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1. Provide a solid foundation of specific competencies that will enable nursing students to acquire the skills required in the nursing profession.
2. Provide nursing students with education and knowledge to become competent members of the nursing community of wellness, enabling them to appreciate and successfully cope with the human relations problems encountered in the healthcare workplace.
3. Provide nursing programs that include a variety of skills that will bring nursing students to a fuller realization of the world in which they live and work, so that the nursing students will be capable of achieving a satisfactory and rewarding nursing career and lifestyle.
4. Serve as a leader of higher education in nursing in each of our communities by incorporating suggestions and recommendations from knowledgeable representatives of the nursing programs offered.

1. Provide a solid foundation of specific competencies that will enable nursing students to acquire the skills required in the nursing profession.
2. Provide nursing students with education and knowledge to become competent members of the nursing community of wellness, enabling them to appreciate and successfully cope with the human relations problems encountered in the healthcare workplace.
3. Provide nursing programs that include a variety of skills that will bring nursing students to a fuller realization of the world in which they live and work, so that the nursing students will be capable of achieving a satisfactory and rewarding nursing career and lifestyle.
4. Serve as a leader of higher education in nursing in each of our communities by incorporating suggestions and recommendations from knowledgeable representatives of the nursing programs offered.

1. Progress the body of the knowledge of nursing by dissemination of information through informational technology, interdisciplinary collaboration and authentic transformational leadership models.
2. Disseminates original scholarly contributions to inform evidence-based practice that is diverse and includes social, cultural, spiritual, and environmental application to solving complex problems through theoretical concepts and innovative solutions.
3. Synthesize the life-span of the community of wellness into a personal professional commitment to creating collaborative alliances for safe, diverse, and compassionate delivery of health promoting behaviors.
4. Integrate nursing theory into advance nursing practice including the best tenets and concepts of influential theorist of nursing encouraging a community of wellness that is based on considerations in furthering healthy change behaviors for the individuals, families, communities, and populations based on Healthy People 2020.
5. Advance the care of populations through advocacy by creation of a healthy community using disease prevention strategies, networking, collaborative outreach, analysis of consumer healthcare needs and guiding regulatory healthcare policy.
6. Integrate Information Technology Management to create a collaborative interdisciplinary team that accesses, processes, and delivers improved professional networks, patient relationships and health outcomes for the community of wellness.
7. Influence a healthier population through critical analysis and synthesis of evidence-based content by designing educational methods for quality improvement and prevention of disease to enhance a community of wellness.
8. Contribute to the ethical practice of nursing by advocating accountability in life-long learning, contributing to the body of the knowledge of the profession, and assimilating ethical practices into promotion of ethical healthcare practices for the community of wellness.
9. Collaborate with the community of wellness to create alliances that will improve political awareness, advocacy for improved health outcomes, and legal/regulatory activism from the community of nursing.
10. Collaborate with the community of wellness to manage, organize and delegate diverse strategies for planning, implementing, and evaluating improved healthcare outcomes for the community of wellness.
11. Advance improved healthcare outcomes for national and global populations, individuals, groups, families, and communities by advocating for application of diverse economic resources to the community of wellness.
12. Promote personal and professional accountability for the advancement of the profession of nursing ensuring accountability for life-long learning and professional growth that will encourage improved health outcomes for the community of wellness.

1. Assimilate knowledge from the liberal arts, nursing science, and the art and ethics of caring into the framework for providing holistic care to diverse patient/clients across the lifespan, including end-of-life.
2. Demonstrate critical thinking as the basis of practice through utilization of evidence-based practices in providing safe physical, social, cultural, spiritual, and environmental diversity of patient care as well as apply strong critical thinking/problem solving competencies in crisis resolution.
3. Apply the knowledge and skills of nursing leadership to provide compassionate, safe, and high quality care to patients/clients from diverse backgrounds across the lifespan.
4. Provide patient/client care from a holistic framework that recognizes the context of patient/client values in promoting wellness and disease prevention as well as planning, implementing, and evaluating patient/client care outcomes.
5. Develop effective communication and information management strategies that enhance an atmosphere of collaboration between patient/clients and members of the healthcare team.
6. Integrate the teaching-learning process throughout all aspects of nursing practice to address the dynamic needs of both the patient/client and the practitioner to attain a sense of holistic well-being.
7. Internalize professional values that reflect responsibility and accountability for professional behavior and a commitment to life-long learning.
8. Explore, and define their individual role as a positive change agent in the work force and community.
9. Adhere to ethical, legal, and regulatory mandates and professional standards for nursing practice.
10. Apply management, delegation, and supervision strategies in planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care.
11. Explore political, economic, organizational, educational, and advocacy resources and strategies to improve health care delivery to individuals, groups, families, communities, national and global populations.
12. Accept personal accountability for lifelong learning, professional growth, and commitment to the advancement of the profession.

1. Assimilate knowledge from the liberal arts, nursing science, and the art and ethics of caring into the framework for providing holistic care to diverse patient/clients across the lifespan, including end-of-life.
2. Demonstrate critical thinking as the basis of practice through utilization of evidence-based practices in providing safe physical, social, cultural, spiritual, and environmental diversity of patient care as well as apply strong critical thinking/problem solving competencies in crisis resolution.
3. Apply the knowledge and skills of nursing leadership to provide compassionate, safe, and high quality care to patients/clients from diverse backgrounds across the lifespan.
4. Provide patient/client care from a holistic framework that recognizes the context of patient/client values in promoting wellness and disease prevention as well as planning, implementing, and evaluating patient/client care outcomes.
5. Develop effective communication and information management strategies that enhance an atmosphere of collaboration between patient/clients and members of the healthcare team.
6. Integrate the teaching-learning process throughout all aspects of nursing practice to address the dynamic needs of both the patient/client and the practitioner to attain a sense of holistic well-being.
7. Internalize professional values that reflect responsibility and accountability for professional behavior and a commitment to life-long learning.
8. Explore, and define their individual role as a positive change agent in the work force and community.
9. Adhere to ethical, legal, and regulatory mandates and professional standards for nursing practice.
10. Apply management, delegation, and supervision strategies in planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care.
11. Explore political, economic, organizational, educational, and advocacy resources and strategies to improve health care delivery to individuals, groups, families, communities, national and global populations.
12. Accept personal accountability for lifelong learning, professional growth, and commitment to the advancement of the profession.

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