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BSN Objectives

In order to achieve the program objectives, the curriculum is organized within four years.  The Freshman is year one; the Sophomore is year two; the Junior is year three and the Senior is year four. At the completion of each year,  the program is designed so that you will meet the following objectives.

Years One and Two Objectives

• Recognize the interrelationship of the components of Body/Spirit/Mind in self and others

• Apply principles of communication to understand and facilitate interactions between individuals

• Apply principles of critical thinking and decision making, derived from the sciences, 
  humanities, and nursing in making and evaluating decisions affecting self and others

• Identify various developmental theories in the assessment of self and others

• Identify placement of self and individual client along the wellness-illness continuum

• Apply components of the nursing process to provide basic health care for self and selected others

• Perform nursing care skills guided by basic nursing principles

• Recognize the value of research in the expansion of nursing theory

• Identify the role of self in the varied and changing delivery of human health care

• Recognize issues and trends which impact the multidimensional professional nursing role

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Year Three Objectives

• Utilize caring strategies to meet the Body/Spirit/Mind need of individual clients

• Incorporate effective therapeutic communication into the provision of client care

• Analyze critical thinking and decision making utilized in the provision and revision of 
  client care

• Apply developmental theories to the nursing care of clients

• Develop and execute a plan of care for individual clients recognizing their changing 
  placement on the wellness/illness continuum

• Integrate all components of the nursing process to provide nursing care to individual clients

• Incorporate an expanded knowledge of nursing principles while safely performing skills

• Critically analyze the research process

• Manage individual client care

• Apply knowledge of professional nursing roles including researcher, resource person, educator and client advocate within a changing environment

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Year Four Objectives

• Enhance the Body/Spirit/Mind potential of clients, families and groups through the practice of human caring

• Establish effective communication to facilitate individual and group processes in promoting optimal societal health care

• Formulate nursing decisions which utilize critical thinking and are based on independent judgments derived from the knowledge of science, humanities and nursing

• Integrate developmental theories into a framework for providing nursing care of systems as 
  found in families, communities and in other complex nursing situations

• Utilize strategies of health promotion, prevention, illness care and restoration to enhance care of clients who are at any point on the wellness/illness continuum

• Synthesize all components of the nursing process into the delivery of health care in a variety of systems

• Integrate nursing care skills as an art complimentary to the science of nursing in a variety of settings

• Implement research findings to enhance the delivery of client and system caring

• Assimilate leadership and management skills into the practice of the nursing role

• Base the development of professional roles on knowledge of issues and trends including legal/ethical, historical, political and social concepts

 
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