Professional Nursing Goals

• Anderson College of Nursing & Health Professions: Provide high quality, innovative educational nursing programs
  • Undergraduate: Offer a high quality baccalaureate nursing degree program
  • Graduate: Offer high quality online MSN and post-master’s certificate programs.
• Anderson College of Nursing & Health Professions: To build and maintain a student-centered nursing program
  • Undergraduate and Graduate: Graduate nurses who are prepared to practice nursing in global healthcare environments
• Anderson College of Nursing & Health Professions: Provide a culturally diverse environment for students, faculty, and staff
  • Undergraduate & Graduate: Promote a culturally diverse learning environment designed to eliminate barriers to learning
• Anderson College of Nursing & Health Professions: Develop partnerships with community agencies to expand healthcare to the community
  • Undergraduate & Graduate: Develop and nurture a strong relationship with community health facilities and health professionals
• Anderson College of Nursing & Health Professions: Promote research and scholarly activities that advance nursing knowledge
  • Undergraduate & Graduate: Foster scholarly activities, research, teaching, service, and practice that advance the knowledge base of nursing

BSN Program Outcomes

• Function as beginning practitioners in professional nursing
• Possess a foundation for graduate study
• Synthesize knowledge from a broad educational foundation upon which professional nursing practice is based
• Communicate and collaborate with members of the health team and other interested groups in identifying and meeting the health needs of individuals, families and communities nationally and internationally
• Demonstrate an understanding of the need for continuous personal and professional growth
• Possess basic knowledge about research and its application to practice
• Develop interpersonal and technological skills necessary to assume leadership roles within the BSN scope of practice