WVWC BSN PROGRAM OUTCOMES
By completion of this program, the graduate will exhibit the following outcomes:
Nursing Core Concept 1: Professionalism in Practice
Program Outcomes:
A. Values caring, commitment and concern for individuals, families, groups and communities.
Level (Course) Outcomes:
Senior: Independently makes application of the concepts of caring, commitment and concern for individuals, families, groups and communities.
Junior: Makes guided application of the concepts of caring, commitment and concern for individuals, families and groups.
Sophomore: Recognizes how the concepts of caring, commitment, and concern relate to individuals, families and groups.
Freshman: Discusses how the concepts of caring, commitment and concern relate to the profession of nursing.
B. Provides culturally competent holistic nursing care to individuals, families, groups and communities.
Senior: Evaluates the impact of transcultural nursing on the effectiveness of providing competent holistic nursing care.
Junior: Incorporates knowledge of various cultural beliefs, values and practices in providing culturally competent holistic nursing care.
Sophomore: Identifies various cultural beliefs, values, and practices as they relate to health behaviors and provision of holistic nursing care.
Freshman: Examines one’s own cultural beliefs and values, and the potential influence on how one provides care.
C. Promotes a positive public image of nursing.
Senior: Articulates to the public the desired professional image of nursing.
Junior: Models a professional public image of nursing.
Sophomore: Demonstrates a positive public image of nursing with guided assistance.
Freshman: Differentiates between self-image of nursing, public image of nursing and desired professional image of nursing.
D. Recognizes nursing as an evolving profession whose contribution reflects the public’s well being.
Senior: Synthesizes how nursing as an evolving profession could better provide for the public’s well being.
Junior: Analyzes nursing’s contributions to the public’s well being.
Sophomore: Critically evaluates nursing as an evolving profession.
Freshman: Discusses the diversity of nursing opportunities available for the professional nurse.
E. Values commitment to lifelong learning.
Senior: Actively explores various options available for meeting established professional goals.
Junior: Evaluates and revises professional goals for nursing development.
Sophomore: Identifies professional goals for nursing development.
Freshman: Defines lifelong learning.
Nursing Core Concept 2: Critical Thinking for decision making in Nursing
Program Outcomes:
A. Applies previous/current knowledge to various contexts and new nursing situations.
Level (Course) Outcomes:
Senior: Synthesizes prior knowledge with current information in appropriately responding to new situations.
Junior: Applies previously learned information to new situations.
Sophomore: Examines new information within the context of previous knowledge.
Freshman: Participates in selected problem solving exercises that promote critical examination of nursing as a profession.
B. Analyzes nursing theories and research literature for use in nursing practice.
Senior: Makes application of nursing theory and research to practice to determine appropriate nursing care management.
Junior: Makes application of nursing theory and research to specific client care outcomes with minimum faculty guidance.
Sophomore: Uses nursing theory and research for application to health problems with moderate faculty guidance.
Freshman: Discusses the link between nursing theory, research and practice.
C. Uses the nursing process as a method for providing care that is based on critical analysis, client centered intervention strategies.
Senior: Independently uses the nursing process, in any setting, to provide health care.
Junior: Adapts the nursing process in caring for clients with varied health needs with minimum faculty guidance.
Sophomore: Begins to use the nursing process in caring for clients with health needs.
Freshman: Identifies the steps of the nursing process.
Nursing Core Concept 3: Ethical/legal framework for practice
Program Outcomes:
A. Articulates ethical and legal principles related to practice.
Level (Course) Outcomes:
Senior: Applies ethical and legal principles to health care situations.
Junior: Identifies current changes in health care that can create an ethical or legal situation for nurses or their clients.
Sophomore: Discusses ethical and legal principles that have application to specified practice situations.
Freshman: Examines beliefs, values and rights of self and others in making ethical and legal decisions that influence health.
B. Uses standards of care in nursing practice.
Senior: Synthesizes standards of care into individual nursing practice.
Junior: Analyzes specific areas of nursing care and relates care provided to standard of practice.
Sophomore: Examines standards of care pertinent to beginning nursing practice.
Freshman: Identifies the need for standards of care in nursing practice.
C. Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for nursing judgments and actions.
Senior: Models professional responsibility and accountability for nursing judgments and actions.
Junior: Demonstrates professional responsibility and accountability for nursing judgments and actions with limited guidance.
Sophomore: Demonstrates professional responsibility and accountability for nursing judgments and actions with guidance.
Freshman: Defines professional responsibility and accountability necessary for nursing judgments and actions.
Nursing Core Concept 4: Effective Communication in Professional Practice
Program Outcomes:
A. Uses effective communication techniques in professional practice.
Level (Course) Outcomes:
Senior: Evaluates the results of effective communication in a variety of interactions.
Junior: Uses effective communication techniques in a variety of interactions.
Sophomore: Begins to use effective communication techniques in selected interactions.
Freshman: Differentiates effective and ineffective communication techniques.
B. Demonstrates effective writing skills consistent with the college and program expectations.
Senior: Creates a capstone and/or professional nursing paper which is consistent with the college and program expectations.
Junior: Composes a clinical case study which is consistent with the college and program expectations.
Sophomore: Prepares a professional, scholarly paper which is consistent with the college and program expectations.
