MC1: Effective Communication: Therapeutic communication is central to baccalaureate nursing practice. Students gain an understanding of their ethical responsibility and how verbal and written communication affects others intellectually and emotionally. Students begin to use nursing terminology and taxonomies within the practice of professional and therapeutic communication. Courses require students to write scholarly papers, prepare presentations, develop persuasive arguments, and engage in discussion that is clear, assertive, and respectful.
MC2: Critical Thinking: Courses require students to use critical thinking skills by analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating scientific evidence needed to improve patient outcomes and professional practice.
MC3: Christian Worldview: Students will apply a Christian worldview within a global society and examine ethical issues from the framework of a clearly articulated system of professional values. Students will engage in discussion of values-based decisions made from a Christian perspective.
MC4: Global Awareness, Perspectives, and Ethics: The concept of global citizenship is introduced to baccalaureate students in the foundational curriculum. Some courses will focus on the human experience across the world health continuum. The World Health Organization (WHO) definitions of health, health disparities, and determinants of health are foundational to nursing practice.
MC5: Leadership: Students are required to develop skills and knowledge associated with their professional role. Courses require students to develop self-leadership skills such as time management, setting priorities, self-control, and evaluation of their abilities and performance.
- Domains and Competencies
How does this Individual Success Plan support the Program Domains and Competencies?
Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice
1.3: Demonstrate clinical judgment founded on a broad knowledge base. [AACN 1.3a, 1.3b, 1.3c] – Benchmark
Domain 2: Person-Centered Care
2.5: Develop a plan of care. [AACN 2.5d] – Benchmark
2.8: Promote self-care management. [AACN 2.8d]
Domain 3: Population Health
3.1: Manage population health. [AACN 3.1a, 3.1b, 3.1c, 3.1f, 3.1g]
3.2: Engage in effective partnerships. [AACN 3.2a, 3.2b]
3.3: Consider the socioeconomic impact of the delivery of health care. [AACN 3.3b]
3.5: Demonstrate advocacy strategies. [AACN 3.5a, 3.5b, 3.5c, 3.5d]
Domain 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline
4.1: Advance the scholarship of nursing. [AACN 4.1a, 4.1b, 4.1c, 4.1d, 4.1e, 4.1f, 4.1g] – Benchmark
4.2: Integrate best evidence into nursing practice. [AACN 4.2a, 4.2b, 4.2c, 4.2d, 4.2e] – Benchmark
Domain 5: Quality and Safety
5.1: Apply quality improvement principles in care delivery. [AACN 5.1a, 5.1c, 5.1f, 5.1g, 5.1h] – Benchmark
Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships
6.1: Communicate in a manner that facilitates a partnership approach to quality care delivery. [AACN 6.1a, 6.1b]
6.2: Perform effectively in different team roles, using principles and values of team dynamics. [AACN 6.2d]
6.3: Use knowledge of nursing and other professions to address healthcare needs. [AACN 6.3a, 6.3b, 6.3c] – Benchmark
6.4: Work with other professions to maintain a climate of mutual learning, respect, and shared values. [AACN 6.4a, 6.4b, 6.4d] – Benchmark
Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice
7.1: Apply knowledge of systems to work effectively across the continuum of care. [AACN 7.1a, 7.1d] – Benchmark
7.2: Incorporate consideration of cost-effectiveness of care. [AACN 7.2b, 7.2d, 7.2e, 7.2f] – Benchmark
7.3: Optimize system effectiveness through application of innovation and evidence-based practice. [AACN 7.3a, 7.3c] – Benchmark
Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
8.1: Describe the various information and communication technology tools used in the care of patients, communities, and populations. [AACN 8.1a, 8.1b]
8.3: Use information and communication technologies and informatics processes to deliver safe nursing care to diverse populations in a variety of settings. [AACN 8.3a, 8.3d]
Domain 9: Professionalism
9.1: Demonstrate an ethical comportment in one’s practice reflective of nursing’s mission to society. [AACN 9.1b, 9.1d]
9.2: Employ participatory approach to nursing care. [AACN 9.2g]
9.3: Demonstrate accountability to the individual, society, and the profession. [AACN 9.3a, 9.3d, 9.3e, 9.3h]
9.5: Demonstrate the professional identity of nursing. [AACN 9.5d]
9.6: Integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion as core to one’s professional identity. [AACN 9.6b] – Benchmark
Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development
10.2: Demonstrate a spirit of inquiry that fosters flexibility and professional maturity. [AACN 10.2a, 10.2b, 10.2c, 10.2d]
10.3: Develop capacity for leadership. [AACN 10.3c, 10.3d, 10.3e, 10.3f, 10.3g, 10.3h]