Source (2025): https://calstatela.curriculog.com/proposal:17573/form
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
PLO 1- The student will integrate, translate, and apply established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and way of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences.
PLO 2- The student will utilize person-centered care, which involves focusing on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and important others.
PLO-3 The student will incorporate population health strategies in the provision of nursing care across the continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations.
PLO 4 - The student will generate, synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate nursing knowledge to improve health and transform care.
PLO 5- The student will employ established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science, to enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
PLO 6- The student will collaborate across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
PLO 7- The student will proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care with complex systems of healthcare.
PLO 8- the student will utilize informatic processes and technology to manage and improve the deliver of safe, high-quality, and efficient health care services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
PLO 9- The student will form and cultivate a sustainable professional identify, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment, that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
PLO 10- The student will participate in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being; contribute to lifelong learning; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.
Fit with the Institutional Mission or Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO)
1. Knowledge: Mastery of content and processes of inquiry
California State University, Los Angeles graduates have a strong knowledge base in their academic major and can use powerful processes of inquiry in a range of disciplines. They engage contemporary and enduring questions with an understanding of the complexities of human cultures and the physical and natural world and are ready to put their knowledge into action to address contemporary issues.
2. Proficiency: Intellectual skills
California State University, Los Angeles graduates are equipped to actively participate in democratic society. They are critical thinkers who make use of quantitative and qualitative reasoning. They have the ability to find, use, evaluate and process information in order to engage in complex decision-making. They read critically, speak and write clearly and thoughtfully and communicate effectively.
3. Place and Community: Urban and global mission
California State University, Los Angelesgraduates are engaged individuals who have contributed to the multi-lingual and multiethnic communities that constitute Los Angeles and the world of the future. They are aware of how their actions impact society and the environment, and they strive to make socially responsible decisions. They are community builders sensitive to the needs of diverse individuals and groups and committed to renewing the communities in which they live.
4. Transformation: Integrative learning
California State University, Los Angeles graduates integrate academic learning with life. They engage in community, professional, creative, research and scholarly projects that lead to changes in their sense of self and understanding of their worlds. Graduates integrate their knowledge, skills and experience to address complex and contemporary issues and act ethically as leaders for the 21st century.
The Patricia A. Chin School of Nursing’s Program Learning Outcomes were adopted from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and are aligned with the University’s Program Learning Outcomes. The crosswalk of the information demonstrates how each institutional expectation is reinforced by multiple program outcomes.
ILO 1: Knowledge - Mastery of content and processes of inquiry
Graduates have strong disciplinary knowledge and engage in inquiry across fields.
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PLO 1 - Integrate, translate, and apply nursing and interdisciplinary knowledge.
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PLO 3 - Incorporate population health strategies (broad inquiry across populations).
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PLO 4 - Generate, synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate nursing knowledge.
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PLO 8 - Utilize informatic processes and technology for evidence-based care.
ILO 2: Proficiency - Intellectual skills
Graduates think critically, reason quantitatively/qualitatively, and communicate effectively.
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PLO 2 - Utilize person-centered care (critical thinking applied to individuals in context).
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PLO 5 - Employ principles of safety and improvement science (critical reasoning, systems thinking).
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PLO 7 - Coordinate resources in complex systems (decision-making and problem-solving).
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PLO 8 - Use informatics/technology (data reasoning, information literacy).
ILO 3: Place and Community - Urban and global mission
Graduates contribute to diverse communities, act responsibly, and build inclusive environments.
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PLO 2 - Utilize person-centered care (considering family, community, culture).
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PLO 3 - Incorporate population health strategies (local/global health impact).
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PLO 6 - Collaborate across professions, families, communities, stakeholders.
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PLO 7 - Coordinate equitable care in complex systems.
ILO 4: Transformation - Integrative learning
Graduates integrate learning with life, engage ethically, and act as leaders.
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PLO 4 - Transform care through knowledge generation and dissemination.
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PLO 6 - Collaborate to optimize outcomes (integrated, team-based learning).
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PLO 9 - Form a sustainable professional identity (integration of values and leadership).
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PLO 10 - Engage in self-reflection, resilience, lifelong learning, and leadership development.
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