Freshman: Produces a reaction paper which is consistent with the college and program expectations.
C. Manages information technology in facilitating communication.
Senior: Manages information technology in problem solving situations.
Junior: Utilizes information technology to facilitate nursing care.
Sophomore: Utilizes technology to obtain nursing knowledge.
Freshman: Demonstrates basic skills in use of computers with nursing assignments.
Nursing Core Concept 5: Service Commitment Within The Rural Community
Program Outcomes:
A: Serves within the community to collaboratively access community resources to meet social and health care needs to maximize client health potentials by assisting them in meeting their health promotion needs.
Level (Course) Outcomes:
Senior: Synthesizes issues to meet the service needs of people in rural environments. Provides health promotion programs/activities that maximize client’s health potential.
Junior: Provides for service needs of people in rural environments. Participates in health promotion programs and activities with guided assistance.
Sophomore: Provides service by critically examining personal strengths necessary for meeting diverse needs of people. Begins to incorporate client strengths/health potential in providing client care.
Freshman: Explains the role of service learning in meeting needs of people. Identifies own strengths and health potential.
B. Functions within an interdisciplinary team.
Senior: Evaluates outcomes related to interdisciplinary team efforts.
Junior: Contributes to outcomes derived in an interdisciplinary team setting.
Sophomore: Compares roles of various interdisciplinary team members.
Freshman: Defines the functions of an interdisciplinary team.
C. Participates as a politically aware individual in promoting the profession and the practice of nursing.
Senior: Evaluates the effectiveness of nursing in influencing health care policy decisions at the community, state, national, and global levels.
Junior: Discusses nursing’s role in shaping health care policies and how policies can shape nursing practice.
Sophomore: Analyzes the positive and negative impact that politics can have on health policy decisions.
Freshman: Develops awareness of political factors influencing health policy.
Nursing Core Concept 6: Multiple Role Integration in Practice
Program Outcomes:
A. Assumes an amalgam of roles in providing nursing care for clients in multiple settings.
Level (Course) Outcomes:
Senior: Assumes an amalgam of roles in providing nursing care for clients in multiple settings.
Junior: Uses the amalgam of roles in nursing practice with minimal guidance.
Sophomore: Begins to use the amalgam of roles in nursing practice with guided assistance.
Freshman: Discusses the amalgam of roles.
B. Assumes the role of provider of care incorporating advocate, counselor & teacher roles including health promotion/disease prevention or information in all setting for individuals, families, groups and communities.
Senior: Models the role of provider of care incorporating advocate, counselor and teacher roles. Creates nursing strategies to promote health and prevent disease for individuals, families, groups and communities.
Junior: Uses the role of provider of care incorporating advocate, counselor and teacher roles. Implements nursing strategies to promote health and prevent disease for individuals, families, and groups in selected settings.
Sophomore: Begins to use the role of provider of care incorporating advocate, counselor and teacher roles with guided assistance. Discusses nursing strategies to promote health and prevent diseases in self and others.
Freshman: Defines the role of provider of care incorporating advocate, counselor and teacher roles. Defines health promotion and disease prevention
C. Collaborates with multiple healthcare team members.
Senior: Models the role of collaborator in all settings.
Junior: Collaborates with other healthcare team members with minimum faculty
guidance.
Sophomore: Begins to use the role of collaborator with faculty guidance.
Freshman: Defines the role of collaborator.
D. Exhibits leadership/management skills in coordinating healthcare services and promoting positive change.
Senior: Models the role of leader and manager in coordinating healthcare services and promotes positive change.
Junior: Exhibits leadership/management skills in coordinating healthcare services and promotes positive change.
Sophomore: Recognizes the need for leadership/management when incorporating change in healthcare services.
Freshman: Defines the role of leader/manager incorporating the role of change agent.
E. Participates in and uses nursing research in practice.
Senior: Participates in data collection and analysis in nursing research.
Junior: Applies nursing research findings in various practice settings.
Sophomore: Identifies nursing research as a guide for practice.
Freshman: Defines the role of the baccalaureate nurse in research
Nursing Core Concept 7: Healthcare management skills
Program Outcomes:
A. Uses effectively human, fiscal and material resources to provide quality care outcomes.
Level (Course) Outcomes:
Senior: Uses available human, fiscal and material resources in the provision of quality care outcomes.
Junior: Begins to use available human, fiscal and material resources in the provision of quality care outcomes.
Sophomore: Discusses the relationship of human, fiscal and material resources in the provision of quality care outcomes.
Freshman: Examines the availability of human, fiscal and material resources in provision of quality care outcomes.
B. Delegates responsibilities to persons best qualified to complete them.
Senior: Delegates care responsibilities to other members of the healthcare team appropriately with minimal faculty guidance.
Junior: Delegates care responsibilities to other members of the healthcare team appropriately with moderate faculty guidance.
Sophomore: Delegates responsibilities to peers in related nursing assignments.
Freshman: Discusses the process of delegation and the inherent responsibilities.
C. Evaluates outcomes of management decisions.
Senior: Evaluates effectiveness of management decisions.
Junior: Recognizes managerial decision making.
Sophomore: Identifies factors that influence management decisions.
Freshman: Assumes personal responsibilities for meeting expectations of specified assignments