Course 1: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: practice accountability for quality improvement, consumer advocacy and cost effective use of health care resources within the legal/ethical standards of the nursing profession in providing care for diverse medical-surgical patients/consumers across the life span and their families; apply knowledge from the biological, behavioral, social and nursing sciences in providing safe, technically competent and holistic nursing care of patients/consumers of various ages and their families responding to complex medical-surgical health problems; practice as an effective member of the interdisciplinary health team through integrating critical thinking, collaboration, nursing process and shared decision making to evaluate primary, secondary and tertiary interventions to assist patients/consumers/families experiencing complex medical-surgical problems achieve desired outcomes at various points along the wellness-illness continuum; demonstrate a caring relationship, therapeutic communication and positive interpersonal skills to promote effective individual and health team interaction to achieve consumer satisfaction in patients/consumers/families with complex acute and chronic medical-surgical problems; function as a nurse teacher to promote, maintain and restore wellness through sharing of knowledge, skills and anticipatory guidance needed for the medical-surgical patient/consumer/family to achieve self-care and optimal health; and exhibit qualities of self-development that indicates personal and professional growth. Course 2: Version 1 and 2: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: respect the philosophy, beliefs, interests and needs of each client with biopsychosocial alterations of major life functions; discuss legal and professional ramifications of caring for acutely ill individuals; relate theoretical and scientific nursing principles to the human responses of acutely ill clients whose health patterns are dysfunctional; integrate the nursing process to implement a plan of care with clients who have rapidly changing biopsychosocial health conditions; use therapeutic communication techniques to distinguish between highly unstable functional and/or organic problems in order to provide support to the client; implement the teaching-learning process appropriate to the developmental levels of individuals (pediatric, adult, and elderly) and their families to stabilize and/or improve fluctuating situations; and analyze self perception regarding personal and professional growth. Course 3: Version 1 and 2: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: relate legal, moral, ethical, and professional principles to critically ill clients and their families; use knowledge of the biopsychosocial and nursing sciences relevant to the specific responses that occur as the clients respond to problems of critical life function; adapt the nursing process to assist critically ill clients in the restoration of their homeokinesis; interact with members of the health team in attaining the highest level possible on the wellness-illness continuum for clients with critical illnesses; appraise the teaching-learning process applicable to the critically ill clients and families at various developmental levels (pediatric, adult, and elderly); and examine own personal and professional development as it applies to critical care situations.

Course 1: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: identify moral, legal, ethical and professional standards for nursing practice; identify scientific principles underlying selected nursing actions to promote and/or maintain health; differentiate between the components of the nursing process utilized to assist individual client's achievement and/or maintenance of health/wellness; describe the process of effective communication in promoting interaction with individual clients, faculty, peers and nursing teams; recognize teaching and learning principles as they apply to selected client teaching situations; and actively participate in the learning process through shared experiences, discussions and group interactions. Course 2: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: utilize moral, legal, ethical and professional standards of practice, with guidance, in selected situations; implement selected nursing actions based on scientific principles to promote healthy client response; apply the nursing process with guidance to assist hospitalized individual adult clients to achieve and/or maintain optimum level of health/wellness; employ facilitative communication skills, with guidance, in interacting with individual clients, faculty, peers and nursing teams; utilize teaching actions appropriate to the individual's learning needs to achieve a healthier existence; and adapt assertiveness skills in identifying and meeting one's own learning needs.

Version 1 and 2: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: apply moral, legal, professional, and ethical standards with emphasis on confidentiality with clients who have deficits in ego functioning; use nursing and scientific principles of mental health and apply the nursing process to meet the holistic health needs of psychiatric clients; recognize the impact of developmental tasks in relation to the client's chronological age, personality development, and behavior; use therapeutic communication and attending skills to communicate with a psychiatric client; employ teaching concepts and principles to assist clients and their families learn adaptive ego functions; and develop self-understanding and self-esteem to facilitate therapeutic use of self. Version 3: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: demonstrate accountability for continuous quality improvement, research-based practice, consumer advocacy, and cost-effective use of health care resources within the legal/ethical standards while caring for acutely ill patients; integrate knowledge from biological, behavioral, social, and nursing sciences to provide safe, technically competent and holistic nursing care to acutely ill patients; function as an effective member of an interdisciplinary healthcare team by utilizing critical-thinking and nursing process skills to implement a plan of care for patients that have rapidly changing health needs; Incorporate a caring relationship, therapeutic communication, positive interpersonal and information management skills to provide support to the patient and family; integrate principles of the teaching/learning process to promote, maintain, and restore optimal wellness to the patient experiencing an acute illness; and demonstrate a commitment to being a contributing member of the nursing profession through analysis of personal and professional growth.