BSN Program Competencies

Graduates of the BSN Pre-licensure program will be able to:

1. Demonstrate critical thinking skills and clinical judgment in the planning and provision of person-centered care, across diverse populations.
2. Communicate effectively in a variety of spoken, written, and technological formats to facilitate safe, effective, quality care.
3. Demonstrate competence, initiative, and commitment to the nursing profession through the refinement of a nursing identity, accountability, and application of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.
4. Integrate knowledge from nursing, evidence-based practice, arts and sciences, to deliver safe, quality, person-centered health care in accordance with the ANA Standards of Care and the Code of Ethics for Nurses across diverse populations.
5. Engage in self-reflection to promote personal wellbeing, leadership capacity, accountability, and lifelong professional development to support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.
6. Provide compassionate, sensitive, spiritual, person-centered care for clients at any stage of the life span across diverse populations.
7. Integrate information management and client care technologies to provide safe, equitable care for individuals and communities across diverse populations.
8. Create a health care environment that is conducive to wellness and health promotion, chronic disease management, restoration of health, or supportive care of non-curative conditions across diverse populations.
9. Facilitate coordination of care activities that anticipate client needs and provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
10. Engage in collaborative efforts spanning professions, health care teams, clients, families, communities, and diverse stakeholders to optimize care and strengthen outcomes. 

Graduates of the BSN Post-licensure program will be able to:

1. Assume a leadership role in promoting quality and compliance regarding safety and health in a complex health care environment.
2. Develop effective clinical reasoning skills utilizing evidence based guidelines.
3. Use informatics to support safe and effective patient care environments and to assist in patient and interprofessional communication.
4. Evaluate health care policy, financial and regulatory environments that impact delivery of health care services.
5. Develop effective interprofessional communication and collaboration and function effectively in interprofessional teams.
6. Promote individual and population health through health promotion and mitigation of acute and chronic illness.
7. Exhibit professional behaviors that are accountable, ethical, legal and moral.