Objectives of the Bachelor of Science Program
The undergraduate program provides the knowledge and skills fundamental to professional nursing. Students emerge from this community-based program prepared for graduate study and able to:
- Advocate for culturally relevant care for vulnerable and underserved populations to reduce health care disparities and promote social justice.
- Collaborate to shape environments and systems that promote health and well- being, ensure safe, quality care for all, and maximize the unique contribution of nursing.
- Enact the nursing role in a manner that consistently reflects caring, professional values, ethical principles, accountability, integrity, a commitment to lifelong learning, self-care, and an awareness of how personal values influence one’s actions.
- Exhibit a spirit of inquiry and creativity to identify gaps in nursing knowledge, critique new science, and use evidence as a basis of practice.
- Provide safe, quality, patient- and family-centered holistic care across the lifespan to promote health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities.
- Engage others to envision, influence, and implement practice and policy changes in healthcare to achieve a preferred future locally, nationally, and globally.
- Collaborate with individuals, families, communities and interdisciplinary teams using professional communication to design, manage, and evaluate care, facilitate transitions of care and maximize outcomes.
- Integrate emerging technologies and information management tools to enhance communication and healthcare access, support safe processes of care, and evaluate impact on health outcomes.
(Approved by Faculty Assembly December 17, 2014; updated 5/15, 5/16; reviewed 5/18)