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Nursing Licensure Exam Pass Rates

National NCLEX Pass RatesÌý

  • 2023: May = 100%
  • 2022: 96%
  • 2021: 94%
  • 2020: 98.46%
  • 2019: 100%
  • 2018: 96.49%
  • 2017: 98%
  • 2016: 97.94%
  • 2015: May = 97.7% / December = 100%
  • 2014: May = 98.6% / December = 100%
  • 2013: 96%
  • 2012: 96% / 100%
  • 2023: 94% (AANP)
  • 2022: 100% ANCC and 96% AANP
  • 2021: 100% (AANP & AANP)
  • 2020: 100% (AANP)
  • 2019: 98-100% (ANCC and AANP)
  • 2018: 100% (ANCC and AANP)
  • 2017: 100% (ANCC and AANP)
  • 2016: 98% AANP and 100% ANCC
  • 2015: 96.5% AANP and 86% (ANCC)
  • 2014: 98% AANP and 80% ANCC
  • 2013: 100%
  • 2012: 100%
  • 2023: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2022: 100% (ANCC and AACN)
  • 2021: 100% (ANCC and AACN)
  • 2020: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2019: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2018: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2017: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2016: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2015: 90% (ANCC)
  • 2014: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2013: 100%
  • 2012: 100%
  • 2023: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2022: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2021: 100% (ANCC and AACN)
  • 2020: 100% (AACN)
  • 2019: 100% (AACN)
  • 2018: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2017: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2016: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2015: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2014: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2013: 100%
  • 2012: 100%
  • 2023: 100% (ANCC)Ìý
  • 2022: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2021: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2020: 95% (ANCC)
  • 2019: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2018: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2017: 87.5% (ANCC)
  • 2016: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2015: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2014: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2013: 100% (ANCC)

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±ÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥â€™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 °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±ÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥'s Nursing Program.

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BSN Program Outcomes

The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±ÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ 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 °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±ÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ 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

Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

  • Synthesize knowledge from nursing theories, the humanities, and evidence-based scientific clinical guidelines to guide assessment of health status of adults across the lifespan.
  • Demonstrate advanced practice clinical decision making, integrating critical thinking, to interpret patient and diagnostic test data and formulate differential diagnoses and a plan of care for adults across the lifespan.
  • Design and implement a mutually agreed upon management plan and therapeutic interventions with adult patients and families across the lifespan.
  • Evaluate and revise the documented management plan based on patient/family findings, problems and expected outcomes of treatment.
  • Apply adult assessment methodologies and research findings to improve and evaluate the care of adult patients and families across the adult lifespan.
  • Advocate for patients and families to provide cost-effective, culturally competent, ethical, quality care in and across health care settings.
  • Model responsibility for continued professional development, integrity, accountability, competence, and credentialing as an acute care nurse practitioner. 

Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist

  • Provide expert outcome-oriented nursing therapeutics for complex patients to promote health, well-being, and quality of life.
  • Manage the integration and coordination of patient care services across the health care continuum.
  • Design and implement patient and staff educational programs for promotion of positive health care outcomes.
  • Consult and collaborate with members of the healthcare team to support the delivery of quality patient care.
  • Utilize research methodology and evidence to investigate, promote, and evaluate nursing therapies that produce positive patient care outcomes.
  • Model responsibility for continued professional development, integrity, accountability, competence, and credentialing as a clinical nurse specialist.

Family Nurse Practitioner

  • Synthesize knowledge from nursing theories, the humanities, and evidence-based scientific clinical guidelines to guide assessment of health status for patients of all ages.
  • Demonstrate advanced practice clinical decision making, integrating critical thinking, to interpret patient and diagnostic test data and formulate differential diagnoses and a plan of care for patients and families across the lifespan.
  • Design and implement a mutually agreed upon management plan and therapeutic interventions with patients and families across the lifespan.
  • Evaluate and revise the documented management plan based on patient/family findings, problems and expected outcomes of treatment.
  • Apply family assessment methodologies and research findings to improve and evaluate the care of patients and families across the lifespan.
  • Advocate for patients and families to provide cost-effective, culturally competent, ethical, quality care in and across health care settings.
  • Model responsibility for continued professional development, integrity, accountability, competence and credentialing as a family nurse practitioner.

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

  • Provide expert outcome-oriented nursing therapeutics for patients with mental health problems to promote improved health and enhanced quality of life.
  • Manage, integrate and coordinate patient care services across the mental health care continuum.
  • Develop and provide patient and staff educational services to promote positive patient health care outcomes.
  • Consult and collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary health care team to support delivery of quality patient care.
  • Incorporate best practice evidence to investigate, promote, and evaluate nursing therapies and pharmacotherapy that support evidence for positive patient care outcomes.
  • Advocate for patients and families to provide cost-effective, culturally competent, ethical, quality care in a variety of health care settings.
  • Model responsibility for continued professional development, integrity, accountability, competence, and credentialing as a family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.

Nursing Education Leadership

  • Integrate the roles of faculty scholarship, teaching and service.
  • Formulate learning objectives, learning strategies and activities in relationship to theories of teaching and learning.
  • Facilitate relationships between students and clinical agencies demonstrating an expertise in nursing and the ability to influence change.
  • Advocate for students and develop mutual respect through advising, counseling, understanding diversity, conveying a sense of caring and serving as a preceptor and role model.
  • Integrate into the role of a faculty member participation in institutional committees and leadership to the school, institution and the profession.
  • Disseminate knowledge of teaching expertise through publication and presentation of innovative teaching methods and outcomes of scholarly work.
  • Integrate innovative and creative teaching strategies that consider increasing use of technology in education, changing perspectives on teaching and learning and the needs of a global society.

Healthcare Systems Leadership

  • Integrate critical thinking skills in complex, multi-dimensional nursing management and leadership situations through the use of economic, finance, marketing and administration theories and principles.
  • Analyze the use of management and leadership principles and quality management skills I n health care organizations.
  • Advance nursing knowledge through research in nursing management, leadership, and health care policy.
  • Incorporate global influences and the use of information and communication technology into the nursing management and leadership role.
  • Integrate legal and ethical standards, professional values, and lifelong learning into the nursing management and leadership role.