Student Learning Outcomes

The Greater Lowell School of Practical Nursing will:

1. Patient Centered Care
         Facilitate holistic care that recognizes an individual’s preferences, values and needs, respecting the patient or designee as a full partner while providing compassionate, coordinated, age appropriate, safe and effective care.

2. Professionalism
         Integrate personal accountability for the delivery and delegation of standard-based nursing care consistent with legal, ethical and humanistic principles.

3. Quality Improvement
        Implement quality improvement initiatives to correlate with health care system practices.

4. Informatics and Technology
        Utilize information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

5. Communication
         Utilize clear, concise, and effective communication with diverse patient populations and healthcare team members to promote positive health outcomes.

6. Safety
         Detects the risk of harm to patients, providers, self, and designees through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

7. Evidence-Based Practice
          Integrate clinical expertise, critical thinking, and consideration of patient’s or designee’s preferences, supported by the best current evidence, to make practice decisions.

Upon completion of Term III, the student must meet the above Student Learning Outcomes in order to graduate.