Nursing Program Outcomes

Students will demonstrate outcomes in each of the following areas:

Nursing

By the end of the program the graduate will:

  • Demonstrate compassionate, patient centered care to patients across the lifespan while integrating patient preferences, values and needs.
  • Utilize best current evidence to make appropriate and timely clinical judgment.
  • Provide quality care by minimizing risk of harm to patients and utilizing standardized safe practices.
  • Collaborate and communicate with patients, their support systems and health care team members to achieve optimal health outcomes.
  • Develop a spirit of inquiry and integrate healthcare informatics and technology into practice to communicate, enhance knowledge, decrease errors, and support decision making.
  • Implement one’s role with accountability, commitment to caring, legal and ethical responsibility and respect while adhering to standards of professional practice as a leader and manager of care.

Additional college-wide outcomes include the following and are assessed in general education courses included in the DTA/MRP degree.

Communication

After successfully completing the written communication requirement, students will:

  • Demonstrate literal and inferential comprehension.
  • Communicate clearly and effectively in appropriate contexts.

Quantitative/Symbolic Reasoning

After successfully completing the quantitative skills requirement, students will:

  • Apply algebraic, analytic, geometric or statistical reasoning to solve abstract and applied problems appropriate to an individual discipline
  • Interpret mathematical, quantitative or symbolic models such as formulas, graphs and tables, and draw inferences from them
  • Employ basic symbolic or quantitative reasoning to support a position or conclusion

 

Choice of Ten Credits from Transfer Distribution Areas may result in any combination of the following outcomes:

Humanities

After successfully completing the humanities distribution requirement, students will:

  • Demonstrate literal and inferential comprehension.
  • Communicate clearly and effectively in appropriate contexts.
  • Understand and interpret human achievements in various forms.
  • Analyze and synthesize meaning in verbal, visual and/or auditory media.

Social Science

After successfully completing the social science distribution requirement, students will:

  • Understand, articulate, and evaluate the similarities and differences between and among various social sciences.
  • Understand, articulate, and evaluate how various factors (e.g., social, personal/individual, historical, political, and economic) influence human behavior.
  • Understand, articulate, and evaluate the applicability of significant theoretical perspectives (e.g., conflict theory, feminist theory, cognitive behavioral theory) as they relate to contemporary social issues.
  • Identify, understand, evaluate, and apply research literature from multiple social science disciplines.

Science

After successfully completing the science distribution requirement, students will:

  • Understand the nature of science, including the role of observation in the development of scientific theories and laws;
  • Use the languages of science to interpret and communicate scientific information;
  • Use scientific knowledge to analyze and evaluate data and solve problems; and
  • Obtain and analyze experimental data.