Bachelor’s In Nursing Program Outcomes

END OF PROGRAM STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (2017-2018)

  1. Promote holistic patient-centered care and population health supporting values, culture, right to self-fulfillment, and quality care outcomes.
  2. Integrate evidence, nursing theory, and knowledge from other disciplines to guide nursing practice.
  3. Formulate decisions based on nursing judgment and collaboration with the interprofessional team to achieve quality patient outcomes.
  4. Incorporate professional core values, guidelines, standards of practice, and lifelong learning as a basis for professional nursing practice.
  5. Apply principles of leadership to advocate for the unique role of the nursing profession within the healthcare system.
  6. Engage in the spirit of inquiry to propose solutions that support nursing excellence.

ASSESSMENT OF END OF PROGRAM STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

Student learning outcomes within each nursing requirement support students’ achievement of the six end of program student learning outcomes of the bachelor of science in nursing program. Students must pass all requirements to graduate from the program. The achievement of end of program student learning outcomes is assessed through direct and indirect methods and various measures.

DIRECT METHODS

Presented below are the measures and results of direct assessment efforts that best reflect students’ achievement of each end of program student learning outcome (EPSLO) between Summer 2017 and Spring 2018.

INDIRECT METHODS

Alumni surveys are administered upon graduation and one year post-graduation. New end of program student learning outcomes (EPSLOs) were approved by the faculty in July 2014 and phased into nursing requirements beginning with the Fall 2014 trimester. The Exit Survey was updated in August 2015, and the One-year Survey was updated August 2016 to offer students one year of exposure to the new EPSLOs before surveying.

Goal: The expected level of achievement for the exit alumni survey is an average of 5.0 or higher on a 6.0 scale.

For informational purposes only, graduates between July 2017 through June 2018 (n=203) who responded to the Exit Survey (n=42, response rate=21%), indicated high levels of achievement across all EPSLOs.

The nursing program student exit and one-year survey reports are available here.

ASSESSMENT OF PROGRAM OUTCOMES

COMPLETION OF THE BS IN NURSING PROGRAM

The Bachelor of Science in nursing program is designed to be completed at your own pace but must be completed within seven years of enrollment. The average time to completion for part-time students is 3.5 years. Approximately 86% of students who were new to Excelsior College and enrolled between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013 completed the program within 14 trimesters (4.67 years) of attempting their first nursing component requirement.

JOB PLACEMENT RATES

Based on responses to the one-year alumni survey between July 2016 and June 2017 (n=28, response rate=11.2%), 92% of graduates indicated full- (78.6%) or part-time (14.3%) employment, with 92% of those employed working within the field of nursing.

Learn more about the Bachelor’s in Nursing Degree Program