BSN Mission, Goals, and Outcomes

Mission 

The Rockhurst University Saint Luke’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences Bachelor of Science in Nursing program provides quality education through innovative curricula. Students are educated as nurse generalists to provide high-quality, safe, and evidence-based practice to diverse populations in a variety of settings. The graduates are prepared with a liberal arts education for the role of the professional nurse, which encompasses thoughtful leadership, compassionate service, scholarship, and lifelong learning.  

Program Goals 

• Prepare the graduate for the role of the professional nurse. 
• Provide an environment of trust, student engagement, and academic support. Provide high-quality nursing education. 
• Promote a culture of safety. 
• Integrate the students into clinical practice and transition the students into nursing culture. 
• Increase the diversity of the student population with an emphasis on cultural awareness. 
• Be a leader in NCLEX board pass rate for the region. 
• Provide population-focused education to produce graduates that provide efficient, effective health care. 
• Create an innovative, cutting-edge environment for nursing students in this fast-changing field of health care. ​

Student Learning Outcomes 

• Practice safe, effective, holistic, and client/family-centered nursing with diverse individuals, families, and populations. 
• Consistently demonstrate professionalism and leadership. 
• Collaborate with other disciplines and organizations to develop interventions and strategies that optimize client outcomes. 
• Synthesize multiple ways of knowing to inform practice, make clinical judgments and creatively transform knowledge to provide humanistic, quality client-centered care with tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity. 
• Use principles of quality improvement, evidence-based practice, health care policy, and cost effectiveness to enhance client outcomes, and participates in opportunities to engender change.