• Practice in a variety of healthcare settings • Care for patients across the health-illness continuum • Care for patients across the lifespan • Care for diverse populations • Engage in care of self in order to care for others; and • Engage in continuous professional development
The NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model is threaded through the curriculum to build clinical judgment and critical thinking.
III-F The curriculum is logically structured to achieve expected student outcomes. • Baccalaureate curricula build on a foundation of the arts, sciences, and humanities.
The curriculum includes a solid base in liberal education including the biological, mathematics, social sciences, and the humanities to support critical decision making. A liberal education assists in the development of personal values and goals supporting ethical clinical judgment throughout their practice working with a variety of populations and cultures (AACN, 2008). During the site visit for the RN-BSN program there was concern about courses focusing on art. General education faculty met to consider the most appropriate course to add to the BSN curriculum and chose Culture and the Arts. This course is: An exploration of Culture and Art as artifacts of community building, ethnic identity support, sociological dynamics, and examples of neighborhood energy. This course focuses on art and street art in many different forms: graffiti and murals, drumming and music, drama in many forms, fashion, sculpture, food, and other forms of artistic expression found in ethnic communities. Using ethnicity as a defining lens, students explore urban neighborhoods for examples of art that define and refine the cultural signature of the neighborhood. Culture and the Arts is taught in the first term along with the first anatomy & physiology, pharmacology, and English courses. Ethics is taken during the fifth term and Intercultural Communication is taken during the seventh term. These courses support the professional nurse caring for diverse populations across the lifespan. The BSN Program at Sumner College is 120 academic weeks in length and includes 183.5 credit hours and 2320 clock hours of instruction. The program utilized quarter-credits. Terms are 10 weeks in length. There are twelve (12) terms in the BSN program. The program increases critical thinking and nursing clinical decision making, builds on previous knowledge as students work through the terms and incorporates best practices and national initiatives which are woven throughout the curriculum.
The flow of courses allows for continued building of knowledge. Term one includes basic general education courses and NUR120 Introduction to BSN and Strategies for Success. This
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