Objectives

Graduates of the RN-BS Degree Program will acquire the following learning objectives:

  • Caring/therapeutic alliance: Integrate caring behaviors and therapeutic alliances with persons into professional nursing care.
  • Communication: Integrate effective communication processes into professional nursing.
  • Knowledge: Synthesize knowledge as the foundation for providing nursing care that promotes health, shapes the environment, and guides persons and their families through the health care experience.
  • Collaboration: Collaborate with others to promote health for a diverse society.
  • Outcome Evaluation: Evaluate the outcomes of nursing interventions.
  • Leadership/advocacy: Participate in leadership activities to effect needed change and improvement of health care systems and advocating to promote the health of the population.
  • Therapeutic interventions: Provide competent and evidence-based therapeutic nursing interventions.
  • Professional Development: Demonstrate behaviors that incorporate the dimensions of a professional essential to fulfill nursing’s social contract.

 


Online programs and courses are offered by the Departments and Colleges of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, in collaboration with the Division of Professional and Continuing Education and UMass Online.

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