Nursing Major

Program Learning Goals. Upon Completion:

1: Christ-Like Caring - Consistently demonstrates a commitment to Christ-like empathetic and compassionate caring by respecting the sanctity and dignity of created life, living a physical, intellectual, affective and spiritual attentiveness to clients moment by moment as they live their health and illness and as they make meaning in situation.

2: Shalom- Consistently demonstrates a commitment to Jesus’ healing ministry by promoting Shalom in relationship with diverse individuals, families and groups across the lifespan and in living as a servant leader in promoting Shalom for the public. 

3: Critical Thinking- Within a personalized Christian philosophy of nursing, synthesizes breadth and depth of knowledge from the humanities, natural and social sciences in providing wholistic nursing care to diverse individuals, families and groups across the lifespan and in analysis of professional and social and ethical issues. 

4: Ethics/Social Justice- Within a personalized Christian Philosophy of nursing, lives as a servant leader in conforming character and practice to the ANA Code of Ethics, the Code of Christian Nursing Ethics, the Statement of Professional Conduct, and in advocating for local, national, and global health care policy that practices Shalom for all people.

5: Nursing Process/Levels of Prevention- Utilizes the nursing process in promoting Shalom for diverse individuals, families and groups across the lifespan in structured and unstructured settings by promoting prevention (health education and risk reduction), secondary prevention (restoration), and tertiary prevention (maintenance of wholistic health) in promoting quality and patient-centered nursing care. The nursing process includes relational, diagnostic, therapeutic and evaluative dimensions.

6: Communication Abilities-Oral and Written- Consistently and effectively communicates orally and in writing with clients, families, other health and social-service providers and the public to promote, restore and maintain the wholistic health of diverse individuals, families and groups across the lifespan.

7: Relationship with Diverse Others- Develops and sustains therapeutic working relationships with diverse clients across the lifespan which respect cultural, racial, socioeconomic and spiritual diversity and integrate knowledge of these influence’s impact on the experience of health and illness in planning, providing and evaluating patient-centered nursing care in a variety of settings.

8: Research/Informatics- Integrates nursing theory, research evidence and information technology in providing wholistic nursing care to diverse individuals, families and groups across the lifespan and in analysis of professional, ethical, and social issues. 

 9: Member of a Professional/Leadership- Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong learning in living the multi-dimensional roles as a professional nurse in designing, providing, managing, and improving quality and safety-based patient centered, coordinated nursing care, and contributing to the development of nursing as a profession.