- A critical thinker who demonstrates intellectual engagement and uses evidence as a basis for clinical reasoning and decision making.
- Integrates theories and concepts from nursing and liberal education to apply nursing processes and evaluate outcomes of care.
- Utilizes research from nursing and multiple disciplines to select the best practice when caring for individuals, families and communities.
- Uses a systematic approach for clinical reasoning and decision making.
- A culturally sensitive individual who provides holistic individual, family, community, and population-centered nursing care.
- Applies knowledge of social and cultural factors that affect nursing and health care across multiple contexts.
- Advocates for social justice, including commitment to the health of vulnerable populations and the elimination of health disparities.
- A knowledgeable care coordinator who facilitates access to resources across the continuum of health care environments in order to meet the evolving health care needs of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
- Assesses protective and predictive factors, including genetics, which influence the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
- Appropriately assesses, develops and evaluates intervention strategies for health, healthcare and emergency preparedness needs of a defined population.
- An individual who understands and considers the impact of health care policy, finance, and regulatory environments on care delivery.
- Examines professional nursing’s involvement and impact on local, state, national and international health care policies.
- Examines current professional organizations, political trends, and public opinion that shape health care delivery.
- Investigates policy changes that promote health for individuals, families and communities.
- An individual who embodies the professional identity of the nurse and who translates the inherent values of the nursing profession into the ethical and legal practice of nursing.
- Demonstrates the professional standards of moral, ethical and legal conduct.
- Advocates for individuals, families, and communities by acting to prevent unsafe, illegal, or unethical care practices.
- Articulates the value of pursuing practice excellence, lifelong learning, and professional engagement to foster growth and development in all areas of the discipline of nursing.
- An effective communicator who collaborates with inter-professional team members, patients, and their support systems for improved health outcomes.
- Communicates effectively in a variety of written and spoken formats.
- Demonstrates the use of appropriate therapeutic interpersonal communication techniques.
- Collaborates with other professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion, disease, and injury prevention interventions.
- A competent care provider who is prepared to practice to the full capacity of the professional nurse role in diverse health care environments.
- Demonstrates mastery of basic nursing assessment techniques, intervention prioritization, skills performance, and care evaluation.
- Provides appropriate patient teaching that reflects developmental stage, age, culture, spirituality, patient preferences, and health literacy considerations to foster patient engagement in their care.
- Facilitates patient-family-centered transitions of care throughout wellness, illness, recovery, rehabilitation, or death.
- An accountable leader and manager who applies principles of systems and organizational processes and who balances resources to promote quality care and patient safety.
- Applies leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high quality nursing care, healthcare team coordination, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings.
- Articulates the value of pursuing practice excellence, lifelong learning, and professional engagement to foster growth and development in all areas of the discipline of nursing.
- Demonstrates knowledge of health care financial and business practices.
- An individual who embraces and employs innovations in information management and technology in the delivery of quality patient care.
- Demonstrate skills in using patient care technologies, information systems and communication devices that support safe nursing practice.
- Promotes achievement of safe and quality outcomes of care for diverse populations though use of quality improvement data collection and analysis
