For Students Admitted Prior to January 2024:

Communication and Collaboration Skills
Collaborate and communicate effectively with health care team members, patients and patients’ support networks to implement patient-centered care including appropriate teaching for developmental stage, age, culture, and health literacy to ensure high quality outcomes. Use information technologies to assist in effective communication, facilitate patient care, and integrate evidence from all relevant resources to promote high quality patient outcomes within microsystems and greater healthcare systems.

Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment in Clinical Practice
Demonstrate clinical judgment grounded in theories and concepts from liberal and nursing education in the delivery of efficient, safe, compassionate, and evidence- based care. Exhibit ethics, caring and accountability for patient outcomes in all aspects of professional nursing practice.

Scholarship for Evidenced Based Practice Skills
Implement evidence-based interventions to promote health, prevent disease and manage acute and chronic care of patients across the lifespan. Demonstrate consistent self-reflection techniques to identify learning needs especially in areas where knowledge is complex and changing rapidly.

Clinical Prevention and Population Health Skills
Implement patient-centered care emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention to individuals, families and populations reflecting an understanding of human growth and development, psychobiological factors, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and management across the health – illness continuum. Use clinical judgment with attention to effectiveness, efficacy, and equality in providing nursing care during disaster, mass casualty, and other emergency situations.

Diversity Skills
Demonstrate a wide range of knowledge, skills and attitudes including cultural awareness, humility, sensitivity and competency. Incorporate holistic assessments, awareness of values and spiritual beliefs in the delivery of quality patient and family centered, evidence-based care of diverse and vulnerable populations.

Leadership Skills
Demonstrate ethical and critical decision making skills, mutually respectful communication, collaboration, delegation, and conflict resolution techniques. Facilitate patient-centered transitions of care using leadership skills based on current evidence, ongoing assessment of outcome measures, quality improvement and safety initiatives. Coordinate and manage care for diverse individuals, families, groups and populations in order to maximize health, independence, and quality of life at the microsystem level. Demonstrate an understanding of the ambiguity and unpredictability of complex factors effecting health care such as health care policy, finance, and regulatory environments including local, national and global trend on equitable care of vulnerable populations.

For Students Admitted January 2024 and after:

1. Apply clinical judgment grounded in nursing science and knowledge from other disciplines to provide person-centered care and therapeutic communication for diverse individuals and families across the lifespan. 

2. Advocate for health equity through policy, health promotion, care coordination, and disease prevention strategies. 

3. Employ scholarly and ethical approaches in the review, evaluation, and application of evidence to improve health and health care delivery. 

4. Apply knowledge and skills of information and communication technologies to deliver safe, quality nursing care. 

5. Engage in interprofessional collaboration and communication to provide person-centered care. 

6. Integrate a systems-based approach to provide safe, equitable, and cost-effective care. 

7. Establish a professional identity guided by nursing knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values. 

8. Develop leadership behaviors for leading self, others, and health care.