Nursing

Mission Statment

The mission of Weber State University School of Nursing is to provide quality and safety education for nursing students who have the knowledge, skills and attitudes in the following:

1. Patient Centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patients’ preferences, values, and needs.

2. Teamwork and Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.

3. Evidence-based Practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.

4. Quality Improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems, including participating in healthcare policy.

5. Patient Safety: Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance

6. Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making

Student Learning Outcomes

Certificates (Not Applicable)

Associate Degrees

Students completing the Associate of Applied Science Practical to Registered Nursing (PN to RN), Associate of Science PN to RN, and Associate of Science in Nursing degrees will demonstrate:

1. Patient Centered Care: Use nursing knowledge to include the patient in all care processes and decisions. Design and implement care which is adapted and centered on the unique wholeness of the individual patient and their family.

2. Teamwork and Collaboration: Promote collaborative clinical decision making with nursing and interdisciplinary colleagues through implementation of effective communication and team building skills.

3. Evidence-based Practice: Make judgments in practice substantiated with evidence that integrates nursing science and knowledge to provide competent care to individuals and families.

4. Quality Improvement: Monitor patient care outcomes to measure the effectiveness of patient care processes. Suggest and implement changes to improve the quality and safety of patient care.

5. Patient Safety: Incorporate patient safety goals into the plan of care for all patients.

6. Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making when providing direct patient care.

Bachelor Degree

Students completing the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN to BSN) degree will demonstrate:

Student Learning Outcomes / Competencies

1. Patient Centered Care: Integrate nursing expertise to include the patient in all care processes and decisions. Collaborate with patients, families, and communities to design unique and dynamic patient centered care environments.

2. Teamwork and Collaboration: Evaluate the ability to use effective communication and collaboration skills when working with patients, families, and colleagues. Adapt communication, leadership, and teambuilding skills, to promote quality, competent and successful decision-making by nursing and collaborative interdisciplinary teams.

3. Evidence-based Practice: Make judgments in practice substantiated with evidence that synthesizes nursing science and knowledge and integrate in the provision of competent care to individuals, families, and communities.

4. Quality Improvement: Monitor outcomes to apply evidence-based interventions to improve the quality of health care systems.

5. Patient Safety: Generate patient safety plan based on patient safety goals.

6. Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making in a variety of patient care and community settings.