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This baccalaureate program prepares the graduate in the following areas:

Faith-Informed Public Health Leadership
Integrate Christ-centered discipleship with ethical public health practice, demonstrating integrity, respect for human dignity, and servant leadership in efforts to promote health and wellness across diverse populations.

Population Health Assessment
Systematically assess the health status, assets, needs, and determinants of health within communities using epidemiologic principles, data analysis, and community-engaged approaches to inform evidence-based decision-making.

Health Education and Promotion Planning
Design culturally responsive, theory-informed health education and promotion initiatives that address social determinants of health and advance health equity across diverse populations.

Program Implementation and Community Engagement
Implement health promotion strategies in collaboration with community partners, stakeholders, and interdisciplinary teams to strengthen capacity, improve access, and foster sustainable health outcomes.

Evaluation and Applied Public Health Research
Apply quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate programs, interpret data, and contribute to public health research that informs practice, policy, and continuous improvement.

Health Communication
Communicate public health information clearly and persuasively to individuals, communities, policymakers, and professional audiences using appropriate messaging strategies and media platforms.

Public Health Advocacy and Policy Engagement
Advocate for policies and systems-level changes that advance population health, reduce health disparities, and strengthen the public health profession at local, national, and global levels.

This baccalaureate program prepares the graduate in the following field:

Knowledge for Nursing Practice 
Develop and continually seek nursing and interdisciplinary knowledge to demonstrate safe, competent clinical judgment while innovating nursing practice.

Person-Centered Care 
Demonstrate person-centered care with an individualized, holistic, evidence-based, and just approach while exhibiting compassion, respect, and developmentally appropriate care.

Population Health 
Manage population health by engaging in effective partnerships, advancing equitable population health policy, demonstrating advocacy strategies, and advancing preparedness from public health prevention and disease management to disasters and emergencies.

Scholarship for Nursing Discipline 
Seek answers to health and health care improvement questions through diligent inquiry and analysis; generate, synthesize, translate, and apply nursing knowledge to health care policy and practice; and consistently follow standards of integrity and fairness.

Quality and Safety 
Embrace quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality, and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

Interprofessional Partnerships 
Engage in intentional collaboration, with high regard for interprofessional partnerships, to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes for patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders.

Systems-Based Practice 
Evaluate and lead within systems of healthcare that utilize the nursing process, clinical judgment, and collaborative efforts to provide safe and effective care to all populations.

Informatics and HealthCare Technologies 
Utilize information and communication technologies along with informatics processes to manage and provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision-making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for best practice.

Professionalism 
Form and cultivate a sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.

Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development 
Engage in endeavors and introspection that manifest a devotion to Christ-centered principles and foster individual wholeness, endurance and thriving, continual growth in knowledge and bolster the acquisition of nursing proficiency and exercise influential leadership.

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