Student and Program Outcomes

Nursing Licensure Exam Pass Rates

USI’s BSN program continues to maintain NCLEX pass rates well above the national average of 80%. The high NCLEX pass rate is a distinction that speaks to the quality of the students, the faculty and USI's Nursing Program.

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BSN Program Outcomes

The University of Southern Indiana BSN graduate is prepared to:

1. Apply critical thinking to nursing practice using established and evolving knowledge from nursing and other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences.
2. Deliver holistic person-centered care that is individualized, equitable, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate.
3. Assess, provide, and promote population health care including wellness, social determinants of health, and disease prevention and management, through collaborative activities with community partners for equitable population health outcomes.
4. Evaluate and apply evidence-based knowledge to inform nursing practice and improve health outcomes.
5. Implementing established and emerging principles of safety and quality improvement as core values of nursing practice to enhance care delivery and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Collaborate with interprofessional teams, patients, families, communities, and other constituents to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and improve outcomes.
7. Apply knowledge of healthcare systems to optimize innovation and evidence-based practice within complex healthcare systems to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations.
8. Utilize information and communication technologies and informatic processes to gather data, support evidence-based decision-making, and provide care in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
9. Develop a professional identity demonstrating caring, civility, integrity, accountability, a collaborative disposition, and behaviors that reflect nursing’s characteristics and values.
10. Participate in activities and self-reflection fostering personal health, resilience, and well-being, commit to lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and leadership attributes.

MSN Program Outcomes

The University of Southern Indiana MSN graduate is prepared to:

1. Translate and integrate established and evolving knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to advanced nursing practice specialties.
2. Coordinate and manage holistic person-centered care that is individualized, equitable, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate.
3. Analyze and evaluate population health care including wellness, social determinants of health, and disease prevention and management in collaboration with community partners to promote equitable population health outcomes at the advanced nursing practice specialty level.
4. Appraise, synthesize, and apply evidence to advanced nursing practice to improve health outcomes, advance the profession, and transform healthcare.
5. Coordinate the implementation of initiatives utilizing principles of safety and quality improvement as core values of advance nursing practice specialties to enhance care delivery and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Lead interprofessional teams to collaborate with patients, families, communities, and other constituents to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and improve outcomes.
7. Analyze and manage complex healthcare systems to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations.
8. Integrate information and communication technologies and informatic processes to gather data, support evidence-based decision-making, provide care, and expand knowledge and wisdom in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards within advanced nursing practice specialties.
9. Cultivate a professional identity aligning with advanced nursing practice specialties, demonstrating caring, civility, integrity, accountability, a collaborative disposition, and behaviors that reflect nursing’s characteristics and values.
10. Lead activities and self-reflection fostering personal health, resilience, and well-being, promote lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.

DNP Program Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, the DNP graduate will be able to:

1. Lead the analysis, synthesis, and integration of established and evolving knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to advanced nursing practice specialties at the highest level of nursing science.
2. Design, lead, and evaluate holistic person-centered care that is individualized, equitable, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate.
3. Evaluate and synthesize evidence promoting strategies to impact health policy addressing wellness, social determinants of health, and disease prevention and management in collaboration with community partners to promote equitable population health outcomes at the advanced nursing practice specialty level.
4. Appraise, synthesize, translate, and disseminate evidence to advanced nursing practice to improve health outcomes, advance the profession, and transform healthcare.
5. Develop and lead initiatives utilizing principles of safety and quality improvement as core values of advance nursing practice specialties to enhance care delivery and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Foster and lead interprofessional teams to collaborate across professions with patients, families, communities, and other constituents to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and improve outcomes.
7. Lead system wide strategies within complex healthcare systems to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations.
8. Evaluate information and communication technologies and informatic processes to gather data, support evidence-based decision-making, provide care, and expand knowledge and wisdom in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards within advanced nursing practice specialties.
9. Model and advocate for a professional identity aligning with advanced nursing practice specialties, demonstrating caring, civility, integrity, accountability, a collaborative disposition, and behaviors that reflect nursing’s characteristics and values.
10. Design and lead activities and self-reflection fostering personal health, resilience, and well-being, promote lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.

Graduate Nursing Specialty Track Outcomes