| Student Outcomes
Health care organizations promote standards of practice and access
to quality care through employment of graduates of health professions
educational programs that meet professional accreditation standards
and essentials. Theses standards and essentials, therefore, are
fundamental to the development and evaluation of graduate and College
outcomes. The College of Health Professions (CHP), Florida Gulf
Coast University (FGCU), adheres to these standards and essentials
and surpasses them through the implementation of curricula that
emphasize a student-focused, client-centered interdisciplinary team
approach among health professions students and faculty. CHP in recognition
of its mission, the dynamic health care system, the community, and
the clients it serves, instills a set of core student outcomes that
hallmark its graduates. The graduates demonstrate discipline-specific,
and interdisciplinary competencies that exemplify excellent practitioners
who function efficiently as integral members of the health care
team, members of the health care industry, and society as a whole.
All students within the College of Health Professions will exhibit
growth toward the goals; hence, graduates will demonstrate:
- An understanding of their professional roles within the context
of the US health care delivery system; be cognizant of and respect
other cultures and their beliefs and customs regarding health
care; and serve as change agents for improvement of the health
care delivery system.
- Compassionate client-centered and client-directed health care
individually and as a team member, with an understanding of the
domain of knowledge and practice roles of the chosen profession,
and the interrelatedness of knowledge and practices across other
health care disciplines.
- Effective communication with proficiency in listening, oral
and written English; information and communication technology;
attentiveness to synergy between self, environment and culture,
and with respect for others.
- Critical thinking skills through deductive, reflective, and
inferential reasoning to address situations, solve problems, apply
knowledge and utilize information in professional practice and
life in general.
- An acceptance of and responsibility for ethical decision making
with an understanding of the interrelatedness of ethics, the law,
and perspectives of the diverse communities.
- Commitment to professional and personal development by assuming
responsibility for lifelong learning.
- Civic responsibility through community and university involvement,
and participation and leadership in professional activities.
- Insights into the arts, sciences and humanities in professional
practice and personal life.
- Technological literacy by effective, ethical, and creative use,
management, and application of informatics and technology in the
delivery of compassionate health care.
- The ability to analyze, critique, select, communicate and apply
research principles and findings to professional practice.
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