Briar Cliff University - The Catholic Franciscan Learning Place

Nursing

Bachelor of Science

The Department of Nursing offers a basic program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing and eligibility to take the required RN licensure examination (NCLEX-RN). This option represents an opportunity for a broad-based liberal education and a strong base for professional nursing practice. Theoretical nursing knowledge is applied in a variety of practice settings, including hospitals, community health agencies, long-term care facilities, and other institutional and community based settings.

Upon graduation, students majoring in nursing will be able to:

• Solidify caring, wholistic relationships with multiple clients through being, knowing, acting with compassion and respecting cultural, racial, and ethnic diversity in the global society.
• Synthesize the breadth and depth of knowledge from the humanities and natural and social sciences in the application of the art and science of nursing to multiple clients.
• Utilize the art and science of nursing to determine interventions to promote the health of all clients.
• Integrate nursing theory into the art and science of nursing.
• Collaborate, using a variety of communication skills, with clients and inter/intraprofessionals to promote optimal health outcomes for all clients.
• Utilize decision-making processes based on legal, ethical, political, sociocultural, and spiritual dimensions while demonstrating leadership and in the delivery of health care.
• Incorporate responsibility and accountability for the ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of one's own nursing practice.
• Evaluate the teaching/learning needs of self and of all clients in the provision of nursing interventions.  
• Critique and integrate evidence from nursing research into the art and science of nursing.
• Establish the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the health care systems in which they practice.