Strategic Plan
Strategic Plan
Goal 1: Deliver rigorous and relevant curriculum and clinical experiences that prepare undergraduate and graduate students for successful practice.
1. Strategic hiring and retention of nationally known faculty through competitive compensation, rewards and recognition.
2. Consistently evaluate curricula to ensure we are preparing nurse leaders who will serve individuals and communities both locally and globally.
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Goal 2: Provide meaningful and impactful opportunities that support professional growth, leadership development, and community involvement.
1. Advance healthcare experiences for students.
2. Acknowledge and celebrate achievements, contributions and other successes.
3. Expand advertisement, recruitment, funding, and recognition for students.
4. Support the growth of academic programs.
5. Expand study abroad experiences.
6. Establish endowed fund to support student research, attendance at conferences and participation in national organizations.
Goal 3: Promote a supportive learning environment that encourages academic achievement and personal well-being.
1. Build a facility dedicated to interdisciplinary experiential learning, clinical services and research.
2. Develop strategies targeted for recruitment of students in nursing.
3. Enhance resources to promote student success.
4. Increase funding and scholarships for students.
Goal 4: Enhance educational offerings through expanded programs and strengthened partnerships.
1. Increase physical space.
2. Expand, redesign or repurpose physical space to facilitate future initiatives.
3. Update technology in building(s).
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Curricular Outcomes
Communication and Collaboration Skills
Collaborate and communicate effectively with health care team members, patients, and patients’ support networks to implement patient-centered care, including appropriate teaching for developmental stage, age, culture, and health literacy to ensure high-quality outcomes. Use information technologies to assist in effective communication, facilitate patient care, and integrate evidence from all relevant resources to promote high-quality patient outcomes within microsystems and greater healthcare systems.
Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment in Clinical Practice
Demonstrate clinical judgment grounded in theories and concepts from liberal and nursing education in the delivery of efficient, safe, compassionate, and evidence-based care. Exhibit ethics, caring, and accountability for patient outcomes in all aspects of professional nursing practice.
Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice Skills
Implement evidence-based interventions to promote health, prevent disease, and manage acute and chronic care of patients across the lifespan. Demonstrate consistent self-reflection techniques to identify learning needs, particularly in areas where knowledge is complex and rapidly evolving.
Clinical Prevention and Population Health Skills
Implement patient-centered care, emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention, for individuals, families, and populations, reflecting an understanding of human growth and development, psychobiological factors, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and management across the health–illness continuum.
Use clinical judgment with attention to effectiveness, efficacy, and equality in providing nursing care during disasters, mass casualties, and other emergencies.
Diversity Skills
Demonstrate a wide range of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, including cultural awareness, humility, sensitivity and competency. Incorporate holistic assessments, understanding of values, and spiritual beliefs in delivering quality patient and family-centered, evidence-based care of diverse and vulnerable populations.
Leadership Skills
Demonstrate ethical and critical decision-making skills, mutually respectful communication, collaboration, delegation, and conflict resolution techniques.
Facilitate patient-centered transitions of care by leveraging leadership skills informed by current evidence, ongoing assessment of outcome measures, quality improvement initiatives, and safety protocols.
Coordinate and manage care for diverse individuals, families, groups, and populations to maximize health, independence, and quality of life at the microsystem level.
Demonstrate an understanding of the ambiguity and unpredictability of complex factors that affect healthcare, including healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments, as well as local, national, and global trends related to the equitable care of vulnerable populations.