Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the University of Pikeville baccalaureate degree for registered nurses, the graduate will:

1. Synthesize knowledge, theories, and concepts of various disciplines within liberal education into nursing practice.

2. Employ knowledge, skills, and attitudes for leadership, quality improvement and safety in healthcare delivery to diverse populations within complex systems.

3. Integrate evidence, clinical judgment, and interprofessional perspectives in communicating, implementing, and evaluating patient-centered care.

4. Apply knowledge and skills in information management and patient care technology in the delivery of safe, patient-centered care.

5. Examine the impact of basic processes of healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments on access, equity, and affordability in healthcare delivery.

6. Utilize knowledge and skills of health promotion, disease, and injury prevention across the lifespan to improve health in individual and diverse populations.

7. Apply the professional standards and values fundamental to the discipline of nursing to one’s transition into baccalaureate generalist nursing as a provider of care, a designer, coordinator, and manager of care, and a member of the profession.