Major Requirements

Students will demonstrate the ability to initiate and maintain a flow of information among professional groups through the use of critical listening, oral and written communication skills. They will demonstrate the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams, collaborate with others in decision making, learning, completing tasks and applying knowledge that assures health promotion, disease and injury prevention, and patient safety. They will identify and discuss the dynamics of human negotiation among inter-professional groups and practice forging mutual agreements that contribute to developing and achieving a culture of care that assures safe quality outcomes for diverse populations.

Students understand and describe the essential differences between self and others, demonstrate mutual respect and sensitivity to cultural differences. Connecting and integrating liberal education with nursing theory students will be able to assess the impact of the various elements of lifestyle, environmental and genetic factors on the health status of culturally diverse individuals and communities that support or hinder health promotion, disease and injury prevention and assist individuals, families and groups in navigating the health care system. Applying knowledge of various research methods, application of statistics and research literature, students will be able to assess the efficacy of selected interventions. Students will possess effective communication skills to disseminate appropriate and effective nursing care across cultural groups, families and the individual lifespan.

Students will be able to identify, research and analyze systems, communities, profit and non-profit organizations for leadership, financial and health care policy concepts. Students will explore a variety of leadership theories and apply those concepts to promote safe quality care in organizational and community settings. Students will synthesize and integrate theory and methodology of collaboration in multiple health care settings including the scope and role of regulatory agencies that define the borders of nursing practice. Students will demonstrate collaborative skills in interdisciplinary settings to promote high quality care in a safe care delivery environment.

Students will demonstrate understanding and competence with clinical information systems using computer and internet technologies to support health care delivery. Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively utilize information technology to collect and organize data, detect, observe, describe and communicate patterns that emerge from the analysis of nursing questions in support of an evidence base of practice. Students will demonstrate competence in the analysis and display of data.

Students will integrate knowledge of the theories, principles and issues common to the fields of nursing and health care including community health, social welfare and global service achieving a broad understanding of the human experience. Students demonstrate the ability to critically analyze community issues and begin to master the skills necessary to identify and define broad health care issues across the life span that influence financial, regulatory and policy development. Students will demonstrate an ability to effectively communicate complex health care delivery and policy issues through information systems and communication devices.

Students will demonstrate an understanding of life-long learning and how the constellation of bio-psycho-social knowledge and skills differentiates the role of the professional nurse. Students will also demonstrate knowledge through application of research methods that support evidence based practice models in community and organizational settings. Students will utilize writing and presentation skills providing a systematic process for the evaluation and application of scientific evidence and the sharing of evidence based practices. Students will use the scientific method to develop questions and test hypotheses that support safe and effective care delivery.