Registered Nursing Program: Day/Alternative Options

• Evaluate nursing care provided to patients and families from diverse backgrounds in a variety of settings to ensure that it is compassionate, age and culturally appropriate and based on a patient's preferences, values and needs.
• Collaborate with members of the interprofessional health care team to manage and coordinate the provision of safe, quality care for patients and families.
• Use current evidence from scientific, peer reviewed sources and clinical expertise when making clinical decisions in the provision of patient-centered care.
• Use evidence-based quality improvement processes to effect change in the delivery of patient-centered care.
• Analyze effective use of strategies to mitigate errors and reduce the risk of harm to patients, self and others in a variety of settings.
• Use evidence-based information and patient care technology to communicate relevant patient information, manage care and mitigate error in the provision of safe, quality patient-centered care.
• Integrate integrity and accountability into practices that uphold established regulatory, legal, and ethical principles while providing patient-centered, standard-based nursing care.
• Use leadership, management and priority-setting skills in the provision and management of safe, quality patient-centered care.

Graduates of this option qualify for employment in hospitals, long-term care facilities, HMOs, clinics, doctors’ offices, and other community health agencies.