BSN Program Outcomes

Baccalaureate graduates of the Loewenberg School of Nursing:

1. Use the nursing process, core nursing knowledge¹, and core nursing competencies to design, provide, and manage culturally competent, cost effective, direct and indirect nursing care or individuals, families, communities, and populations.
2. Integrate theoretical, empirical, and intuitive knowledge from other scientific disciplines, and the humanities into the practice of nursing.
3. Collaborate with others to provide health promotion and health care access to diverse populations.
4. Integrate professional nursing values³ into nursing practice.
5. Modify patient care in response to changing health care systems, health policies, and global environmental factors⁴.
6. Integrate selected research findings into nursing practice.
7. Maintain professional accountability for effective nursing practice and the advancement of the profession.
8. Implement nursing roles that meet the emerging health needs of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

¹ Core nursing knowledge includes: a) health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention, b) illness and disease management, and c) information and health care technologies.

² Core nursing competencies include: a) critical thinking, c) communication, c) assessment and technical skills, d) teaching, e) humanistic-caring, f) management, g) leadership, and h) integration of knowledge skills.

³ Professional nursing values include: a) caring, b) altruism, c) autonomy, d) human dignity, e) integrity, and f) social justice.

⁴ Global environment factors include: a) international law and public health, b) disease transmission, c) health policy, and d) health care economics.