Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the LVN to RN nursing program the graduating student will competently perform in the following areas:

Communication Skills
  • Uses appropriate therapeutic communication techniques and basic leadership skills to establish a therapeutic environment for patient care management
  • Demonstrates effective communication skills in nurse/client and professional relationships in the practice of nursing
Critical Thinking and Reasoning
  • Uses the nursing process to plan, assess and diagnose health status, implement therapeutic interventions, and evaluate outcomes and care for client/patients
  • Provides safe direct nursing care to client/patients by using evidence based practice, the nursing process, and principles of caring taking into consideration the physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, developmental, and spiritual aspects of care
  • Formulates an individualized nursing care plan for assigned patients
  • Integrates and demonstrates clinical decision making and critical thinking skills to provide effective nursing care for individuals throughout the developmental stages
Information Competency and Informatics
  • Employs appropriate scientific resources and technology to plan and deliver patient care
  • Documents patient care as per facility policy
Diversity
  • Prioritizes nursing actions to coincide with changing patient conditions, cultural variants, and multiple patient assignments
  • Integrates knowledge of cultural diversity across the life span to provide and manage client care in a variety of health care environments
Civic Responsibility
  • Anticipates ethical-legal dilemmas and intervenes as a patient advocate
  • Integrates knowledge of legal aspects and ethical principles to provide and manage client/patient care in a variety of health care environments
Life Skills and Careers
  • Identifies and displays the process of lifelong learning
  • Correlates theoretical concepts and clinical practice to identify the complex needs of patients in multiple settings
Critical Elements
  • Demonstrates and maintains the identified overriding critical elements of asepsis, caring, and safety while providing patient care
Professionalism
  • Displays and maintains professional behavior at all times.
  • Acts as an advocate in order to assist the individual’s progress towards optimal wellness by minimizing stressors, strengthening coping abilities, and maximizing available resources
  • Provides patient/client teaching with the goal of promoting healthy behaviors, reducing stressors, and enhancing coping resources
  • Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for self-direction and self-evaluations.
  • Incorporates sound leadership principles in planning, managing, and delivering health care in interdisciplinary teams, including delegation and supervision of nursing care being delivered by others
  • Provides professional nursing practice in accordance with the Business and Professions Code Scope of Regulation, Nursing Practice Act, and the California Code of Regulations pertaining to registered nursing.