Department of Nursing Educational Outcomes

The Oglala Lakota College Department of Nursing prepares the Associate Degree Nursing graduate who will:

WOWHOLA - Respect
 

  1. Evaluate the role of culture in shaping the clients values, beliefs, and lifestyles, and learning styles.
  2. Maintain effective communication with the client, family members and members of the health team, recognizing cultural influences on communication styles.
WOKSAPE - Wisdom
 
  1. Integrate knowledge from the biophysical and social sciences and the humanities into the knowledge base for safe nursing practice.
  2. Evaluate the role of Lakota value systems in promoting, maintaining, and restoring balance/wholeness at all developmental levels.
  3. Provide health information and skills required to facilitate client achievement of function/balance.


WACANTOGNAKA - Generosity
 

  1. Utlize the nursing process as the means to provide care to clients.
  2. Perform the technical nursing care skills competently for individuals with common health imbalances in structured health settings.
  3. Provide nursing care to groups of clients in well-defined settings under designated supervision.
WOOHITIKA - Courage
 
  1. Practice and advance within the professional, legal and ethical framework of nursing.
  2. Assume continued responsibility and accountability for one's own personal/professional growth.

Last Updated August 14, 2008
Published by Michelle L. Bruns
Maintained by Michelle L. Bruns
Oglala Lakota College