About Us | Department of Nursing | BYU-Idaho

# About Us

Our vision: changing lives through professional nursing, disciple leadership, and caring.

## Our Mission/Goals

Through the Nursing program, we strive to develop attributes in our students that they will carry into their professional life. These include:

- Care through inspiration and professionalism
- Promote a high regard for quality, safety, and collaboration
- Engage in scholarship within your discipline
- Innovate health practice

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## Program Outcomes

This baccalaureate program prepares the graduate in the following fields:

****Knowledge for Nursing Practice**** 
Develop and continually seek nursing and interdisciplinary knowledge to demonstrate safe, competent clinical judgment while innovating nursing practice.

****Person-Centered Care**** 
Demonstrate person-centered care with an individualized, holistic, evidence-based, and just approach while exhibiting compassion, respect, and developmentally appropriate care.

****Population Health**** 
Manage population health by engaging in effective partnerships, advancing equitable population health policy, demonstrating advocacy strategies, and advancing preparedness from public health prevention and disease management to disasters and emergencies.

****Scholarship for Nursing Discipline**** 
Seek answers to health and health care improvement questions through diligent inquiry and analysis; generate, synthesize, translate, and apply nursing knowledge to health care policy and practice; and consistently follow standards of integrity and fairness.

****Quality and Safety**** 
Embrace quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality, and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

****Interprofessional Partnerships**** 
Engage in intentional collaboration, with high regard for interprofessional partnerships, to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes for patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders.

****Systems-Based Practice**** 
Evaluate and lead within systems of healthcare that utilize the nursing process, clinical judgment, and collaborative efforts to provide safe and effective care to all populations.

****Informatics and HealthCare Technologies**** 
Utilize information and communication technologies along with informatics processes to manage and provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision-making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for best practice.

****Professionalism**** 
Form and cultivate a sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing's characteristics and values.

****Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development**** 
Engage in endeavors and introspection that manifest a devotion to Christ-centered principles and foster individual wholeness, endurance and thriving, continual growth in knowledge and bolster the acquisition of nursing proficiency and exercise influential leadership.

## 2023 NCLEX Pass Rates

100%

Pass rate in

2023

64

Students admitted per semester

95

Applicants considered per semester (avg)

95%

NCLEX Completion 
Rate

## Past NCLEX Pass Rates

94%

pass rate in 2021

89%

Pass rate in 2022

## The Department of Nursing at BYU-Idaho is Accredited and/or Approved by

**The baccalaureate degree program in nursing at BYU-Idaho is accredited by the** Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

Visit the CCNE Website

Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education 
One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530 
Washington, DC 20036 
202-887-6791

Visit the NWCCU Website

NW Commission on Colleges and Universities 
8060 165th Avenue N.E. Suite 100 
Redmond, WA 98052-3981 
1-425-558-4224

Visit Idaho's Nursing Website

State of Idaho Board of Nursing 
State of Idaho Board of Nursing P. O. Box 83720 
Boise, ID. 83720-0061 
1-208-334-3110 Ext. 34