Graduate Attributes
- Knowledge of nursing science
- Communication skill
- Critical thinking
- Problem Solving
- Leadership quality
- Independency and team work
- Professionalism
- Ethics
- Environmental sustainability
- Self-directed and Life-long Learning
Core Competencies (adopted and modified from INC core competencies)
- Patient centered care : provide holistic care respecting the individual patient’s preferences, values and needs, that is compassionate, coordinated, age and culturally appropriate safe and effective care
- Professionalism : demonstrate accountability for the delivery of standard-based nursing care that is consistent with moral, altruistic, legal, ethical, regulatory and humanistic principles
- Leadership : influence the behavior of individuals and groups within their environment and facilitate establishment of shared goals
- Communication : interact effectively with patients, families and colleagues fostering mutual respect and shared decision making to enhance patient satisfaction and health outcomes
- Teamwork and Collaboration : function effectively within nursing, interdisciplinary teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, shared decision making, team learning and development
- Safety : minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance
- Quality improvement : use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and utilize improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of healthcare system
- Evidence based practice : identify, evaluate and use the best current evidence coupled with clinical expertise and consideration of patient’s preferences, experience and values to make practical decisions