Goals & Outcomes

RN-BSN Program Goals

Building upon a liberal arts foundation, the RN-BSN program expands the student’s nursing knowledge, skills, and professional role. The program prepares the nursing graduate, based on the American Association Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials (2021), to provide holistic, evidence-based nursing care, in health and illness, with diverse populations in the ever-changing and complex healthcare environment. The graduate will be able to function as an integral member of an interprofessional team, promoting patient safety, cultural sensitivity, and quality outcomes. The BSN graduate will demonstrate clinical reasoning, care management and evaluation skills, use of informatics technology, and genetics/genomics knowledge through professional nursing practice with patients across the lifespan in various healthcare settings. These nurses are committed to ongoing professional education and scholarly work to remain current in the generalist nursing role.

RN-BSN Program Outcomes

Upon completion of the RN-BSN Program, the student will:

1. Synthesize knowledge and spark inquiry from nursing and other disciplines in attainment and application of nursing knowledge, competencies, and values for professional practice.
2. Provide competent, respectful, empathetic, and compassionate person-centered care in varied care settings with an emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion principles.
3. Apply principles of population health, spanning the continuum from public health prevention to disease management, for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
4. Integrate nursing knowledge from research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement to improve health and transform person-centered care.
5. Utilize quality and safety principles to create optimal healthcare environments for persons receiving care, their support system, and healthcare providers.
6. Utilize interprofessional collaboration and communication to plan, coordinate, provide, and evaluate care.
7. Employ knowledge of healthcare systems, policy, and financing to diverse care settings.
8. Apply skills related to information, communication technologies, and informatic processes to manage and improve the delivery of high-quality health care.
9. Formulate a sustainable professional identity that reflects nursing’s characteristics, standards, and values.
10. Demonstrate skills that foster health, resilience, and well-being in personal, professional, and leadership development.

Nursing Programs Mission Statement & Goals

Chatham University’s Nursing Programs prepare bachelor’s through doctoral level graduates to advance the quality, safety, and sustainability of equitable and inclusive healthcare across diverse populations while being engaged and respectful citizens.

Chatham University’s Nursing Programs prepares its nursing students, bachelors through doctoral level, on campus, and around the world, to advance the quality and safety of healthcare on an individual and population basis; access, utilize, and disseminate information through healthcare technology; embrace human diversity through ethically sound global healthcare; and purposefully impact healthcare systems and policy through leadership, collaboration, and scholarship. Chatham nursing graduates are prepared to function professionally in their work, take on leadership positions at work and in their communities, and acknowledge the need for life-long learning in their profession. Chatham nursing faculty support this learning by providing a high-quality, contemporary curriculum within an environment of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice while maintaining their own commitment to scholarship and life-long learning.