Faculty & Staff

Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs

• Integrate understanding of multiple dimensions of patient-centered care using the basic human needs of oxygenation, elimination, self-esteem, nutrition, safety, activity, sexuality, spirituality, communication, and comfort & hygiene
• Determine personally held attitudes about working with patients from different ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds through self-reflection evaluation
• Communicate patient values, preferences and expressed needs, including growth and development to interdisciplinary member
• Demonstrate clinical reasoning through the prioritization of and multiple threats to patients’ needs.

Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering personal accountability, open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care

• Value importance of integrity, consistency, and respect for differing view
• Identify and differentiate team member roles and their contributions to achieve patient goal
• Participate in effective communication practices that minimize risks across the continuum 
• Develop appropriate interpersonal relationships that facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration.

Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal healthcare

• Develop and implement an individualized plan of care that incorporates current evidence and patient/family perspective
• Explain the applicability of evidence-based pharmacology and health promotion resources for interventions in patient-centered care
• Identify and demonstrate the legal/ethical/political aspects that affect the scope of practice and current client care.

Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems

• Recognize the importance of continual assessment processes to improve the quality of care
• Utilize various tools and technologies to measure patient-centered outcome
• Identify/integrate core measures in clinical environment.

Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance

• Integrate strategies related to safety principles in patient-centered care
• Support factors that create a culture of safety
• Utilize National Patient Safety Goals as a focus for providing safe patient care
• Value own role in preventing errors.

Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making

• Identify the essential technological skills required for safe patient care
• Apply information management tools in clinical and simulation activities to support safe processes of care
• Adhere to the confidentiality of Protected Health Information (PHI).

• Integrate awareness of global health issues that impact individuals, families, and communities.

Work collaboratively with the broader community, addressing issues affecting the wellbeing of individuals, families, and groups.

• Plan/implement/evaluate service-learning experiences in the community
• Value the role of the nurse in promoting a healthy community.
• Support the diversity of the community.

Engage in activities that promote self-care, professional growth, ethical and legal responsibilities in the practice of nursing.

• Engage in activities that promote self-care, professional growth, ethical and legal responsibilities in the practice of nursing.
• Develop insight to one’s own values, strengths, and personal needs.
• Value lifelong learning and professional service.
• Practice according to professional standards and within legal standards.

 Amended 10/07/2020