Lower Level
1. Demonstrate scientific and humanistic knowledge of the nursing discipline when analyzing biopsychosocial and spiritual aspects in the different stages of growth and development.
2. Know the nursing process as an instrument for making clinical decisions while offering a safe and quality care.
Upper Level
1. Demonstrate theoretical and practical knowledge integrated into the safe and effective nursing care provided to individuals, families and communities.
2. Know the use of nursing interventions to prevent disease, and to promote, protect, maintain and restore health.
3. Know critical thinking skills to make clinical judgments and to use research findings for the continuous improvement of the nursing practice
Skills
Lower Level
1. Demonstrates up-to-date clinical skills in therapeutic interventions when you offer care to the client throughout the continuum of health-disease in structured scenarios.
2. Demonstrate care management, coordination skills and effective collaboration as a member of the interdisciplinary team.
3. Use communication skills, critical thinking and the use of technology to maintain the quality of care offered to the client.
Upper Level
1. Use assessment and therapeutic interventions skills when providing nursing care in diverse scenarios so they can improve the expected health care results.
2. Apply skills of communication, collaboration, critical thought, and the use of technology as a provider and coordinator of care and as a future member of the profession.
3. Act as leaders and managers of the care that you are seeking to provide.
Attitudes
Lower Level
1. Demonstrate responsibility and ethical-legal commitment with humanistic care in response to the changing needs of society.
2. Demonstrate responsibility and commitment with their own development and that of the profession.
Upper Level
1. Apply humanistic care in the nursing practice to promote protection, optimization and the preservation of human dignity.
Student Learning Outcomes, Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice, and Student Profile Competencies and Roles
| Student Learning Outcomes | Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice | Student Profile Competencies and Roles |
| 1. Student will demonstrate knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety while providing high quality health care. | Essential II: Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety
Knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety are necessary to provide high quality health care.
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-Know the nursing process as an instrument for making clinical decisions while offering a safe and quality care (K2 lower level).
Provider of Care Role -Demonstrate theoretical and practical knowledge integrated into the safe and effective nursing care provided to individuals, families and communities. (K1 upper level). Provider of Care Role
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| 2. Student will apply current evidence into its practice. | Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence Based Practice
Professional nursing practice is grounded in the translation of current evidence into one’s practice.
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-Know critical thinking skills to make clinical judgments and to use research findings for the continuous improvement of the nursing practice. (K3 upper level). Provider of Care Role Designer/manager/coordinator of Care Role |
| 3. Student will apply knowledge and skills in information management and patient care technology in the
delivery of quality patient care. |
Essential IV: Information Management and Application of Patient Care Technology
Knowledge and skills in information management and patient care technology are critical in the delivery of quality patient care.
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-Use communication skills, critical thinking and the use of technology to maintain the quality of care offered to the client (S3 lower level). Provider of Care Role, Coordinator of Care
-Apply skills of communication, collaboration, critical thought, and the use of technology as a provider and coordinator of care and as a future member of the profession. (S2 upper level). Provider of Care Role, Designer/manager/coordinator of Care Role, Member of a Profession Role |
| 4. Student will demonstrate knowledge of healthcare policies, including financial and regulatory, that influence the nature and functioning of the healthcare system and thereby are important considerations in professional nursing practice. | Essential V: Health Care Policy, Finance, and Regulatory Environments
Healthcare policies, including financial and regulatory, directly and indirectly influence the nature and functioning of the healthcare system and thereby are important considerations in profession al nursing practice.
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-Act as leaders and managers of the care that you are seeking to provide. (S3 upper level)
Designer/manager/coordinator of Care Role
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| 5. Student will apply interprofessional communication and collaboration skills for improving patient health outcomes. | Essential VI: Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving
Patient Health Outcomes Communication and collaboration among healthcare professionals are critical to delivering high quality and safe patient care.
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-Demonstrate care management, coordination skills and effective collaboration as a member of the interdisciplinary team (S2 lower level). Provider of Care Role, Coordinator of Care Role
-Apply skills of communication, collaboration, critical thought, and the use of technology as a provider and coordinator of care and as a future member of the profession. (S2 upper level). Provider of Care Role, Designer/manager/coordinator of Care Role, Member of a Profession Role |
| 6. Student will demonstrate knowledge of health promotion and disease prevention at the individual and population level to improve population health. | Essential VII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health
Health promotion and disease prevention at the individual and population level are necessary to improve population health and are important components of baccalaureate generalist nursing practice.
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– Demonstrates up-to-date clinical skills in therapeutic interventions when you offer care to the client throughout the continuum of health-disease in structured scenarios (S1 lower level). Provider of Care Role
-Know the use of nursing interventions to prevent disease, and to promote, protect, maintain and restore health. (K2 upper level) Provider of Care Role |
| 7. Student will demonstrate professionalism and professional values in the practice of nursing care. | Essential VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values
Professionalism and the inherent values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice are fundamental to the discipline of nursing. |
– Demonstrate responsibility and ethical-legal commitment with humanistic care in response to the changing needs of society (A1 lower level). Provider of Care
-Demonstrate responsibility and commitment with their own development and that of the profession (A2 lower level). Member of a Profession Role -Apply humanistic care in the nursing practice to promote protection, optimization and the preservation of human dignity. (A1 upper level) Provider of Care Role, Member of a Profession Role |
| 8. The student nurse is prepared to practice with patients, including individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations across the lifespan and across the continuum of healthcare environments. | Essential IX: Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice
The baccalaureategraduate nurse is prepared to practice with patients, including individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations across the lifespan and across the continuum of healthcare environments.
The baccalaureate graduate understands nd respects the variations of care, the increased complexity, and the increased use of healthcare resources inherent in caring for patients.
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– Demonstrate scientific and humanistic knowledge of the nursing discipline when analyzing biopsychosocial and spiritual aspects in the different stages of growth and development (K1 lower level).
Provider of Care Role -Demonstrate theoretical and practical knowledge integrated into the safe and effective nursing care provided to individuals, families and communities. (K1 upper level). Provider of Care Role –Demonstrates up to date clinical skills in therapeutic interventions when you offer care to the client throughout the continuum of health-disease in structured scenarios (S1 lower level). Provider of Care Role -Use assessment and therapeutic interventions skills when providing nursing care in diverse scenarios so they can improve the expected health care results. (S1 upper level) Provider of Care Role |