Program Educational Outcomes

Upon completion of the Associate in Science Degree in Nursing the graduate will:

1. Communicate Effectively

2. Act Professionally

3. Make Clinical Decisions

4. Provide a Safe and Effective Environment

5. Provide Physiological Integrity

6. Provide Psychosocial Integrity

7. Promote and Maintain Health

1. Communicate Effectively

A. Utilize effective interactive skills during verbal, non-verbal, written, or information technology communications with clients, family/significant others, peers, and members of the health care team.

B. Utilize caring, compassion and cultural awareness in the establishment of a trusting relationship and in the promotion of positive outcomes.

2. Act Professionally

A. Practice within the ethical, legal, and regulatory frameworks of nursing and adhere to standards of professional nursing practice.

B. Demonstrate accountability for nursing judgments and actions.

C. Develop and implement a plan to meet self-learning needs.

D. Recognize the value of and actively participate in professional organizations and
community service.

3. Make Clinical Decisions

A. Accurately perform a comprehensive physiological, psychosocial, learning needs, and functional status assessment of clients.

B. Utilize critical thinking in the analysis of patient assessment data resulting in a plan of care.

C. Design nursing strategies to assist the clients to meet their healthcare needs.

D. Determine client’s progress toward targeted outcomes and adjust the plan of care based on evaluation data.

4. Provide a Safe and Effective Environment

A. Utilize leadership qualities to manage human, physical, financial and technological resources in an efficient and effective manner.

B. Collaborate with the client, family/significant others, and members of the healthcare team to solve problems and to achieve the client’s healthcare goals and outcomes.

C. Advocate for and protect clients, family/significant others, and health care personnel from physical and psychosocial factors that may negatively influence or affect their well being.

D. Consider physiological, psychological, and knowledge needs in the preparation for and during the delivery of nursing care.

5. Provide Physiological Integrity

A. Anticipate, recognize and analyze client’s physiological responses and adaptations to acute and chronic changes in homeostasis.

B. Provide care and comfort when making clinical decisions that assist clients to meet physiological needs.

C. Provide nursing care respectful of client’s choices related to culture, values, beliefs, and lifestyles.

6. Provide Psychosocial Integrity

A. Anticipate, recognize, and analyze client’s ways of thinking, communicating, feeling, and acting.

B. Provide care and comfort when making clinical decisions to implement strategies directed toward the attainment of psychosocial goals.

C. Create a caring environment of hope and trust that is respectful of client’s,
family’s/significant others’ culture, values, beliefs, and lifestyle.

7. Promote and Maintain Health

A. Assist the client and significant others during expected stages of growth and development throughout the lifespan.

B. Assist clients and significant others to cope with and adapt to stressful events and changes in health status.

C. Manage and provide care for clients in need of prevention and early treatment of alterations in health.

D. Utilize the teaching and learning processes to promote and maintain health and to reduce risks.

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