The baccalaureate program prepares the graduate to:

• Integrate evidence-based knowledge from nursing, the arts and humanities, and bio-psycho-social sciences to shape the practice of professional nursing.
   
• Utilize the nursing process to demonstrate critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills for the delivery of safe, client-centered care across the lifespan for individuals, families, groups, and communities.
   
• Demonstrate competence in the nursing roles of provider of care, designer/manager/coordinator of care, and member of a profession to continuously improve the quality and safety of an ever-changing and complex healthcare environment.
   
• Integrate principles of leadership, management, health care policy, and client safety into the provision and oversight of nursing practice across health care settings.
   
• Practice inter- and intra-professional communication and collaboration through the use of oral, written, and technological communication strategies to facilitate safe, quality client-centered care. 
   
• Integrate knowledge and skills related to client care technologies and global health information systems to facilitate clinical decision making and the delivery of safe effective nursing care.
   
• Provide holistic nursing care to promote, restore, and maintain the maximum human potential of individuals, families, groups, and communities across the lifespan.
   
• Adhere to ethical, legal, regulatory mandates and professional standards for the delivery of safe, client-centered care through individual performance and inter-professional collaboration in an ever-changing healthcare environment.
   
• Assume responsibility for own decisions and actions in the practice of professional nursing.
   
• Demonstrate professional behaviors that integrate altruism, autonomy, integrity, social justice and respect for diversity and human dignity with recipients of nursing care and members of healthcare system.
   
• Accept accountability for continual lifelong learning, personal and professional growth and commitment to the advancement of the nursing profession.

Upon completion of the program, the graduate will be able to: ​

 ​1. Synthesize evidence-based knowledge, theories and principles from nursing, the arts and humanities, bio-psycho-social and applied sciences which support advanced nursing practice and role development.

2. Assume leadership role in coordinating, managing, and improving health services for culturally diverse populations by using knowledge of political, economic, organizational, and regulatory systems.

3. Direct organizational and systems leadership initiatives for the improvement of health outcomes and safety for diverse individuals, families, groups, populations, and communities across the continuum of care.

4. Collaborate with interprofessional healthcare providers and consumers in designing, implementing, and evaluating health services for the attainment of shared health care goals that focus on clinical prevention and population health.

5. Integrate information technology for evidence-based care management, education, collaboration, and decision-making to improve health outcomes.

6. Demonstrate beginning competence in applying research principles to clinical practice that will impact advanced nursing practice and education as well as health programs and services.

7. Assume accountability for ethical values, principles, and personal beliefs that acknowledge human diversity and influence professional practice decisions and nursing interventions.

8. Adhere to ethical, legal, and regulatory mandates and professional standards for advanced nursing practice.

9. Engage in professional behaviors that reflect a commitment to lifelong learning and excellence in advanced nursing practice. ​