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Department
Goals
- Provide
quality-learning experiences for nursing students that prepare
graduates for practice as competent, caring, ethical and
accountable entry level professional nurse.
- Maintain
approval of the Colorado Board of Nursing and national accrediting
agencies.
- Facilitate licensed practical, associate degree and diploma
nurses achievement of baccalaureate education consistent with the
Colorado Nursing Articulation Model.
- Serve as the regional nursing education center for Southern
Colorado, collaborating with local and regional health care
agencies by maintaining a program curriculum congruent with the
expectations of the agencies, university and students.
BSN Expected Student
Outcomes
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Practice nursing using a human needs framework
incorporating multi-disciplinary theories.
- Demonstrate entry level competence in providing nursing
care to individuals, families, groups and communities.
- Employ critical thinking utilizing the nursing process and
results of research to manage client care.
- Incorporate caring (commitment, compassion, conscience,
competence, confidence) into professional nursing practice.
- Integrate nursing roles for professional nurses as defined
in the Colorado Nursing Articulation Model.
- Facilitate effective, purposeful communication between self
and others (peers, clients, and other professionals) to promote
common goals in diverse health care settings.
- Evaluate the influence of the complex interactions of
multiple environmental factors on the formulation of health care
plans to meet the health and safety needs of individuals, families
and communities.
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Demonstrate behaviors that reflect professional ethics and
accountability congruent with the American Nurses’ Association
(ANA) code of ethics and the State Nurses Practice Acts in the
provision of non-discriminatory nursing care to clients.
Master
Expected Student Outcomes
The MSN ACNP Program is
designed to prepare the graduate to:
- Demonstrate competence
and caring in advanced clinical practice to improve the quality
of the health care of clients in a variety of settings.
- Synthesize and analyze
advanced knowledge using theories, research, concepts and
principles from Nursing, behavioral, social, physiological
and pharmacological disciplines in the area of advanced clinical
practice.
- Communicate and collaborate
with health care consumers, professionals, managed care, governments
and other groups to manage care and enhance the health and
wellness needs of clients.
- Integrate the roles of
education, researcher, consultant, provider, leader, and manager
into advanced clinical Nursing practice.
- Integrate ethical and
legal dimensions confronting health care environment and the
Nursing profession.
- Use the scientific method
to assess, analyze and diagnose the complex clinical or non-clinical
health care needs of clients related to their wellness, health
and illness.
- Use theory and research
in understanding clinical needs and in determining Nursing
interventions, therapeutics and clinical management options.
- Incorporate standards
of professional nursing practice, personal values, caring,
integrity, research, and commitment to life long learning
to insure quality of care for the client across the lifespan.
- Critically evaluate and
use appropriate educational technologies, and resources for
clinical decision making and to promote health maintenance
and disease prevention.
Outcome
Assessment
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Assessment of clinical competencies.
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Individual and class scores in the department and
standardized testing program.
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An end of program evaluation survey and a graduate follow
up survey of nursing graduates and their employers one year and
five years after graduation.
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National Certification of Licensure Examination (NCLEX)
required of graduates prior to professional nursing practice as a
registered nurse.
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