Division Outcomes
The General Education Core curriculum at MidAmerica is designed to help students develop in seven specific areas: the seven outcomes of General Education. These outcomes are Aesthetic Literacy, Critical Thinking, Effective Communication, Scientific Literacy, Self Understanding, Social Responsibility, and Spiritual Development. Each General Education core course at MidAmerica speaks to one or more of these outcomes, because the faculty believe these outcomes are basic to a well balanced liberal arts education.
Nursing faculty have adopted these same seven General Education outcomes as the outcomes of the Division of Nursing. They embody what local healthcare employers and MidAmerica graduates identified as the qualities they desire in new graduate nurses. Therefore, the assignments and experiences in MNU's nursing program are designed to help students extend their concept of each of these general outcomes into the realm of nursing for the purpose to become well-rounded, safe, caring, knowledgeable, and competent practitioners of nursing.
The definitions of these nursing outcomes are as follows:
A nurse with Aesthetic Literacy demonstrates a personalized expression of nursing as an art and uses caring and creativity in providing nursing care.
A Critical Thinking nurse applies current research, theory, professional standards, and ethical guidelines/codes to solve patient, family, community, and/or world health concerns.
A nurse who demonstrates Effective Communication interacts clearly with individuals and/or groups for the purpose of sharing information, ideas, and/or emotions.
The nurse who evidences Scientific Literacy has a grasp of nursing's body of knowledge and the research processes that promotes development of that knowledge.
The nurse who has Self Understanding utilizes physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health promotion practices for self, and thus provides a basis of knowledge that will enhance the provision of holistic care to others.
The nurse who has Social Responsibility demonstrates personal involvement in nursing's role and responsibilities to people and society.
The nurse who shows Spiritual Development cultivates a Christian approach to his/her life and to professional nursing practice that permeates the attainment of divisional outcomes.
