ACONHP Goals

• Provide high quality, innovative student-centered nursing and health related programs built upon scientific disciplines.
• Graduate nurses and health professionals who are prepared to practice person-centered care in diverse local, regional, and global healthcare environments.
• Promote scholarship, scholarly activities, teaching, service, and practice that advances quality, safety, and knowledge in healthcare.
• Develop professional partnerships across professions to enhance healthcare within complex systems.
• Optimize the use of information processes and technologies in healthcare practices.
• Foster a spirit of professional excellence and resilience amongst a diverse population of students, faculty, and staff.

• Function in professional nursing roles.
• Synthesize knowledge from a broad educational foundation upon which professional nursing practice is based. 
• Collaborate with members of health team and other interested groups in identifying and meeting the health needs of individuals, families, and communities. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of the need for continuous personal and professional growth. 
• Acquire basic knowledge about research and the implementation of best evidence into practice. 
• Develop interpersonal and technological skills necessary to assume leadership roles within the BSN scope of practice. 

• Develop competencies in advanced nursing practice, teaching, and/or leadership.
• Facilitate quality care across the lifespan utilizing a systems approach.
• Integrate ethical decision-making to provide culturally competent care.
• Cultivate collaborative relationships across diverse disciplines to improve patient and population health outcomes.
• Integrate evidence-based practice to advance the profession of nursing.
• Incorporate current and emerging technologies to improve health outcomes.

• Construct a scientific knowledge base for nursing practice.
• Incorporate current healthcare delivery approaches that guide person-centered care.
• Summarize principles of safety and quality into practice.
• Assemble evidence-based nursing knowledge to improve population health outcomes.
• Integrate present and emerging health technologies to deliver safe, high-quality healthcare.
• Cultivate a healthcare system that advocates for equitable healthcare across all populations.
• Facilitate interprofessional collaboration that enhances patient or population outcomes. 
• Generate strategies that promote improved health outcomes for all populations. 
• Relate nursing knowledge to practice for the promotion of the profession.