CDU-CN Program Outcomes of the
BSN Curriculum 5) Enhance the learners' capacity to administer
MODULE 1M: NCM 1OO
CDU-CN VISION
• A confirmed, credible, and consistent
proponent of timeless nursing values,
committed to professional progression, attuned
and responsive to local and global challenges.
CDU-CN MISSION
• Guided by the motto: Primum Homo Esto: Let
Him First be a Man, the College of Nursing
binds itself to graduate caring professional
nurses, cognizant of their commitments and
accountabilities to God and the people they
serve, in the pursuit of health and healthful
living in any setting in answer to our belief that,
Nursing Is Where People Are
CDU-CN OBJECTIVES
1) Provide excellent nursing education through
an enhanced curriculum responsive to the
constant dynamics of the profession in the
country and abroad
2) Educate future nurses who are motivated,
dedicated and inspired to practice their
profession with utmost integrity, respect for
human dignity and a compassionate heart to
serve diverse clients across the lifespan in
various settings
3) Pursue an effective faculty development
program committed to support the faculty in
their personal and professional advancements
so as to generate competent and well-rounded
nurses
4) Develop critical thinking, effective
communication techniques and interpersonal
skills utilizing the nursing process in performing
any nursing function in the health-illness,
continuum
safe, appropriate, holistic, "caring care"
independently or in collaboration with others
guided by scientific, ethico-moral, legal
principles inspired by the CDU-CN values
6) Contribute to the advancement of health in
general and nursing in particular through varied
research undertakings
7) Inspire learners to preserve and promote the
Filipino heritage with openness and sensitivity
to individual and cultural uniqueness
CDU-CN PEOs (Program Educational Objectives)
1. Competent and Compassionate Nurse
clinicians capable of providing safe, effective
and holistic "caring care" to different clients
across the lifespan in various settings
2. Empowered Nurse Researchers contributing
to the advancement of knowledge and utilizes
evidenced-based practice to enhance nursing
education and practice
3. Organized and Inspiring Nurse Leaders
managing health and health-related teams,
programs and services
CDU-CN CORE VALUES AND
GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES
C – Compassion & Courtesy
• Attributes:
1. Holistic Caring Care
- graduate will accept, understand and respect
the client’s strengths and limitations in the
process of care.
2. Good Manners
- graduate will show good manners in dealing
with clients, peers, and superiors
 11. Effective Communicator
D – Dedication & Discipline - graduate will communicate effectively and
therapeutically among diverse clients across the
• Attributes: lifespan.
3. Lifelong Learner
- graduate will pursue continuing education for
personal and professional development 12. Team Collaborator
- graduate will involve in discussions and
4. Socially Involve activities that fosters collaboration with and
- graduate will participate in socio-civic-spiritual among professionals in varied disciplines.
activities to enhance the community through
one’s profession N – Neatness

5. Research Productive • Attributes:

- graduate will participate in the advancement of 13. Clean
knowledge through various research endeavors - graduate will present oneself with good
grooming, composed and maintains neatness in
U - Uprightness work process and output.

• Attributes:
6. Ethically Responsible CDU-CN BSN 14 PROGRAM
- graduate will practice the profession OUTCOMES AND PERFORMANCE
conforming to social and professional ethics, INDICATORS
morals, and values
1. CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME 1:
C – Competence & Commitment Apply knowledge of physical, social, natural and
health science and humanities in the practice of
• Attributes: nursing.
7. Professionally Competent
- graduate will show professional competence in • Performance Indicators
the delivery of nursing care practice - Integrates principles and concepts of human
behavior in managing clients and teams.
8. Global Mindset - Distinguishes the different concepts used in
- graduate will adopt universal innovations nursing management.
attuned to the changing demands of time.

