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Department of Nursing

Educations Goals/Outcomes:

The goals of the nursing program are to prepare nursing graduates who will be internationally competitive, globally informed, effective communicators, embracers of change in positive ways, socially responsible, providers of care, and protectors of the environment. The graduates will use research to improve nursing and health care and to provide expert nursing care to patients. They will share their expertise with providers and health systems.

The six educational learning outcomes for the ASU BSN students include the ability to:

  1. Synthesize knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired in the humanities and natural and behavioral sciences in the practice of nursing.
  2. Apply nursing values that exemplify the caring, professional nurse.
  3. Demonstrate competency in critical thinking, communication, assessment and technical skills.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge in the areas of health promotion, risk reduction and disease prevention, illness and disease management, information and health care technologies, ethics, human diversity, global health care, health care systems and policy.
  5. Assume the professional nursing roles of provider of care, designer/manager/ coordinator of care and member of the profession.
  6. Use evidence-based practice and research to improve nursing and healthcare.