Undergraduate Program and Level Objectives

Level I Objectives:

Level II Objectives:

Level III Objectives

Level IV Objectives

Baccalaureate Program Objectives

1. Recognize the influence of multiple factors affecting the health process and ever-expanding parameters of wellness in individuals.

1. Utilize the Department of Nursing philosophy and conceptual model in the nursing process to facilitate maximum functional status of clients and their families during periods of acute and chronic illness.

1. Utilize the Department of Nursing philosophy and conceptual model to facilitate maximum functional status of clients, families and groups across the lifespan.

1. Utilize the CSUB System Model of nursing, and the community health sciences in the delivery of community health nursing services.

1. Value the inherent dignity and worth of the person as a unique humanistic being.

2. Explain the roles of the professional nurse (clinician, researcher, educator, leader) within the patterns of healthcare.

2. Integrate theory and knowledge from the clinical sciences, physical sciences, behavioral sciences, and the humanities to support the theoretical bases for the nursing process.

2. Integrate theory and knowledge from the physical and behavioral sciences and the humanities to support the theoretical base for the nursing process.

2. Perform the nursing roles (clinician, educator, researcher, leader) at the beginning level of independent nursing practice with the inclusion of the ethical and legal responsibilities.

2. Foster an environment in which the clients, across the lifespan, maximize their strengths, assets, and potentials in their quest for optimal wellness as indicated by maximal functional status.

3. Demonstrate through effective use of the communication process, constructive involvement with individual clients and their families and co-workers.

3. Analyze the more common health problems found during adulthood and senescence.

3. Analyze commonly occurring health problems found during the period of family expansion through adolescence within the context of system stability and functional health patterns.

3. Utilize nursing research in practice.

3. Use the nursing process, which emphasizes critical thinking, independent judgment, and continual evaluation, as a means to determine nursing activities.

4. Describe contemporary philosophies, theories, and conceptual models of nursing for professional nursing practice.

4. Plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care with the cooperation and collaboration of the client, the family, and members of the interdisciplinary health team.

4. Analyze nursing implications of common psychopathological health problems of children, adolescents, adults and the elderly.

4. Implement a nursing leadership/management project.

4. Function within beginning nursing roles (clinician, educator, leader, researcher

5. Apply the Department of Nursing philosophy and conceptual model using the nursing process with emphasis on assessment of functional health patterns of the adult client.

5. Utilize principles of learning and instruction while teaching health maintenance, prevention of illness, and promotion of optimal health.

5. Utilize the nursing process with emphasis on planning, implementation and evaluation to provide nursing care for clients with both common and complex problems.

5. Identify selected theories, principles, and concepts of leadership.

5. Utilize communication skills to achieve optimal outcomes with clients of nursing.

6. Facilitate, at the beginning level, maximum functional status in clients of nursing.

6. Demonstrate professional conduct which indicates comprehension of ethical and legal principles governing nursing practice.

6. Work cooperatively and collaboratively with the client, family, groups and members of the interdisciplinary health team when providing healthcare in both the hospital and community settings.

6. Analyze organizational structures and functions in various healthcare systems.

6. Use theory and knowledge from the discipline of nursing, the physical and behavioral sciences, and the humanities in providing and evaluating nursing care.

7. Utilize the principles of teaching and learning in the provision of nursing care.

7. Utilize therapeutic communication skills in interactions with clients and their families.

7. Apply principles of learning and instruction while teaching health maintenance, prevention of illness, and promotion of optimal health.

7. Design a nursing intervention for an aggregate/group to meet the members’ healthcare needs and maximize their functional status.

7. Accept individual responsibility and accountability for nursing interventions and their outcomes.

8. Verbalize a beginning understanding of the dynamics involved in personal and professional growth.

8. Utilize current research from nursing and related fields in clinical practice.

8. Demonstrate professional conduct which indicates comprehension of ethical and legal principles governing nursing practice.

8. Sustain collaborative relationships established with colleagues and the interdisciplinary health team as a means to advance nursing care and independent decisions.

8. Evaluate research for the applicability of its findings to nursing.

9. Identify legal, ethical, and political factors influencing professional nursing.

9. Demonstrate skill in the use of therapeutic communication in interactions with clients, families and groups.

9. Analyze pertinent healthcare issues with reference to the political, ethical, and economic aspect of the issue.

9. Modify professional roles and functions to meet the healthcare needs of a changing multicultural society.

10. Recognize the influence of research on the healthcare of adult clients.

10. Apply current research from nursing and related fields to clinical practice in various settings.

10. Collaborate with colleagues and others on the interdisciplinary health team to promote the health and well-being of the clients of nursing.

11. Describe leadership characteristics that promote effective nursing care.

11. Utilize leadership and management skills through involvement with others in meeting health needs and nursing goals.

12. Apply principles from the basic physical and behavioral sciences and the humanities in the safe performance of nursing skills that require cognitive, psychomotor, and effective capabilities.

12. Demonstrate commitment to continued learning by engaging in self-directed education.

13. Demonstrate professional conduct which indicates comprehension of ethical and legal principles governing nursing practice. 

13. Demonstrate the ability to successfully pass the RN licensure examination (NCLEX).

14. Demonstrate collaboration with an interdisciplinary team in a healthcare system.