Program Outcomes for the Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing Program

The BSN Curriculum is designed to prepare graduates for entry into professional nursing
practice. Baccalaureate generalist nurses are providers of direct and indirect care and function as
designers, coordinators and managers of care. Professional nursing requires strong critical
reasoning, clinical judgment, communication, and assessment skills. As healthcare providers,
professional nurses function autonomously and interdependently within the healthcare team
across all environments. Professional nurses focus on individual, family, community, and
population health care as they monitor and manage aspects of the environment to foster health
and well-being.

The AUM BSN curriculum prepares nurses to:

1. Apply knowledge from diverse concepts and theories from liberal education to
generalist nursing care principles and practice experiences; (Essential I)

o NURS 3111 Fundaments of Nursing

o Personal values assignment
o Laboratory hours and practice hours
o Thinking like a nurse assignment
o Simulation lab
o Validation
 NG Tube Insertion
 Sterile Gloving and Dressing Change
 Insertion of Indwelling Urinary Catheter
o Lab practice hours
o NURS 3131 Assessment for Professional Nursing
o Care plan
o Lab practice hours
o Validation
 Physical Assessment
 IV insertion and discontinuation
 Mock Hospital
o NURS 3221 Nursing Care of the Adult I
o Care Plan
o Validation
 Medication administration
 PO Medications & Injections
 IV push and IV piggyback
o Lab practice hours
o Jackson Hospital Simulation

2. Apply leadership concepts, skills and decision making in the provision of safe,
quality care and to function as a member of an interprofessional team; (Essential II)

o NURS 3131 Assessment for Professional Nursing

o Mock hospital
 o NURS 4430 Nursing Leadership & Management
o Leadership Concepts and Decision Making
o NURS 4431 Transition to Practice
o Preceptorship to apply skills learned from NURS 4430

3. Integrate evidence, clinical judgment, interprofessional perspectives, patient

preferences and outcome measures in planning, implementing, and evaluating
outcomes of care; (Essential III)

o NURS 3131 Assessment for Professional Nursing

o Care plan
o NURS 3221 Nursing Care of the Adult
o Care Plan
o Simulation at Jackson Hospital
o NURS 4431 Transition to Practice
o Simulation at Jackson Hospital
o Preceptorship at Baptist Medical Center South

4. Demonstrate skills in using patient care technologies, information systems, and

communication devices that support safe practice and analysis of patient data for
outcome analysis; (Essential IV)

o NURS 4150 Informatics

o Consumer Health Information Project

5. Demonstrate knowledge of healthcare policy, legal, finance and regulatory issues

that impact healthcare delivery and safe nursing practice; (Essential V)

o NURS 4430 Nursing Leadership & Management

o Learning Objectives Week 5

6. Utilize effective inter and intraprofessional communication skills to deliver

evidence-based, patient centered care; (Essential VI)

o NURS 3150 Evidence-Based Practice

o Final Presentation -- Neonates with Hypoglycemia
o NURS 4251 Nursing Care for the Pediatric Patient & Support Network
o Clinicals at Children’s of Alabama
o NURS 3341 Transition to Practice
o Preceptorship at Baptist Medical Center South

7. Assess determinants of health in relation to factors such as family history, individual

health, values, beliefs, emergency preparedness and other factors to advocate for the
delivery of health promotion and disease prevention strategies; (Essential VII)
 o NURS 4261 Community/Public Health Nursing
o Clinicals
 Baptist Hospice
 Medical Outreach Ministries
 Salvation Army
 Joint Camp
o Virtual Simulation Assignments

8. Demonstrate professionalism and protect patient privacy and confidentiality and

accountability for personal and professional behavior; (Essential VIII)

o NURS 3111 Fundaments of Nursing

o Clinicals at Prattville Health and Rehabilitation Center
o NURS 3131 Assessment for Professional Nursing
o Clinicals at Prattville Baptist Hospital
o NURS 3221 Nursing Care of the Adult I
o Clinicals at Prattville Baptist Hospital
o NURS 4251 Nursing Care for the Pediatric Patient & Support Network
o Clinicals at The Learning Tree, Children’s of Alabama, School Nursing at
Elmore County Hospital
o NURS 4241 Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family
o Clinicals at Baptist East Labor & Delivery/Postpartum/Nursery, OB-GYN
Associates Nurse-Midwife Practice, Baptist South NICU
o NURS 4261 Community/Public Health Nursing
o Clinicals at Baptist Hospice, Medical Outreach Ministries
o NURS 4371 Nursing Care of the Adult II
o Clinicals at Baptist Medical Center South
o NURS 4431 Transition to Practice
o Preceptorship at Baptist Medical Center South

9. Provide holistic, compassionate, patient-centered care that is culturally appropriate

and evidence-based while managing the acute and chronic care of patients and
promoting health across the lifespan. (Essential IX)

o NURS 3221 Nursing Care of the Adult I

o Clinicals at Prattville Baptist Hospital
o NURS 4251 Nursing Care for the Pediatric Patient & Support Network
o Clinicals at The Learning Tree, Children’s of Alabama, School Nursing at
Elmore County Hospital
o NURS 4241 Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family
o Clinicals at Baptist East Labor & Delivery/Postpartum/Nursery, OB-GYN
Associates Nurse-Midwife Practice, Baptist South NICU
o NURS 4261 Community/Public Health Nursing
o Clinicals at Baptist Hospice, Medical Outreach Ministries
o NURS 4371 Nursing Care of the Adult II
o Clinicals at Baptist Medical Center South
o NURS 4431 Transition to Practice
o Preceptorship at Baptist Medical Center South