Appendix III-B.1
BSN Essential Outcomes Aligned with Course, Competency, Related Learning Activity and Expected Aggregate Student Outcomes
Baccalaureate Essential
Outcome
Essential I
1.5: Apply knowledge of social and
cultural factors to the care of
diverse populations
Essential II
2.1: Apply leadership concepts,
skills, and decision making in the
provision of high quality nursing
care, healthcare team
coordination, the oversight and
accountability for care delivery in a
variety of settings
Essential III
3.3: Advocate for the protection of
human subjects in the conduct of
research.
Essential IV
4.1 Demonstrate skills in using
patient care technologies,
information systems, and
communication devices that
support safe nursing practice.
Program Outcomes
Provide compassionate,
patient-centered care to
individuals, families, and
communities from a variety
of cultures across the
lifespan
Apply leadership skills to
engage others in creating,
promoting and managing a
healing environment.
Example of Course and
Related Competency
DCC1: Critical Care Nursing
Competency 726.9.5 Caring for
the Psychosocial Needs of the
Critically Ill Patient
Example of Related Learning
Activity
Students assess social and cultural
issues impacting care of critically ill
patients in clinical simulation
laboratory and acute care settings
Expected
Aggregate Student
Outcomes
Graduation Rates
13-month Retention
Rates
On-time progression
PYT1: Leadership Experience
Competency 726.10.2:
Manager of the Healing
Environment.
Students complete projects in which
they demonstrate and build
leadership skills in identifying
relevant, high priority organizational
problems and propose realistic
solutions.
Student Satisfaction
Rates
NCLEX-RN Pass Rates
Employment Rates
Use clinical reasoning to
provide safe, quality nursing
care based on the best
available evidence and
ethical principles
EBT1: Evidence Based Practice
and Applied Nursing Research
Use information technology
to communicate, mitigate
error, and make decisions
related to the provision of
patient care. Support
incorporation of nursing
knowledge in the
development of patient care
technology.
ATC1: Information
Management and the
Application of Technology
Competency 724.8.3: Research
Integration
Competency 744.1.4:
Electronic Health Record
Students address ethical
considerations of research in
healthcare and the protection of
vulnerable populations; choose and
complete at least two ethical case
studies from the “Ethics in Medicine”
website.
Use of electronic Health Records in
clinical laboratory and acute
healthcare settings in the provision of
nursing care
Alumni Satisfaction
Rates
Employer Satisfaction
Rates
Essential V
5.2: Describe how health care is
organized and financed, including
the implications of business
principles, such as patient and
system cost factors.
Essential VI
6.3: Incorporate effective
communication techniques,
including negotiation and conflict
resolution to produce positive
professional working relationships.
Assume accountability for
providing and ensuring safe,
efficient, quality care
congruent with ethical,
professional and legal
standards.
Engage in interprofessional
collaboration to improve
safety and quality of health
care.
PYT1: Leadership Experience
Competency 726.10.2:
Manager of the Healing
Environment.
Students performs cost-benefit
analysis in proposal for solution to a
complex problem in the organization
Graduation Rates
Student Satisfaction
Rates
NCLEX-RN Pass Rates
DYVI: Role Transitions
Competency 726.10.1: Optimal
Care Environment
Essential VII
7.1: Assess protective and
predictive factors, including
genetics, which influence the
health of individuals, families,
groups, communities, and
populations.
Essential VIII
8.2: Assume accountability for
personal and professional
behaviors.
Incorporate knowledge of
genetics and genomics into
the care of patients, families
and communities
SZT1: Community and
Population Health
Assume accountability for
providing and ensuring safe,
efficient, quality care
congruent with ethical,
professional and legal
standards
RUC1: Professional Roles and
Values
Essential IX
9.15: Manage care to maximize
health, independence, and quality
of life for a group of individuals
that approximates a beginning
practitioner’s workload.
Apply leadership skills to
engage others in creating,
promoting and managing a
healing environment.
DYVI: Role Transitions
Competency 743.1.1:
Epidemiology
740.1.4: Professional
Accountability
Competency 726.10.4: The
Nurse as Detective
Students attend three
interdisciplinary team meetings;
discuss two goals of each of the three
interdisciplinary teams they observed
or participated with and describe
measures to improve their
participation
Students complete a comprehensive
assessment of a specified community
using variety of data sources such as
health indicators, epidemiological,
economic, and cultural to develop a
community diagnosis.
Students complete course module
that includes topics such as entry and
scope of practice; requirements for
prescriptive authority of nurses,
compact guidelines and processes for
disciplinary action against nurses who
violate the nurse practice act
Students complete 180 hours with
assigned preceptors in clinical
practicum course.
Employment Rates
Alumni Satisfaction
Rates
Employer Satisfaction
Rates
95% of employers satisfied or very satisfied with graduates
95% students satisfied or very satisfied with nursing program
87% NCLEX-RN 1st time pass rate
90% 13-month retention rate for Prelicensure students
85% 13-month retention rate for RN to BSN students
88% retention rate for MSN students
52% graduation rate for Prelicensure students
71% graduation rate for RN to BSN students
60% graduation rate for MSN student
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