The purpose of the Kennesaw State University Baccalaureate Degree Nursing Program is to prepare students as beginning practitioners. Upon completion of the Baccalaureate Degree Nursing Program, graduates will prepared as registered professional nurses to:
- Synthesize knowledge from the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities, nursing science, and the art and ethics of caring as a basic for providing holistic care to clients throughout the life span, include end-of-life.
- Utilize the care-giving process to provide safe, culturally congruent, and age-specific therapeutic interventions with diverse clients to promote holistic health through primary, secondary and tertiary prevention activities in a variety of healthcare settings.
- Demonstrate critical thinking as a basic for practice, clinical judgment, and ethics, and as the foundation for investigation of healthcare issues, and the application of the results of research to the provision of therapeutic client care.
- Communicate effectively in written and spoke form with clients, colleagues and interdisciplinary health team members through the use of multiple expressive caring modes and through the use of advanced information and communication technologies.
- Apply the teaching-learning process to accommodate the evolving needs of clients and self toward the attainment of holistic well- being.
- Facilitate the management process with clients and interdisciplinary health team members to promote health, reduce risk, prevent disease, and intervene during episodes of illness.
- Utilize leadership skills to critically examine and advocate for the improved healthcare of clients by understanding healthcare delivery systems as shaped by healthcare policy, and societal norms and expectations.
- Assume responsibility and accountability for personal and professional behavior, ethical practice and client advocacy, especially for vulnerable clients.
- Participate in the analysis, critique and reform of the political social, cultural, economic, technologic, genetic, and ecologic conditions that influence nursing and healthcare environments at the regional, national and international levels.
Primary Care Nursing Program
Program Outcomes
The Primary Care Nursing Program build upon the competencies establish during Baccalaureate Nursing education.
The Primary Care Nursing Program at Kennesaw State University enables graduate to:
- Provide culturally competent and age specific primary care to diverse clients based on a strong theoretical and research foundation thereby improving healthcare delivery, and client care outcomes.
- Use critical thinking, clinical judgment skills and ethics to make safe independent and interdependent clinical decisions, incorporating principles of health promotion, assessment, diagnosis and management of client potential, and actual healthcare problems in a variety of setting.
- Utilize therapeutic and professional communication techniques with clients, colleagues and other healthcare professionals in order to facilitate client self care, coordinate services, secure consultations and referrals by using advanced information and communication technologies when appropriate.
- Assume the role of the advanced practice nurse by demonstrating accountability for the quality of one’s own practice, engaging in professional activities, advocating for change and working effectively in interdisciplinary relationships.
- Demonstrate leadership in roles as divergent as clinician, teacher, mentor, advocate, participant, and manager in a variety of areas such as education, practice, and community health programs by influencing healthcare delivery systems as shaped by healthcare policy and societal norms and expectations.
