Practical Nursing

Program outcomes

1. Nursing judgment: Incorporate evidence-supported practice and nursing judgment while applying the nursing process to provide safe, quality care to diverse populations.
2. Patient-centered care: Communicate with individual patients to establish and maintain effective, caring relationships.
3. Teamwork and collaboration: Collaborate effectively with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to promote safety and achieve quality patient-centered care.
4. Safety: Provide safe, individualized care founded on basic physical, developmental, spiritual, cultural, functional and psychosocial needs of the patient.
5. Quality improvement: Participate in continuous quality improvement.
6. Professionalism: Demonstrate professional behavior in regard to legal and ethical nursing practice standards within the LPN scope of practice.
7. Technology: Utilize informatics and technology in the healthcare setting.
8. Managing care: Work within an established plan of care for an individual patient to organize or assign aspects of care under the direction of a registered nurse or healthcare provider.