Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Shoreline Nursing Program, graduates will be able to:

• Develop a patient-centered plan of care incorporating unique multifaceted preferences (cultural, spiritual, ethnic, developmental, psychosocial) while recognizing the patient as the source of control and full partner.
• Demonstrate ability to coordinate and integrate care, creating continuity across multiple care environments using effective communication and shared decision-making.
• Demonstrate effective use of strategies to reduce the risk of harm to patients and providers.
• Evaluate system effectiveness and individual performance
• Practice effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, using therapeutic communication, mutual respect and shared decision making to achieve quality patient outcomes.
• Practice effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, using therapeutic communication, mutual respect and shared decision making to achieve quality patient outcomes.
• Integrate best current evidence with clinical reasoning, patient/family preferences and values using the nursing process to deliver optimal nursing care.
• Evaluate and use information and technology to communicate, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
• Apply technology to find, analyze, and apply evidence-based information and current resources.
• Use APA style in academic paper writing and avoid plagiarism.
• Demonstrate honesty, self-awareness, self-regulation, and a sense of ethical responsibility for self and others while engaging in respectful communication and collaboration to enhance patient satisfaction and health outcomes, and to preserve practice integrity and safety.
• Demonstrate professional behaviors and accountability for standard-based nursing care that is consistent with moral, legal, ethical, regulatory, and humanistic principles.