Graduates of the RN-BS emphasis will achieve the following:

• Deliver safe, evidence-based patient-centered nursing care.
• Advocate for the well-being of patients and the profession as leaders and managers.
• Apply foundations of knowledge in humanities and sciences to professional nursing practice.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively to improve patient outcomes.
• Demonstrate professionalism consistent with standards of moral, ethical and legal nursing practice.
• Utilize information management and technologies to lead safe, quality patient care.
• Integrate theory and research into evidence-based practice.
• Recognize that health care delivery and professional nursing practice occur within contexts of social, economic and political environments.
• Promote health and healthy behaviors through collaborative population-focused interventions.