College of Nursing

Undergraduate Learning Outcomes


Associate Degree in Nursing

Educational Objectives

  1. To guide students in any setting to look at each situation uniquely and critically analyze the best options for improving the lives of others as a nurse.
  2. To emphasize to students the importance of integrity, honesty, and ethical-legal behavior expected of a professional nurse.
  3. To role-model to students behavior that is of a high caliber in nursing and strongly urge them to continue their education thinking of themselves as life long learners and eventually master nurses.
  4. To utilize multiple learning strategies to target the many varying learner types in order to accommodate all students, specifically those that may be at risk for failure.
  5. To maintain an open dialogue in the classroom and clinical practicum to give students voice and an opportunity to learn through sharing.
  6. To evaluate student progression fairly and honestly with ample feedback in a timely fashion so that student behavior change might occur.
  7. To teach students how to engage the community through service learning opportunities completed in every semester that give something as well as receive something from the participants.
  8. To impart some knowledge of the research process so that graduates from our program will feel comfortable with upon embarking on their B.S.N. completion coursework outside UT.
  9. To prepare students for practice as a professional with course content and assignments, which are high quality and provide excellence in instruction with ample time for completion of related-tasks.
  10. To continue to mobilize resources for the community through grant writing, with the intention of including students in this process in a spirit of service learning giving the community voice and improving the relationship of the university with our partners.
  11. To strive to improve the nursing laboratory to give students the most realistic pretend nursing scenarios with high quality equipment and supplies to learn with.
  12. To acquire the optimal clinical practicum sites so that student learning is constantly enhanced, utilizing excellence in clinical faculty, staff nurses, and facilities that welcome student learning on consistent basis.
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Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Program Objectives

  1. Design holistic nursing care with individuals, families, groups and communities based on Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing.
  2. Provide competent, culturally sensitive nursing care in a diversity of settings.
  3. Use skills of critical thinking in the application of theory and research findings from nursing, other sciences, and the humanities as a basis for clinical judgments and scholarly endeavors.
  4. Develop person-centered, therapeutic relationships with a commitment to individuals as unique self-determining agents.
  5. Demonstrate effective communication skills (verbal, non-verbal, written, and computer-based)
  6. Demonstrate consistent professional behavior.
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