Mission RN to BSN Program
College Vision, Mission & Values
Vision
The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions is to be nationally recognized for the development of professionals who contribute to an inclusive, healthy society.
Mission
Through The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions, we foster and sustain a culture of excellence through collaborative clinical/professional practice, learner-centered education, leadership, research, and service.
Values
To achieve our mission we adhere to the core values of integrity, respect, compassion, inclusiveness, social responsibility, excellence, and innovation adopted by the Board of Trustees, December 2, 2010.
RN-to-BSN Mission:
The mission of the RN-to-BSN program is to create a culture of excellence that promotes the personal and professional growth of students to become nursing leaders through systems thinking, research, and service.
The RN-to-BSN program recognizes the unique characteristics and needs of our diverse, primarily rural setting, preparing graduates to provide nursing care to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations in a variety of settings.
Program graduates demonstrate competence in clinical judgment, collaborate as members and leaders of interprofessional healthcare teams, and utilize evidence-based interventions to manage illness; promote, maintain, and restore health across the lifespan.
RN-to-BSN Program Goals:
- Provide graduates with a strong foundation in nursing leadership, evidence-based practice, systems thinking, and population health to meet the demands of health care employers.
- Build upon a foundation of the arts, sciences, and humanities and professional nursing education that provide a base for our graduates' eligibility for graduate degree education to prepare for advanced nursing practice roles.
- Implement innovative and accessible models of nursing education to meet the personal and professional needs of an increasingly diverse student body.
- Recruit and retain qualified and diverse students committed to academic excellence, professional development, and lifelong learning.
- Recruit and retain qualified faculty who contribute to the university, the profession, and service and scholarly endeavors.
Our RN-to-BSN is a high-quality program
CMU RN-to-BSN program builds an intellectual framework that reflects two major bodies of knowledge and scholarship: The BSN Essentials and the QSEN Competencies. The next table illustrates the alignment of the program's SLOs with selected BSN Essentials and QSEN Competencies.
Alignment of Program SLOs/Objectives with BSN Essentials and QSEN Competencies
Proposed Program SLO
| BSN Essential
| QSEN Competency
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Integrate knowledge from the liberal arts, sciences, and nursing to provide culturally competent nursing care for diverse populations.
| Essential I: Liberal Education for Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice
| Patient-Centered Care:
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Demonstrate nursing leadership principles to plan and implement patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context of a dynamic complex health care system and inter-professional care.
| Essential II: Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality care and patient Safety
| Teamwork and Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
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Apply concepts of global health to plan appropriate culturally-safe care and health promotion for vulnerable populations.
| Essential VII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health
| Patient-Centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs.
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Utilize best current evidence and systems thinking to improve nursing and health care practices for groups or populations
| Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice
| Evidence-Based Practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
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Incorporate concepts of inter-professional collaboration and communication, health policy, finance, and regulatory environments as leaders in nursing practice.
| Essential V: Healthcare Policy, Finance, and Regulatory Environments
| Teamwork and Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. |