Degree Outcomes

• Provide safe, quality, holistic, evidence-based patient-centered care in a variety of health care settings to diverse patient populations across the lifespan;
• Use critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make patient-centered care decisions;
• Implement quality improvement strategies within a variety of health care systems;
• Collaborate and communicate with patients, health care professionals, and members of community groups to improve health outcomes;
• Use information management systems and patient care technology when providing patient care;
• Engage in leadership/management of care activities to improve direct and indirect patient care within a variety of health care systems;
• Assimilate professional, legal, and ethical guidelines in practice as a professional nurse;
• Develop authentic caring, culturally sensitive relationships with patients to promote wellness, prevent disease, and facilitate well-being.

Career & Salary

Students 

As a nursing student, you’ll take a wide range of engaging classes, including:

• NURS 304 Nursing Skills and Technology
• NURS 360 Managing Care of Adults
• NURS 351 Nursing Care of the Childbearing Families
• NURS 404 Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
• NURS 420 Evidence-Based Practice and Research in Nursing
• NURS 442 Nursing Leadership, Management and Health Policy
• NURS 448 Professional Human Care Nursing