Nursing Program Objectives
The SU Nursing program has five overall objectives that identify the expected outcomes for our graduates. Program objectives are delineated into distinct levels, which determine course content and appropriate progression to more complex learning within the nursing program.
Program Objective 1: Integrates the philosophy of the nursing program with respect to person, health, environment, and nursing through relationships with clients/patients, other students, faculty, and health care colleagues.
Program Objective 2: Demonstrates professional values and behaviors consistent with nursing roles of communicator, partner, and integrator of care.
Program Objective 3: Uses critical thinking skills of sound reasoning, independent thinking, and creativity in the phases of the nursing process to provide care based on theory and research for clients/patients.
Program Objective 4: Applies theory-based decision making in the delivery of safe and competent nursing care to individuals, families, and groups in diverse setting and across the life span, encompassing health promotion, health maintenance, and health restoration.
Program Objective 5: Integrates communication theories in interpersonal and therapeutic relationships through the appropriate use of verbal, nonverbal, written, and information technology skills in professional nursing practice.
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