{"id":742,"date":"2026-06-16T11:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xnursing\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=742"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:45:28","slug":"program-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/docs\/handbook\/pnc\/introduction-overview\/program-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PNC graduate is prepared for:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patient-Centered Care<\/strong><br \/>\nProvides holistic care that recognizes an individual\u2019s and family\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professionalism<\/strong><br \/>\nDeliver standard-based care that is consistent with moral, altruistic, legal, ethical, regulatory and humanistic principles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leadership<\/strong><br \/>\nGuide the behavior of individuals or groups within their environment in order to facilitate the establishment and achievement of shared goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Systems Based-Practice<\/strong><br \/>\nDemonstrate 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Informatics and Technology<\/strong><br \/>\nUse technology and information to analyze as well as synthesize information to make decisions that optimize patient outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Communication<\/strong><br \/>\nInteract effectively with patients, families, and colleagues, fostering mutual respect and shared decision making, to enhance patient satisfaction and health outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teamwork and Collaboration<\/strong><br \/>\nFunction effectively within nursing and interprofessional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, shared decision-making, team development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Safety<\/strong><br \/>\nMinimize risk of harm to patients and providers through individual performance within health care systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quality Improvement<\/strong><br \/>\nUses 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evidenced Based Practice<\/strong><br \/>\nIntegrate the best current evidence coupled with clinical expertise for the delivery of optimal health care.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":715,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_is_vendor_doc":"0","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-742","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/742\/revisions\/744"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/715"}],"next":[{"title":"Expected Level of Achievement for Approval","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/docs\/handbook\/pnc\/introduction-overview\/expected-level-of-achievement\/","href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/795"}],"prev":[{"title":"Program Philosophy","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/docs\/handbook\/pnc\/introduction-overview\/program-philosophy\/","href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}