The Saint Joseph’s School of Nursing at Mount Saint Vincent carries out its mission with an awareness of the diversity and needs of our community of interest, offering students a sense of responsibility, critical thinking, open inquiry, and self-respect, while acknowledging the need for lifelong learning.

Through the University’s partnership with Saint Joseph’s Medical Center, our students can now further expand their nursing experience, education, and career opportunities, advancing our joint missions to provide world-class care across the Bronx, Westchester, and beyond.

Graduates become professional nurses and healthcare leaders, using critical thinking skills to address the complex health-related problems of a diverse population across the lifespan. With small classes and a close proximity to the resources and opportunities of New York City, students enjoy personalized attention in addition to an assigned advisor. Many online resources, including online testing and experiential learning, are another feature of this highly sought-after program. By assuming responsibility for their own professional development, students use what they have learned to plan competent, effective, and evidence-based nursing care that contributes to safe and high quality outcomes.

Mount Saint Vincent offers nursing students the opportunity to explore programs of study at various locations. Our Bronx location is on the main campus of the University of Mount Saint Vincent, located at 6301 Riverdale Avenue, Riverdale, New York 10471. Our Queens locations are 37-02 Queens Boulevard, Long Island City, New York 11101 and 31-00 47th Avenue, Suite 2120D, Long Island City, NY 11101. Our Brooklyn location is 55 Washington Street, Suite 313, Brooklyn, New York 11201.

The baccalaureate degree in nursing/master’s degree in nursing at the University of Mount Saint Vincent is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Educa­tion (CCNE), 655 K Street NW, Suite 750, Washington, D.C., 20001 | (202) 887-6791.

Departmental Learning Outcomes | Undergraduate (Traditional)/Accelerated Nursing

Students will:

1. Integrate knowledge from the liberal arts and sciences into culturally sensitive professional nursing practice.
2. Use leadership concepts to plan, implement, delegate, supervise, and evaluate outcomes of patient care.
3. Integrate evidence for multiple ways of knowing when planning, implementing, and evaluating outcomes of care.
4. Ethically use information and communication technology to obtain nursing practice data and to document and evaluate patient outcomes.
5. Advocate for healthcare policies that address local and global health issues influencing healthcare and practice.
6. Provide and or plan evidenced based nursing care in a variety of settings through collaboration with patients and other healthcare providers.
7. Facilitate health promoting behaviors in patients throughout the life span in a variety of settings.
8. Assume responsibility for professional development.
9. Use the nursing process and/or plan competent, effective, and evidenced nursing care that contributes to safe and high-quality outcomes.

Departmental Learning Outcomes | Graduate Nursing

Students will:

1. Integrate, translate, and apply established and evolving scientific knowledge from diverse sources as the basis for ethical clinical judgement, innovation, and diagnostic reasoning.
2. Support the use of evidence-based best practices to design, manage, and evaluate comprehensive person-centered care that is within the regulatory and educational scope of practice. Fundamental to person-centered care is respect for diversity, differences, preferences, values, needs, resources, and determinants of health unique to the individual.
3. Partner across the care continuum with public health, healthcare systems, community, academic community, governmental, and other entities to integrate foundational advanced practice Nurse Practitioner knowledge into culturally competent practices to increase health promotion and disease prevention strategies that effects the care of populations using a caring and holistic approach.
4. Generate, appraise, synthesize, translate, integrate, and disseminate knowledge to improve person-centered health and systems of care.
5. Utilize knowledge and principles of translational and scientific methodologies to improve quality and safety for providers, patients, populations, and systems of care.
6. Collaborate with the interprofessional team to provide care through meaningful communication and active participation as a partnership in providing person-centered and population-centered care.
7. Demonstrate organizational and systems leadership to improve healthcare outcomes.
8. Envision, appraise, and utilize informatics and healthcare technologies to deliver care.
9. Demonstrate the attributes and perspectives of the advanced practice Nurse Practitioner in the nursing profession and adherence to ethical principles while functioning as a committed equal partner of the interprofessional healthcare team.
10. Participate in professional and personal growth activities that foster a spirit of inquiry to develop a sustainable progression toward professional and interpersonal maturity, improved resilience, and robust leadership capacity.

Contact

(718) 405-3267
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