The PNC graduate is prepared for:

Patient-Centered Care
Provides holistic care that recognizes an individual’s and family’s preferences, values, and needs, and respects the client or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate, coordinated, age and culturally appropriate, safe and effective care.

Professionalism
Deliver standard-based care that is consistent with moral, altruistic, legal, ethical, regulatory and humanistic principles.

Leadership
Guide the behavior of individuals or groups within their environment in order to facilitate the establishment and achievement of shared goals.

Systems Based-Practice
Demonstrate the ability to effectively apply work unit resources to provide care that is of optimal quality and value while maintaining awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context of the healthcare system.

Informatics and Technology
Use technology and information to analyze as well as synthesize information to make decisions that optimize patient outcomes.

Communication
Interact effectively with patients, families, and colleagues, fostering mutual respect and shared decision making, to enhance patient satisfaction and health outcomes.

Teamwork and Collaboration
Function effectively within nursing and interprofessional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, shared decision-making, team development.

Safety
Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through individual performance within health care systems.

Quality Improvement
Uses data to monitor the outcomes of care processes, and recommend improvement methods to design changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of the health care systems.

Evidenced Based Practice
Integrate the best current evidence coupled with clinical expertise for the delivery of optimal health care.