Undergraduate Nursing (B.S.N.) Program Outcomes

Program outcomes reflect the AACN Essential Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education as outlined by the following domains:

• Outcome 1 (Domain #1): Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Integrate, translate, and apply knowledge from the arts, sciences, humanities, and the evolving discipline of nursing as the basis for clinical judgment and nursing practice.
• Outcome 2 (Domain #2): Person-Centered Care: Provide person-centered care that is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate.
• Outcome 3 (Domain #3): Population Health: Engage in healthcare delivery that supports the improvement of health outcomes across all populations and entities from preventive care to disease management.
• Outcome 4 (Domain #4): Scholarship for the Nursing Program: Discourse, appraise, and disseminate a basic level of evidence synthesis and dissemination related to nursing knowledge to improve health and transform healthcare.
• Outcome 5 (Domain #5): Quality and Safety: Employ established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science to minimize risk of harm for patients and providers.
• Outcome 6 (Domain #6): Interprofessional Partnership: Engage in collaboration with healthcare team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, and strengthen health related outcomes.
• Outcome 7 (Domain #7): Systems-Based Practice: Communicate and coordinate with available resources to effectively provide safe, quality care to diverse populations.
• Outcome 8 (Domain #8): Informatics and Healthcare Technologies: ​Use information and communication technologies to understand evidence-based knowledge required to provide efficient health care services in accordance with regulatory standards.
• Outcome 9 (Domain #9): Professionalism: ​Form a nursing identity that embraces professional nurse characteristics, accountability, integrity, and values.
• Outcome 10 (Domain #10): Person, Professional, and Leadership Development: ​Demonstrate commitment to personal well-being, self-reflection, professional growth, and leadership development.