Nursing

Program Description

Our program is designed to provide the professional registered nurse (RN) an opportunity for personal, professional, and leadership development. The learner will build on current knowledge and skills to help navigate an increasingly complex healthcare system. Topics to be explored include ethics, health policy, legal issues, population health, evidence-based practice, quality and safety, interprofessional partnerships, systems-based practice, informatics and technology, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. This program is delivered in a convenient and flexible online model, perfect for a working professional.

Program Goals

Through the delivery of an integrative curriculum, this program’s purpose is to assist the student-learner to: 

1. Critically think, clinically reason, and apply scientific problem-solving methods to demonstrate clinical judgment in simple and complex health care situations. 
2. Intervene therapeutically by combining knowledge, skills, and professional dispositions in a holistic, socially just, person-centered, ethical, and compassionate manner. 
3. Provide safe, high-quality, cost-effective care; and translate and apply evidence at the point of care and throughout care systems. 
4. Communicate effectively using verbal, non-verbal, written, and informatics and technology skills to foster healthy interprofessional partnerships throughout care systems. 
5. Value diversity as a member of society, the profession, and care systems; and advocate and lobby for inclusive and equitable access to healthcare.  
6. Comport themself as professionals and leaders within an individual practice setting, system, society, and the nursing profession. 

Learning Outcomes

The goals mentioned above relate to the identified program and student learning outcomes, based on the Essentials document (AACN, 2021) and Nurse of the Future Competencies (Sroczynski, 2016) measured through classroom assessment methods and clinical performance. As a result of the completion of the nursing program, the New England College nursing graduate can:

1. Synthesize knowledge from nursing, the arts, humanities, and the natural, physical, and social sciences into professional nursing practice across the lifespan and care continuum. (AACN Essentials - Domain 1: Knowledge of Nursing Practice; NOF: Professionalism)  
2. Provide holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate nursing care across the lifespan and care continuum. (AACN Essentials - Domain 2: Person-Centered Care; NOF: Patient-Centered Care & Communication)  
3. Serve in partnerships to advocate for improving the health status of a defined population through health promotion, illness prevention, and emergency preparedness measures. (AACN Essentials - Domain 3: Population Health; NOF: Patient-Centered Care)  
4. Use clinical expertise and the individual’s preferences, experience, and values to identify, evaluate, and apply the best current evidence to clinical decision-making. (AACN Essentials - Domain 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline; NOF: Evidence-Based Practice)  
5. Apply quality improvement principles and contribute to a culture of patient, provider, and work environment safety. (AACN Essentials - Domain 5: Quality and Safety; NOF: Quality Improvement & Safety)  
6. Engage in team-based person-centered care partnerships across the care continuum to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes. (AACN Essentials - Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships; NOF: Teamwork & Collaboration)  
7. Effectively and proactively coordinates unit-based human and fiscal resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care across the lifespan and care continuum. (AACN Essentials - Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice; NOF: Systems-Based Practice)  
8. Use information and technology to analyze and synthesize information to manage and improve the provision of safe, high-quality, and efficient care across the lifespan and care continuum. (AACN Essentials - Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies; NOF: Informatics & Technology, Communication)  
9. Demonstrate accountability for providing standard-based nursing care across the lifespan and care continuum, consistent with ethical, moral, altruistic, legal, regulatory, and humanistic ideologies. (AACN Essentials - Domain 9: Professionalism; NOF: Professionalism)  
10. Model personal health behaviors, demonstrate professional curiosity, and advocate for individuals across the lifespan and care continuum. (AACN Essentials - Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development; NOF: Leadership)