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Learning Outcomes

Graduates will demonstrate the professional nurse role of provider and coordinator of care by:

1. Establishing a professional nursing practice informed by Catholic and Benedictine traditions and values.
2. Integrating professional values and standards and Liberal Arts and sciences in community-based and population-focused nursing care.
3. Providing high quality professional nursing care in health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention and illness and disease management.
4. Communicating effectively in oral, written nonverbal, and electronic forms.
5. Maximizing client health outcomes using critical thinking and evidenced-based practice.
6. Providing socially responsible and ethical leadership dedicated to improving the human health condition.
7. Advocating for health care that is culturally and ethnically sensitive to the unique needs of populations in local and global settings.

Approved 3/19/01