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Out with the Old & In with the New
Program Outcomes
Student Learning Outcomes
Integrating Concepts
Core Values
100
The Kellogg Community College Nursing Program provides excellent educational experiences that integrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to prepare safe and competent nurse generalists who provide quality nursing care in a culturally diverse, global society.
What is KCC nursing department mission?
100
The pass rates of first time U.S.-educated nurses that took the NCLEX-RN®.
What is a NCLEX Pass rate?
100
Statements of expectations written in measurable terms that express what a student will know, do, or think at the end of a learning experience; characteristics of the student at the completion of course and/or program.
What are student learning outcomes?
100
Conditions or social system within which the organization’s members act to achieve specific goals. A product of the organization’s human resource, and also the policies, procedure, rewards, leadership, supervision, and other attributes that influence interpersonal interactions.
What is context and environment?
100
Promoting health, healing and hope in response to the human condition.
What is caring?
200
This concept was removed as a stand-alone concept and incorporated in the ACEN graduate outcomes of human flourishing, nursing judgment, professional identity and spirit of inquiry. It is also integrated in QSEN competencies.
What is communication?
200
The number of students who complete the program within 150% of the stated program length beginning with enrollment in the first nursing course.
What is a program completion rate?
200
Advocate for patients and families that promote their self-determination, integrity, and ongoing growth as a human being.
What is human flourishing?
200
The foundations that serve as a basis for nursing practice which, in turn, deepen, extend, and help generate new knowledge and new theories that continue to build the science and further the practice.
What is Knowledge and Science?
200
Recognizing differences among “persons, ideas, values and ethnicities,” while affirming uniqueness of each.
What is diversity?
300
Those beliefs or ideals which form the foundation for the work of a governing organization and/or nursing program.
What are core values?
300
A tool used to study alumni that explore graduates’ unique perspective regarding the contribution of education to their lives after graduation. Collects feedback on the recent transition into the workforce and their perceptions of their employability after studying nursing.
What is a graduation survey?
300
Making judgments in practice, substantiated with evidence, that integrate nursing science in the provision of safe, quality care and promotes the health of clients.
What is nursing judgment?
300
A lifelong process of learning, refining and integrating values and behaviors that are consistent with the profession’s history, goals, and codes of ethics that serve to distinguish the practice of nurses from that of other health care providers, and give nurses the courage needed to continually improve the care of patients, families, and communities and to ensure the profession’s ongoing viability.
What is personal and professional development?
300
Creating and implementing transformative strategies with dating ingenuity.
What is excellence?
400
Expected culmination of all learning experiences for a particular course within the nursing program, including the mastery of essential core competencies relevant to that course. Old term is course competencies.
What are course outcomes?
400
A tool used by an organization or a business to measure the liking and approval of a particular group.
What is employer satisfaction survey?
400
Implement one’s role as a nurse in ways that reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices, and an evolving identity as a nurse committed to evidence based practice, caring, advocacy, and safe, quality care for diverse patients within a family and community context.
What is professional identity?
400
The degree to which health care services are provided in a way consistent with current professional knowledge, minimize the risk of harm to individuals, populations, and providers, to increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are operationalized from an individual unit, and systems perspective.
What is quality and safety?
400
Respecting the dignity and moral wholeness of every person without conditions or limitations.
What is integrity?
500
Indicators that reflect the extent to which the purposes of the nursing education unit are achieved and by which program effectiveness is documented; Measurable, consumer-oriented indexes designed to evaluate the degree to which the program is achieving its mission and goals.
What are program outcomes?
500
Number of graduates, one year after graduation, employed in a position for which the program prepared them.
What are job placement rates?
500
Examine the evidence that underlies clinical nursing practice to challenge status quo, question underlying assumptions, and offer new insights to improve quality of care for client’s families, and communities.
What is spirit of inquiry?
500
Caring, therapeutic relationships with members of the health care team at the core of nursing practice. It integrates and reflects respect for the dignity and uniqueness of others, valuing diversity, integrity, humility, mutual trust, self-determination, empathy, civility, the capacity for grace, and empowerment.
What is relationship centered care or teamwork?
500
An orientation to care that incorporates and reflects the uniqueness of an individual patient’s background, personal preferences, culture, values, traditions, and family.
What is Patient-Centeredness?