Program Goals and Intended Learning Outcomes
Program Goals
The goals of the RN to BSN Program are to:
- Prepare professional nurses to provide care to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
- Use general and liberal education courses and nursing knowledge to support clinical decision-making, evidence-based practice and evaluative nursing practice.
- Expand the skills of nurses to include participation as a collaborative member of the health care team, a manager, leader and coordinator of care, and one who participates in professional activities.
- Foster accountability and responsibility for professional development and life- long learning.
- Advance the development of an ethical value system for informed nursing practice.
- Provide a framework by which nurses can serve clients in a variety of settings with diverse needs.
- Support communication with clients, nursing colleagues, and other members of the health care team.
- Foster the use of knowledge and research to form an inquiry-based practice.
Student Outcomes
The graduate will:
- Provide care to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
- Integrate general and liberal education into nursing knowledge to support clinical decision-making, evidence-based practice and evaluative nursing practice.
- Become a collaborative member of the health care team, a manager, leader and coordinator of care, participates in professional activities.
- Be accountable and responsible for professional development and life-long learning.
- Build an ethical value system for informed nursing practice.
- Be prepared to serve clients in a variety of settings with diverse needs.
- Communicate effectively with clients, colleagues, and other members of the heath care team.
- Use knowledge and research to form an inquiry-based practice.
