strategies to advance health care services.
• Safety
  
  • Provide a safe environment for patients, self, and others.
• Informatics
  
  • Integrate information technology resources into the provision of patient care.
• Professionalism
  
  • Practice nursing in a professional, ethical, and legal manner.
• Leadership
  
  • Use leadership skills in the management of safe, quality patient care.

At the completion of the program, the BSN graduate will:

• Professionalism
  • Utilize knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety to provide high quality healthcare by assuming responsibility and accountability for personal actions and professional development ensuring human dignity, integrity, and social justice (AACN, Essential II &VIII).
• Nursing Process and Critical Thinking
  • Think critically using the nursing process and synthesized knowledge from a liberal education incorporating humanities, sciences, information management, and patient care technology in providing holistic, safe, effective care to individuals, families, groups, and communities across the lifespan to facilitate health promotion and disease prevention (AACN, Essential I, IV, VII, & IX).
• Therapeutic Communication and Intervention
  • Utilize therapeutic communication and intervention to provide professional nursing care for health promotion and maintenance, illness care, and rehabilitation of the client. (AACN, Essential VIII)
• Leadership, Collaboration and Advocacy
  • Assume beginning leadership roles, communicating and collaborating with healthcare professionals of interdisciplinary teams, in providing quality care, advocating for care based on ethical, legal, political, and spiritual variables, and developing and implementing financial and regulatory healthcare policies(AACN, Essential V &VI).
• Evidence-Based Practice
  • Utilize evidenced based practice to advance professional nursing practice, research, and delivery of health care (AACN, Essential III).

At the completion of the program, the MSN graduate will:

• Professionalism
  • Engage in professional and scholarly activities that promote the profession of nursing and individual development in advanced practice nursing through implementation of evidence- based practice for both direct and indirect patient care. (IOM 4; AACN Essential I)
• Nursing Process and Critical Thinking
  • Integrate synthesized knowledge of behavioral and natural sciences, humanities, technology, and nursing science to perform advanced practice nursing roles to improve patient care and decrease healthcare cos.t (IOM 1, 5; AACN Essential III, IX)
• Therapeutic Communication and Interventions
  • Exhibit expertise in the advanced practice nursing role of clinical nurse specialist, family nurse practitioner, nurse administrator, or nurse educator while incorporating scientific and ethical principles to improve healthcare outcomes for a diverse population. (IOM 9; AACN Essential IV)
• Leadership, Collaboration and Advocacy
  • Assume advanced leadership roles, including collaborating with members of interdisciplinary teams, and influencing policy-making that impacts positively on healthcare delivery. (IOM 2, 6, 7; AACN Essential II, VI)
• Evidence-Based Practice
  • Participate as a researcher and a consumer of research in advancing nursing science and practice in disease prevention and promotion and maintenance of optimal health across the lifespan. (IOM 8; ACCN Essential I, IV)
  • Critically analyze healthcare data in order to promote optimal health. (IOM 3; AACN Essential I)