BSN: Program Goals

Opportunities are provided to enable the learner to develop professionally and to meet the Nursing program goals, which are for students to:

• Communicate clearly and succinctly in speech and in writing.
• Promote effective communication between clients from various socio-cultural and linguistic backgrounds and representatives of the health care and social service systems.
• Demonstrate critical thinking, clinical decision-making and psychomotor skills necessary for safe and competent practice.
• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity as shown by thought processes and behavior.
• Provide nursing care that preserves and enhances client's dignity and perceived goodness of fit with the immediate and expected environments.
• Integrate methods of research and scholarship in making and prioritizing diagnoses, and in planning, implementing and evaluating care of individuals, groups and communities.
• Assess health and incorporate principles and methods of health promotion and health education in nursing care of individuals, groups and communities.
• Accept accountability for own expertise and for using that expertise to influence systems of care and health care policy.
• Demonstrate comfort with requirements for adaptation to changes in care settings.
• Demonstrate awareness of limitations in knowledge and actively seek learning opportunities to continue competent practice.

To support and document progress toward accomplishing these goals, each graduating student is required to submit a portfolio of work completed during the student's residence at UW Tacoma.

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