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Characteristics of Graduates

  • Exemplify a personal philosophy of nursing that is consistent with professional standards
  • Apply the nursing process as a method of providing professional nursing care to prevent illness; promote, maintain, restore client health; or support clients toward a peaceful death
  • Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for professional behavior
  • Demonstrate leadership in addressing professional nursing and health issues
  • Demonstrate caring, commitment, and respect for the dignity of clients through therapeutic communication
  • Promote optimal health through a collaborative nurse-client relationship
  • Employ critical thinking skills to make independent and collaborative decisions
  • Provide evidence-based professional nursing care
  • Provide professional nursing care to diverse populations in a variety of settings
  • Collaborate in planning, delivering, and evaluating nursing services in a changing health care system


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