Strategic Plan
Strategic Plan
Goal 1: Elevated Auburn Experience
Inspire and prepare nursing students for life and careers
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Goal 2: Transformative Research
Through independent and collaborative research, address health and healthcare issues in Alabama and beyond
Goal 3: Impactful Outreach and Service
Lead efforts to increase engagement with both public and private stakeholders
Goal 4: Exceptional and Engaged Faculty and Staff
Invest in outstanding people to advance the College of Nursing’s mission through recruitment, retention, development, support, recognition, and reward
Goal 5: Intentional Enrollment
Achieve a robust and diverse enrollment of students
Goal 6: Operational Excellence
Implement operational efficiency and effectiveness measures that continuously support a culture of high performance in all aspects of the College of Nursing
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.