End of Program Student Learning Outcomes

Northeastern Junior College End of Program Student Learning Outcomes for Associate Degree Nursing Program

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, patient-centered nursing care in a variety of healthcare settings to diverse patient populations across the lifespan. 
2. Engage in critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make patient-centered care decisions.
3. Implement quality measures to improve patient care. 
4. Participate in collaborative relationships with members of the interdisciplinary team, the patient, and the patient’s support persons.  
5. Use information management principles, techniques, and systems, and patient care technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making. 
6. Provide leadership in a variety of healthcare settings for diverse patient populations.
7. Assimilate professional, legal, and ethical guidelines in practice as a professional nurse.
8. Promote a culture of caring to provide holistic, compassionate, culturally-competent care.