BSN Program Student Educational Outcomes

At the completion of the BSN program, a graduate of the St. David’s School of Nursing at Texas State University will be able to:

1. Facilitate safe, holistic and effective patient/family centered care outcomes through use of evidence-based research and other science-based frameworks to promote and maintain health, prevent disease, and manage illness.
2. Demonstrate professional accountability and responsibility for nursing judgments and actions within an ethical and legal framework, utilizing the most current knowledge.
3. Demonstrate leadership in the provision and coordination of safe, cost effective and high quality nursing care.
4. Advocate for patients, families, communities, and the nursing profession, applying values and utilizing an ethical framework, clinical reasoning, and cultural competence.
5. Utilize information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, educate, mitigate error and support decision making.
6. Provide entry-level professional nursing care to clients across the lifespan in a variety of health care settings.
7. Promote a culture of caring to provide holistic, compassionate, culturally competent care.
8. Function effectively within nursing and interprofessional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision making to achieve quality patient care.