RN-BSN Program Outcomes

• Apply theoretical and empirical knowledge from nursing, scientific, and humanistic disciplines to make evidence-based practice decisions.
• Participate in quality improvement processes to provide high-quality, safe nursing care in a variety of settings.
• Engage in critical inquiry to improve the nursing care of individuals, families, groups, and communities.
• Use information technology and patient data for ethical, clinical decision-making.
• Advocate for the health-care needs of society in a changing economic, demographic, and cultural environment.
• Demonstrate effective communication and collaboration skills with patients and interprofessional teams to improve health-care outcomes.
• Provide professional nursing care to individuals and populations that includes health promotion and maintenance, illness care, end-of-life care, restoration, and rehabilitation.
• Demonstrate a commitment to professional nursing values, ethical practice, and life-long learning.
• Demonstrate the ability to independently and collaboratively apply the problem-solving process to facilitate patient, family, and community adaptation to internal and external environmental variables for the purpose of achieving maximum health.

RN-BSN-MSN Program Outcomes

**For the MSN component only

• Synthesize research, theoretical formulations, and principles of scientific inquiry to provide evidence-based practice.
• Assume leadership in managing and evaluating continuous quality improvement processes.
• Use information systems/technology to evaluate programs of care, outcomes of care, and care systems.
• Advocate and implement health-care policies that improve access, equity, efficiency, and social justice in the delivery of health care.
• Design innovative educational programs for patients, nursing staff, and nursing students using teaching and learning principles.
• Provide ethical, culturally sensitive care in an advanced nursing role independently and collaboratively with professionals from multiple disciplines.
• Monitor the quality of one's own nursing practice based on professional practice standards and relevant statutes and regulations.
• Apply theories and principles of marketing, economics, consultation, management, and leadership to comprehensively perform an advanced nursing role.