Program Outcomes - (HF30)

Upon successful completion of all program requirements, graduates of the Associate Degree Nursing Program will:

1. Demonstrate competency with verbal and nonverbal communication strategies that promote accurate exchange of information, prevent and manage conflict, and establish and maintain therapeutic relationships while caring for individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations within the health care system
2. Demonstrate the integration of best practices and current evidence into clinical decision making in the provision of patient-centered care for individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations within the health care system.
3. Use information and patient care technology to communicate, differentiate, and manage patient information to mitigate error, and support clinical decision-making in the management and coordination of evidence-based care for individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations within the health care system.
4.  Integrate leadership and priority-setting skills into the management and coordination of safe, quality patient-centered care for individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations within the health care system.
5. Identify, deliver, evaluate, and adapt nursing care to ensure that it is based upon the patient’s physiological, psychological, and sociological preferences, values, and needs and is
6. compassionate, age, and culturally appropriate for individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
7. Integrate integrity and accountability that upholds established regulatory, legal, and ethical principles into the management and coordination of cost effective, standard-based nursing care for individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations within the health care system.
8. Use quality improvement processes to promote the delivery of patient-centered care that supports optimum patient outcomes for the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations within the health care system. I 8. Demonstrate effective utilization of strategies to identify and mitigate near misses and errors to minimize the risk of harm and hazards, provide a safe environment, and promote a safe culture for patients, self, and others at the work unit and health care system levels within the health care system.
9. Analyze the impact of the health care system on the provision of safe, quality patient-centered care at the level of the work unit.
10. Collaborate with members of the interprofessional health care team to manage and coordinate the provision of safe, quality, patient-centered care of individuals, families groups, communities, and populations within the health care system.