University of Colorado College of Nursing

Competencies

Upon completion of the nursing program, students will be prepared to incorporate pertinent knowledge, values and abilities for direct and indirect provider roles to:

• Implement caring and competent nursing practice with individuals, families and communities based on understanding the human experiences of health, illness and healing.
• Integrate the ethical use of technology and information systems to augment the human capacity for health, facilitate decision-making, support collaboration and foster communication.
• Promote health of local to global communities through promoting safe environments and safe and effective health care addressing the interaction among individuals, communities and their environmental contexts.
• Manage care to achieve quality, cost-effective and ethical outcomes in the delivery of health care for individuals, families and populations.
• Engage in leadership to promote social justice related to access, quality and socio-cultural acceptability of health care through relationship-centered caring, advocacy and empowerment.
• Negotiate and adapt the delivery and management of health care and health care systems for diverse populations and environments.
• Practice relationship-centered caring through self-awareness, by developing and maintaining respectful relationships, communicating effectively, and integrating the influence of the human experience of health, illness and healing.
• Practice nursing reflectively, guided by theory, based on best evidence and integrating creative and critical thinking.
• Participate in generating and testing knowledge regarding nursing, health care and reflective caring practice.
• Actively engage in self-directed learning to maintain state of the art nursing practice and to facilitate the education of future practitioners, paraprofessionals and healthy communities

Faculty

Faculty is one of the cornerstones of any program. They provide direction for the curriculum, incorporate their research endeavors into their teaching, provide guidance to learners, serve as mentors and create innovative learning opportunities. We are fortunate at the University of Colorado College of Nursing to have many faculty involved with our program. We have a cadre of extremely well qualified faculty and associates who teach, conduct research and serve as preceptors and mentors for our students. Our faculty are located in Colorado and the United States. Our faculty are extremely committed to the discipline of nurse midwifery and serve on many national and international boards and are leaders in several professional organizations. Please take a look at the experts in pediatric nurse practitioners that are part of our master’s program.

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