Nursing Purpose & Goals

The purpose and goals for the students of the ADN program are as follows:

• Collaborate with other members of the health care team, patients and their families using evidenced-based practice to provide optimal health care throughout the life span. Professional Growth, Coordinator of Care, Communication, Evidence Based Practice.
  

• Believe in the significance for continued self-evaluation and life-long learning throughout their profession. Professional Growth, Member of Profession.
  

• Initiate and maintain communication and health teaching to meet the needs of clients and families of multicultural backgrounds, providing optimal healthcare throughout the life span. Caring, Coordinator of Care, Communication.
  

• Demonstrate caring interventions that include nurturing and protective, compassionate and person centered care. Caring, Provider of Care Safety.
  

• Provide Safe, competent and individualized care for clients and families by using clinical decision making skills that maintain consistent and precise safety measures in a variety of structured health care settings. Ethical Integrity, Caring, Provider of Care, Safety, Clinical Decision Making.
  

• Maintain ethical integrity and uphold the standards of nursing practice consistent with the roles of the Associate Degree Nurse as a leader or member of the interdisciplinary health team. Ethical Integrity, Member of the Profession, Evidence Based Practice.
  

• Create and maintain a culture of client safety through proper client identification, communication with other health care workers, safe medication administration, reduction of infection risks, prevention of injury, and assessment for psychosocial risk. Safety, Provider of Care, Clinical Decision Making, Communication.

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