ACONHP Goals and Student Outcomes
ACONHP Goals
- Provide high quality, innovative student-centered nursing and health related programs built upon scientific disciplines.
- Graduate nurses and health professionals who are prepared to practice person-centered care in diverse local, regional, and global healthcare environments.
- Promote scholarship, scholarly activities, teaching, service, and practice that advances quality, safety, and knowledge in healthcare.
- Develop professional partnerships across professions to enhance healthcare within complex systems.
- Optimize the use of information processes and technologies in healthcare practices.
- Foster a spirit of professional excellence and resilience amongst a diverse population of students, faculty, and staff.
BSN Student Outcomes
- Function in professional nursing roles.
- Synthesize knowledge from a broad educational foundation upon which professional nursing practice is based.
- Collaborate with members of health team and other interested groups in identifying and meeting the health needs of individuals, families, and communities.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the need for continuous personal and professional growth.
- Acquire basic knowledge about research and the implementation of best evidence into practice.
- Develop interpersonal and technological skills necessary to assume leadership roles within the BSN scope of practice.
MSN & Post-Masters Certificate Student Outcomes
- Develop competencies in advanced nursing practice, teaching, and/or leadership.
- Facilitate quality care across the lifespan utilizing a systems approach.
- Integrate ethical decision-making to provide culturally competent care.
- Cultivate collaborative relationships across diverse disciplines to improve patient and population health outcomes.
- Integrate evidence-based practice to advance the profession of nursing.
- Incorporate current and emerging technologies to improve health outcomes.
DNP Student Outcomes
- Construct a scientific knowledge base for nursing practice.
- Incorporate current healthcare delivery approaches that guide person-centered care.
- Summarize principles of safety and quality into practice.
- Assemble evidence-based nursing knowledge to improve population health outcomes.
- Integrate present and emerging health technologies to deliver safe, high-quality healthcare.
- Cultivate a healthcare system that advocates for equitable healthcare across all populations.
- Facilitate interprofessional collaboration that enhances patient or population outcomes.
- Generate strategies that promote improved health outcomes for all populations.
- Relate nursing knowledge to practice for the promotion of the profession.