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Department of Nursing Program Objectives

• Offer a nationally accredited Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing.
• Enhance higher order thinking, communication, research, and therapeutic interventions in the practice of professional nursing.
• Promote lifelong learning activities for personal and professional development.
• Furnish a foundation for management and leadership roles in nursing.
• Prepare graduates to use Standards of Clinical Nursing Practice in a variety of settings.
• Provide a foundation for graduate education studies in nursing.
• Promote empathy for the values and perspectives of diverse cultures including an awareness of international and multicultural influences in nursing.

Graduate Outcomes - Upon Completion of the program the graduate will:

• Apply the Neuman systems model in the promotion of the person's optimal systems stability.
• Promote health by empowering the person through health education.
• Provide self-directed contemporary health care through application of the nursing process.
• Practice within the professional standards of care.
• Use current technologies in providing culturally sensitive care through primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
• Manage health care delivery through coordination, collaboration, and delegation.
• Integrate communication strategies in interacting with the person.
• Apply nursing and health related research to nursing practice.