9. Technically Experienced 2. CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME 2:

- graduate will utilize various technologies in
nursing practice.
10. Critical Thinker
- graduate will apply critical analysis and
decision-making skills to in various learning
opportunities
Provide safe, appropriate, and holistic care to
individuals, families, population, group and
community utilizing nursing process
• Performance Indicators
- Implements strategies/interventions to ensure
healthy population(s) in the school and work
settings.
- Implements participatory and empowerment
strategies for community competence to identify
and collaborate effectively in addressing needs
and problems related with health resource
availability, access or use, environment
protection, safety and security.
- Implements interventions guided by
prescribed context of specific health
programs/services.
- Determines the health education planning
models appropriate to target clientele / learning
outcomes and outcomes.
- Evaluates process / expected outcomes of
nurse-client working relationship.
- Documents nursing care services rendered
and processes/outcomes of the nurse client
working relationship.
3. CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME 3:
Apply guidelines and principles of evidence-
based practice in the delivery of care.
• Performance Indicators
- Provides appropriate evidence- based nursing
care using a participatory approach based on:
a. clinical practice,
b. client and staff safety,
c. customer care standards,
d. nursing management and leadership.
4. CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME 4:
Practice nursing in accordance with existing
laws, legal, ethical-moral principles.
• Performance Indicators
- Adheres to ethico-legal considerations when
providing safe, quality and professional nursing
care.
- Applies ethical reasoning and decision-
making process to address situations of ethical
distress and moral dilemma.
- Adheres to established norms of conduct
based on the Philippine Nursing Law and other
legal, regulatory and institutional requirements
relevant to safe nursing practice.
- Protects client’s rights based on clients’ and
nurses’ rights.
- Implements strategies / policies related to
informed consent as it applies in multiple
contexts.
5. CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME 5:
Communicate effectively in speaking, writing
and presenting using culturally appropriate
language.
• Performance Indicators
- Establishes rapport with client and/or support
system ensuring adequate information about
each other as partners in a working relationship.
- Addresses with respect, trust and concern for
safety, team needs, issues, or problems related
with psychosocial adaptation using appropriate
communication / interpersonal
strategies/techniques.
- Communicates both in oral and written form,
the results of the quality improvement project in
partnership with the quality improvement team /
quality assurance / nursing audit team.
6. CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME 6:
Report and document up-to-date client care
accurately and comprehensively.
• Performance Indicators
- Documents nursing care services rendered
and processes/outcomes of the nurse-client and
nurse-other health professionals working
relationship.
- Ensures completeness, integrity, safety and
accessibility and security of information.
- Adheres to protocol and principles of
confidentiality in safekeeping and releasing of
records and other information.
- Implements system of informatics to support
the delivery of health care.
7. CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME 7:
Work effectively in collaboration with inter-intra
and multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams.
• Performance Indicators
Ensures intra-agency, inter-agency,
multidisciplinary and sectoral collaboration in
the delivery of health care.
- Implements strategies/approaches to
enhance/support the capability of the client and
care providers to participate in decision making
by the inter-professional team.
- Maintains a harmonious and collegial
relationship among members of the health team
for effective, efficient and safe client care.
- Coordinates the tasks/functions of the nursing
personnel (midwife, BHW and utility workers).
- Collaborates with other members of the health
team in the implementation of programs and
services.
- Applies principles of partnership and
collaboration to improve delivery of health
services.
- Collaborates with GOs, NGOs and other
socio-civic agencies to improve health care
services, support environment protection
policies and strategies, and safety and security
mechanisms in the community.
- Participates as a member of a quality team in
implementing the appropriate quality
improvement process on identified improvement
opportunities.
8. CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME 8:
Practice beginning management and leadership
skills in the delivery of client care.
• Performance Indicators
- Discerns the qualities of a good leader
- Critiques the leadership theories as applied in
nursing & health setting.
- Develops a staffing schedule for a nursing
team.
- Employs strategies to improve/ promote
motivation of the health team.
- Manages client load to ensure health program
/ service coverage.
- Utilizes appropriate and efficient methods /
strategies / tools to manage multiple nursing
interventions for clients with co- morbidities,
complex and rapidly changing health status with
consultation as needed.
- Coordinates care by organizing and
prioritizing use of human, material, financial and
other resources to achieve expected health
outcomes.
- Creates a safe environment of care through
the use of quality assurance, continuous quality
improvement and risk management strategies.
- Participates in the development of policies
and standards regarding safe nursing practice.
- Organizes own workload demonstrating time
management skills for meeting responsibilities
and achieving outcomes.
- Applies leadership and management
principles in providing direction to manage a
community/village-based facility.
- Uses appropriate strategies/approaches to
plan community health programs and nursing
service.
- Ensure adequate resources (e.g. human,
material) to effectively implement
programs/services based on requirements, ratio
and standards.
- Mobilizes resources for effective program
implementation/service delivery.
- Supervises the implementation of the nursing
component of the health services/program.
- Ensures that all nursing personnel adhere to
standards of safety, bioethical principles and
evidence- based nursing practice.
- Evaluates specific components of health
programs and nursing services based on
parameters/criteria.
- Applies leadership and management
principles to ensure a complete, accurate and
up-to-date documentation of activities and
outcomes of managing a community/village-
based facility, component of a health program
and/or nursing service.
- Maintain a positive practice environment.
- Demonstrates accountability for safe nursing
practice.
- Applies principles of supervision for effective
and efficient delivery of health programs and
services.
- Assesses supervisory needs of the nursing
support staff.
- Participates in the planning and
implementation of staff development activities to
enhance performance of nursing support staff.
- Monitors the performance of the nursing
support staff.
- Evaluates performance of nursing support staff
using a standard evaluation tool.
- Participates in the improving policies and
standards of nursing practice.
- Disseminates policies, regulations, circulars
and programs among nurses and nursing
support staff.
- Participates in developing policies and
procedures relevant to human resource
management.
- Determines resources available for
networking, linkage building and referral
necessary for improving delivery of health
services.
9. CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME 9:
Conduct research with an experienced
researcher.
• Performance Indicators
- Prepares data collection and analysis plan as
a member of the quality improvement/quality
assurance/nursing audit team.
- Conducts collection and analysis of data with
the team members based on the agreed plan.
- Implements with the team the developed
action plan for the identified variance to improve
the system or process.
10.CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME
10:
Engage in life-long learning with a passion to
keep current with national and global
developments in general and nursing and health
development in particular.
• Performance Indicators
- Develops a personal philosophy and career
goals as a professional nurse.
- Demonstrates accountability and responsibility 13.CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME
on safe nursing practice. 13:
Adopt the nursing core values in the practice of
- Develops a professional nursing portfolio. the profession

- Assumes responsibility in lifelong learning, • Performance Indicators

own personal development and maintenance of - Manifests caring as a core of nursing including
competence. the love of God and people.

- Demonstrates continued competence and 14.CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME

professional growth. 14:
Apply entrepreneurial skills in the delivery of
- Engages in advocacy activities to influence nursing care.
health and social care service policies and
access to services. • Performance Indicators
Applies strategic entrepreneurial interventions
- Models professional behavior. to address management concerns on any
health care setting.
- Engages in advocacy activities to deal with
health-related concerns
and adopts policies that foster the growth and
development of the nursing profession.

11.CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME

11:
Demonstrates responsible citizenship and pride
of being Filipino.

• Performance Indicators
- Accepts the responsibility in paying relevant
taxes in the practice of the profession.
- Customizes nursing interventions based on
Philippine culture and values.
- Projects the good image of a Filipino nurse.

12.CDU-CN PROGRAM OUTCOME

12:
Apply techno-intelligent care systems and
processes in health care delivery.

• Performance Indicators
- Uses appropriate technology to perform safe
and efficient nursing activities.