Mission Statement  

FMU Department of Nursing prepares graduates to function competently as caring professional nurses in a variety of healthcare settings. The program endeavors to instill in students the value of lifelong learning.

BSN Program Learning Outcomes
The baccalaureate generalist program in nursing prepares the graduate to:

• Utilize the liberal education courses as the cornerstone for study and practice of professional nursing.
• Incorporate the knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and client safety in the provision of high quality health care.
• Provide safe, effective and compassionate care to all individuals and groups across the lifespan based upon the principles and models of evidence-based practice, understand the research process, have the ability to retrieve, evaluate, and synthesize evidence in collaboration with healthcare team members to practice in a manner that improves client outcomes.
• Incorporate information management, client care technologies, and communication devices in providing safe and effective client care.
• Incorporate information on healthcare policies, including financial and regulatory, directly and indirectly influencing the nature and functioning of the healthcare system in professional nursing practice.
• Demonstrate effective inter-professional communication and collaboration through verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills to practice individual accountability, client advocacy, conflict resolution principles, and teambuilding strategies.
• Integrate knowledge and skill derived from the physical sciences, bio-psycho-social sciences, humanities, and nursing in the provision of holistic care to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations across the life span with a focus on health promotion, disease and injury prevention.
• Demonstrate and utilize principles of legal ethical core values of professionalism with the application of professional values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity and social justice in the delivery of care to all clients across the lifespan
• Utilize the roles of provider of care, manager/coordinator of care, and member of the profession in developing and providing safe, effective, and compassionate care to all clients across the lifespan with diverse multicultural needs.  This includes but is not limited to cultural, spiritual, ethnic, gender and sexual orientation to diversity (AACN, Baccalaureate Essentials, 2008)

MSN Program Learning Outcomes

The core values of the graduate program of the Francis Marion University Department of Nursing include facilitating role transition from baccalaureate nursing to advanced practice which includes excellence, holism, integrity, patient-centeredness, caring, diversity, and ethics. These core values are evident throughout the program curriculum.

The FMU MSN program outcomes are based upon the Competencies for Graduates of Master’s programs developed by the National League for Nursing (NLN, 2010) which are:

1. Human Flourishing: Function as a leader and change agent in one’s specialty area of practice to create systems that promote human flourishing (NLN, 2010, p. 40).
2. Nursing Judgment: Make judgments in one’s specialty area of practice that reflect scholarly critiques of current evidence from nursing and other disciplines and the capacity to identify gaps in knowledge and formulate research questions (NLN, 2010, p. 40)
3. Professional Identity: Implement one’s advanced practice role in ways that foster best practices, promote the personal and professional growth of oneself and others, demonstrate leadership, promote positive change in people and systems, and advance the profession (NLN, 2010, p. 40).
4. Spirit of Inquiry: Contribute to the science of nursing in one’s specialty area of practice by analyzing underlying disparities in knowledge or evidence; formulating research questions; and systematically evaluating the impact on quality when evidence-based solutions to nursing problems are implemented (NLN, 2010, p. 40).