Northwest Florida State College RN to BSN Nursing Program

3. Serve as a change agent and client advocate in the practice of professional
nursing with individuals, families, groups, and communities.
4. Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning to promote personal and
professional development.
5. Employ current theories and principles of leadership and management in the
provision of quality nursing care.
6. Describe and use appropriate teaching and learning theories to design,
implement, and evaluate educational experiences for a diverse population of
clients.
7. Use higher order critical thinking skills (e.g. assessment, analysis, synthesis)
effectively by evaluating research findings through various sources to
determine their relevance and application to nursing practice.
8. Apply appropriate theory, practice, and research in health promotion and in
planning care for complex client situations.
9. Incorporate socio-cultural, ethnic, spiritual, and other unique individual
considerations into client care.
10. Evaluate and use the concepts of nursing theory and appropriate research
findings for evidence-based nursing practice.
11. Apply effective communication techniques to professional relationships,
teambuilding, and client care.
12. Use media resources and information technologies to enhance professional
practices derived by accessing, retrieving, and organizing information
acquired through various technological avenues throughout the program.
As the first students will be enrolled in the fall 2008 term, performance data is not
yet available on these outcomes. However, the tools and processes to collect and analyze
these outcomes have been established. (See Appendix I for a comprehensive overview of
the evaluation tools and processes; also see the evaluation plans and instruments in the
onsite resource room.)
Key Element I-B
The mission, goals, and expected outcomes of the program are reviewed periodically and
revised, as appropriate, to reflect professional standards and guidelines.
As part of the self-study process, the mission, goals and expected outcomes of the
program were reviewed by faculty, with an eye to the professional nursing standards and
guidelines in the Essentials. Additionally, the NWFSC program mission, goals and outcomes
were compared to those espoused by other quality BSN programs. As a result of this effort, the
original program outcomes associated with the UWF Cooperative BSN Program were revised
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