Student Outcomes
A graduate of the ASN program is expected to be:
- Critical Thinker: Someone who is able to demonstrate intellectual curiosity, rational inquiry, problem-solving skills, and creativity in framing problems.
- Culturally Competent Person: Someone who can provide holistic nursing care to a variety of individuals, families and communities.
- Knowledgeable Coordinator: A coordinator of community resources who facilitates individual, family, and community access to resources necessary to meet health care needs.
- Politically Aware Person: Someone who participates in the profession of practice of nursing with a global perspective.
- Conscientious Practitioner: An individual who practices within an ethical and legal framework of the nursing profession.
- Effective Communicator: An effective communicator who is able to share accurate information.
- Therapeutic Nursing Intervention / Competent Provider of Care: A competent provider of health care who assumes the multiple role dimensions in structured and semi-structured health care settings.
- Professional Role Model: A person who promotes a positive public image of nursing.
- Responsible Manager: A responsible manager who balances human, fiscal, and material resources to achieve quality health care outcomes.
Purpose
The BSN program offeres a creative curriculum for the education of professional nurses competent in meeting the current and future health needs of society. The curriculum prepares graduates to function as practitioners in acuter and long-term care, community settings, homecare and other nontraditional settings and provides a foundation for leadership positions and graduate study.
The graduate possesses a board knowledge of the humanities, biological and social sciences, and nursing. As a beginning practitioner the graduate applies well-developed problem solving skills in caring for individuals, families, and communities.
