Learning Outcomes
1. Create an individual professional nursing development plan considering practice standards, self-reflection, nursing knowledge, and higher education
2. Apply professional communication principles to collaborative partnerships that assist individuals, families, and groups achieve optimal potential and well-being
3. Explore current evidence-based practice for the integration of accountability, autonomy, and decision-making in the delivery of safe, ethical, effective nursing practice and quality improvement initiatives.
4. Identify current trends and issues regarding political, economic, historical, social, and technological factors that influence the nursing profession and healthcare delivery system
5. Discuss application or integration of concepts from selected nursing theories in professional nursing practice.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of caring science while using professional standards that focus on individuals and families with an awareness of attitudes, values, socioeconomics, and cultural differences
7. Utilize scholarly inquiry and analysis to support critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and judgment in the professional nursing role