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Program and Student Learning Outcomes
The purpose of the Kennesaw State University Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing Program is to prepare graduates for generalist nursing practice. Graduates will be prepared to practice with patients—including individuals, families, groups, and populations—across the lifespan and across the continuum of healthcare environments.
Program Outcomes
The Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing program will:
- Demonstrate quality by maintaining both professional accreditation through the Commission
on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and acceptable
performance of graduates on the National Council State Boards of Nursing License Exam
(NCLEX).
- Provide a learning environment that ensures meeting the program benchmark for graduation
rates.
- Prepare graduates for success in attaining employment in the nursing profession
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing program, graduates will:
- Synthesize knowledge from a liberal education including social science, natural science,
nursing science and the art and ethics of caring as a foundation for providing holistic
nursing care.
- Implement competent, patient-centered care of individuals, families, groups, communities,
and populations along the health-illness continuum and throughout the lifespan within
multicultural environments.
- Utilize leadership skills to critically examine and continuously improve healthcare
delivery systems, with emphasis on safety, quality, and fiscal responsibility.
- Analyze current research and apply conceptual/theoretical models for translating evidence
into clinical practice.
- Apply knowledge and skills in information management and patient care technology in
the delivery of quality patient care.
- Identify the significance of local, state, national, and global healthcare policies
including financial and regulatory environments.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills with an interdisciplinary healthcare team
including collaboration, negotiation and conflict management.
- Employ principles of health promotion, and disease/injury prevention in providing
care to individuals and populations.
- Assume responsibility and accountability for professionalism, including lifelong learning,
and the inherent values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity and respect
in the practice of nursing.
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