Students are expected to achieve the following characteristics and attributes by the completion of their program.
Within the framework of primary health care and consistent with professional standards, the student will be able to:
- Integrate and apply knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to facilitate the delivery of evidence-based, person-centered, primary health care.
- Provide holistic, individualized, respectful, compassionate, and evidence-based person-centered care that affirms human diversity and promotes individual empowerment across the lifespan.
- Care for diverse populations across the healthcare delivery continuum (public health prevention to disease management) through collaborative activities with traditional and non-traditional partnerships (communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others) for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
- Evaluate and integrate the best evidence to provide primary health care, improve health, and transform health care.
- Use established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science to enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
- Collaborate in interprofessional partnerships with healthcare team members, patients, families, communities, and essential stakeholders to enhance primary health care delivery from a local through global perspective.
- Work within complex healthcare systems and coordinate resources to provide evidence-based, equitable, person-centered, cost-effective care.
- Use information and communication technologies to gather data that drives decision making in the delivery of high-quality, efficient, healthcare in accordance with best practice and professional/regulatory standards.
- Cultivate a professional nursing identity that demonstrates a collaborative disposition, integrity, accountability, and professional conduct for the legal and ethical principles of nursing practice.
- Participate in ongoing activities that foster resilience, personal well-being, life-long learning, acquisition of nursing expertise, and leadership in the delivery of primary health care.
