Program Objectives:

Level I          Level II          Level III          Level IV

Level I Objectives

Are met through the successful completion of the required general education/prerequisite courses required by the College for admission.

Level II Objectives

1. Apply knowledge from general education and nursing theories to the adaptive responses of people.
2. Recognize nursing leadership roles in the provision of health care.
3. Explain the importance of nursing research to nursing practice.
4. Use the nursing process to identify and plan appropriate nursing interventions for people.
5. Perform nursing skills and interventions safely.
6. Identify professional values with ethical, moral, and legal aspects of nursing into nursing practice.
7. Practice caring through behaviors which reflect respect, empathy, genuineness in providing care to people in order to promote an optimal quality of health.
8. Develop communication skills to collaborate in finding solutions to problems and/or meeting the health care needs of people using the roles of direct care provider, teacher, and communicator.
9. Demonstrate nursing actions which are appropriate to a person's health status.
10. Describe the use of patient care technology and information management in providing optimal and safe nursing care.
11. Develop a personal conceptual framework for the professional roles and standards utilized in safe nursing practice.

Level III Objectives

1. Correlate theoretical knowledge from nursing, scientific, and humanistic disciplines to the adaptive responses of people, families, and groups.
2. Practice a leadership role in the provision and coordination of health care through collaborative relationships with other health professionals.
3. Critique nursing research findings for appropriate application in nursing practice.
4. Use the nursing process to assess the quality of outcomes for people, families, and groups with actual or potential threats of well-being.
5. Provide safe and appropriate nursing interventions to people, families, or groups that reflect adaptive responses to actual or potential threats of well-being.
6. Develop professional values with ethical, moral, and legal aspects of nursing into nursing practice.
7. Create an environment where caring is displayed through investment of self behaviors towards the optimal quality of health for people, families, and groups.
8. Demonstrate communication skills to enable collaboration in finding solutions to problems and/or meeting the health care needs of people, families, and groups utilizing the roles of advocate, collaborator, and facilitator.
9. Use nursing knowledge to make decisions to modify nursing actions based on the adaptive responses of people, families, or a group to actual or potential health threats.
10. Use patient care technology and information management systems in providing optimal, safe nursing care in a variety of health care settings.
11. Demonstrate the development of specific behaviors related to professional roles and standards of care in the delivery of safe and comprehensive nursing care.

Level IV Objectives

1. Synthesize theoretical and empirical knowledge from nursing, scientific, and humanistic disciplines to the adaptive responses of people, families, groups, communities, and society for optimal nursing practice.
2. Determine a leadership role in the provision and coordination of health care through collaborative relationships with other health professionals including health care policy, finance, and regulatory environments.
3. Use evidence based practice for appropriate application in nursing practice to refine and extend that practice.
4. Evaluate the quality of outcomes for people, families, groups, communities, and society with complex multi-dimensional stressors in the physical, biological, social, cultural, and spiritual spheres.
5. Integrate the ability to select and provide nursing interventions to people, families, groups, communities, and society which include health, promotion, restoration, and maintenance in disrupted states of well-being including the physical, biological, social, cultural, and spiritual spheres.
6. Employ professional values with ethical, moral, and legal aspects of nursing into nursing practice.
7. Incorporate caring behaviors which reflect commitment to the optimal health of people, families, groups, communities, and society.
8. Integrate communication skills to enable collaboration in finding solutions to problems and/or meeting the health care needs of people, families, groups, communities, and society utilizing the roles of manager, case finder, and change agent.
9. Evaluate responses to actual or potential changes in health status or environment to meet health care needs.
10. Integrate patient care technology and information management systems in providing optimal, safe nursing care in a variety of health care settings.
11. Evaluate the development of professional roles and the maintenance of standards in the delivery of safe comprehensive nursing care.

May 20, 2010