Assessing Program Outcomes

As a committee, your dean has challenged you to demonstrate the extent to which your students are meeting the following program Outcomes.

a. provide holistic care based on knowledge from the arts and sciences.

b. Collaborate with other healthcare members to provide evidence-based nursing care.

c. Communicate effectively in all modalities.

d. Use critical thinking in clinical situations.

e. Consider legal and ethical aspects of nursing care.

Select one outcome, and recommend at least two ways faculty could assess whether students have met those outcomes. Discuss an advantage and a disadvantage of each of these assessment methods.