/sitecore/content/Catalogs/Trine-University/Current/Spring-2026-Trine-Course-Catalog/College-of-Health-Professions/Associate-of-Science-in-Nursinghttps://iq3prod1.smartcatalogiq.com:443/en/catalogs/trine-university/current/spring-2026-trine-course-catalog/college-of-health-professions/associate-of-science-in-nursing{66057A6C-F589-4842-AEC4-C8A762F4A27A}/sitecore/content/Catalogs/Trine-University/Current/Spring-2026-Trine-Course-Catalog/College-of-Health-Professions/Associate-of-Science-in-Nursinghttps://iq3prod1.smartcatalogiq.com:443/en/catalogs/trine-university/current/spring-2026-trine-course-catalog/college-of-health-professions/associate-of-science-in-nursing{66057A6C-F589-4842-AEC4-C8A762F4A27A}<p>The ASN program is designed to educate entry-level registered nurses as generalists for practice. Students enrolled in the ASN program will be required to participate in lectures, clinical lab, and clinical experiences within the curriculum.</p> <p> </p> True6565False<p>The Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) Program at Trine University will provide a quality, innovative educational experience that produces entry-level nursing graduates capable of delivering safe, culturally and contextually relevant, evidence-based care in a variety of environments, while also preparing them to positively impact individuals, groups, and communities through scholarship, leadership, and service.</p> 0False<p>Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)<br>By the end of the program, the student will be able to meet the outcomes expected of the Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education Achievement for the entry-level professional nurse. The accomplishment of such will enable graduates to practice within the healthcare systems and assume the roles: provider of care; designer, manager, and coordinator of care; and member of a profession (AACN, 2021):</p><p> </p><p>Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice<br>Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving<br>disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other<br>disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This<br>distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical<br>judgment and innovation in nursing practice.</p><p>Competencies:<br>1.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the discipline of nursing’s distinct perspective and where shared perspectives exist with other disciplines.<br>1.2 Apply theory and research-based knowledge from nursing, the arts, humanities, and other sciences.<br>1.3 Demonstrate clinical judgement founded on a broad knowledge base.</p><p> </p><p>Domain 2: Person‐Centered Care<br>Descriptor: Person‐centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated<br>contexts, including family and/or important others. Person‐centered care is holistic,<br>individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence‐based, and<br>developmentally appropriate. Person‐centered care builds on a scientific body of<br>knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.</p><p>Competencies:<br>2.1 Engage with the individual in establishing a caring relationship.<br>2.2 Communicate effectively with individuals.<br>2.3 Integrate assessment skills in practice.<br>2.4 Diagnose actual or potential health problems and needs.<br>2.5 Develop plans of care.<br>2.6 Demonstrate accountability for care delivery.<br>2.7 Evaluate outcomes of care.<br>2.8 Promote self-care management.<br>2.9 Provide care coordination.<br> <br>Domain 3: Population Health<br>Descriptor: Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non‐traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.</p><p>Competencies:<br>3.1 Manage population health.<br>3.2 Engage in effective partnerships.<br>3.3 Consider the socioeconomical impact of the delivery of health care.<br>3.4 Advance equitable population health policy.<br>3.5 Demonstrate advocacy strategies.<br>3.6 Advance preparedness to protect population health during disasters and public health emergencies.</p><p> </p><p>Domain 4: Scholarship for Nursing Practice<br>Descriptor: The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of<br>nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.</p><p>Competencies:<br>4.1 Advance the scholarship of nursing.<br>4.2 Integrate best evidence into nursing practice.<br>4.3 Promote the ethical conduct of scholarly activities.</p><p> </p><p>Domain 5: Quality and Safety<br>Descriptor: Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and<br>improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice,<br>enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both<br>system effectiveness and individual performance.</p><p>Competencies:<br>a. Apply quality improvement principles in care delivery.<br>b. Contribute to a culture of patient safety.<br>c. Contribute to a culture of provider and work environment safety.<br> <br>Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships<br>Descriptor: Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members,<br>patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the<br>healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.</p><p>Competencies:<br>6.1 Communicate in a manner that facilitates a partnership approach to quality care delivery.<br>6.2 Perform effectively inn different team roles, using principles and values of team dynamics.<br>6.3 Use knowledge of nursing and other professions to address healthcare needs.<br>6.4 Work with other professions to maintain a climate of mutual learning, respect, and shared values.</p><p> </p><p>Domain 7: Systems‐Based Practice<br>Descriptor: Responding to and leading within complex systems of health<br>care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe,<br>quality, equitable care to diverse populations.</p><p>Competencies:<br>7.1 Apply knowledge of systems to work effectively across the continuum of care.<br>7.2 Incorporate consideration of cost-effectiveness of care.<br>7.3 Optimize system effectiveness through application of innovation and evidence-based practice.</p><p> </p><p>Domain 8: Information and Healthcare Technologies<br>Descriptor: Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are<br>used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and<br>support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.</p><p>Competencies:<br>8.1 Describe the various information and communication technology tools used in the care of patients, communities, and populations.<br>8.2 Use information and communication technology to gather data, create information and generate knowledge.<br>8.3 Use information and communication technologies and informatics processes to deliver safe nursing care to diverse populations in a variety of settings.<br>8.4 Use information and communication technology to support documentation of care and communication among providers, patients, at all system levels.<br>8.5 Use information and communication technologies in accordance with ethical, legal, professional, and regulatory standards, and workplace policies in the delivery of care.</p><p> </p><p>Domain 9: Professionalism<br>Descriptor: Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional nursing identity,<br>accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects<br>nursing’s characteristics and values.</p><p>Competencies:<br>9.1 Demonstrate an ethical comportment in one’s practice reflective of nursing’s mission to society.<br>9.2 Employ participatory approach to nursing care.<br>9.3 Demonstrate accountability to the individual, society, and the profession.<br>9.4 Comply with relevant laws, policies, and regulations.<br>9.5 Demonstrate the professional identity of nursing.<br>9.6 Integrate cultural humility and ethical practice as core to one’s professional identity.</p><p> </p><p>Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development<br>Descriptor: Participation in activities and self‐reflection that foster personal health,<br>resilience, and well‐being, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing<br>expertise and assertion of leadership.</p><p>Competencies:<br>10.1 Demonstrate a commitment to personal health and well-being.<br>10.2 Demonstrate a spirit of inquiry that fosters flexibility and professional maturity.<br>10.3 Develop capacity for leadership.</p><p> </p><p>American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], (2021). 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