KSC Nursing Program graduates will:

• Demonstrate accountability for practicing nursing within established moral, legal, ethical, regulatory, and humanistic principles.
• Demonstrate awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care and the ability to call on system resources to provide optimal care.
• Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
• Identify, evaluate, and use the best current evidence coupled with clinical expertise and consideration of patients’ preferences, experience, and values to make practice decisions.
• Function effectively within nursing and interdisciplinary teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, shared decision-making, team learning, and development.
• Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both individual performance and system effectiveness.
• Use data to monitor outcomes and care processes, and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care.
• Influence the behavior of individuals or groups of individuals within their environment in a way that will facilitate the establishment and acquisition/achievement of shared goals.
• Deliver holistic nursing care, advocate for health promotion and disease prevention strategies at the individual, family, community, and global levels.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills with clients that foster mutual respect and shared decision making to enhance patient satisfaction and health outcomes.