Nursing (B.S.N.)

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates from Messiah’s Nursing program demonstrate: 

1. Critical thinking through the integration of theoretical and empirical knowledge derived from general education courses.
2. Application of knowledge and skills for leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety in all aspects of health care delivery.
3. Application of research for evidence-based nursing practice.
4. Use of knowledge and skills of information management and patient care technology for delivery of quality patient care.
5. Adherence to healthcare policies, including financial, regulatory, and legal parameters in all aspects of nursing practice.
6. Effective communication and collaboration with patients, families, communities, and other health care professionals for the delivery of high quality and safe patient care, including health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, and delivery of effective comprehensive health care services, at the individual and population level.
7. Knowledge of local, national, and global health care issues.
8. Ethical behavior for adherence to the professional values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice.
9. Skill in providing comprehensive holistic, culturally humble care for persons, families, and communities across the lifespan.
10. How faith connects to the field of nursing.

Major Requirements

Complete the following for your major:

Three credits from the following:

QuEST Requirements

*The choice of either a third semester of a language, a cross cultural, or a non-western studies course applies only to the Nursing major.