ACONHP Goals and Student Outcomes
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