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Nursing Licensure Exam Pass Rates

National NCLEX Pass Rates https://www.ncsbn.org/1237.htm

  • 2023: May = 100%
  • 2022: 96%
  • 2021: 94%
  • 2020: 98.46%
  • 2019: 100%
  • 2018: 96.49%
  • 2017: 98%
  • 2016: 97.94%
  • 2015: May = 97.7% / December = 100%
  • 2014: May = 98.6% / December = 100%
  • 2013: 96%
  • 2012: 96% / 100%
  • 2022: 100% ANCC and 96% AANP
  • 2021: 100% (AANP & AANP)
  • 2020: 100% (AANP)
  • 2019: 98-100% (ANCC and AANP)
  • 2018: 100% (ANCC and AANP)
  • 2017: 100% (ANCC and AANP)
  • 2016: 98% AANP and 100% ANCC
  • 2015: 96.5% AANP and 86% (ANCC)
  • 2014: 98% AANP and 80% ANCC
  • 2013: 100%
  • 2012: 100%
  • 2022: 100% (ANCC and AACN)
  • 2021: 100% (ANCC and AACN)
  • 2020: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2019: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2018: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2017: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2016: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2015: 90% (ANCC)
  • 2014: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2013: 100%
  • 2012: 100%
  • 2022: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2021: 100% (ANCC and AACN)
  • 2020: 100% (AACN)
  • 2019: 100% (AACN)
  • 2018: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2017: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2016: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2015: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2014: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2013: 100%
  • 2012: 100%
  • 2022: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2021: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2020: 95% (ANCC)
  • 2019: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2018: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2017: 87.5% (ANCC)
  • 2016: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2015: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2014: 100% (ANCC)
  • 2013: 100% (ANCC)

USI’s BSN program continues to maintain NCLEX pass rates well above the national average of 80%. The high NCLEX pass rate is a distinction that speaks to the quality of the students, the faculty and USI's Nursing Program.

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BSN Program Outcomes

The University of Southern Indiana BSN graduate is prepared to:

  • Apply principles of interpersonal relationships while practicing patient-centered, holistic and culturally congruent care.
  • Integrate critical thinking, best evidence-based practice, clinical expertise, patient/family preferences and values to problem-solve issues related to the healthcare consumer, self, healthcare environment and community.
  • Integrate information, resources and technology to support evidence-based decision-making.
  • Provide safe, competent and effective quality care in diverse environments.
  • Utilize effective communication techniques within interprofessional teams, fostering mutual respect and shared decision-making to achieve quality care.
  • Demonstrate professional values and leadership through utilization of ethical standards of practice.

MSN Program Outcomes

The University of Southern Indiana MSN graduate is prepared to:

  • Synthesize knowledge and concepts from nursing, other sciences, and humanities as a foundation for advanced nursing practice.
  • Integrate critical thinking to provide advanced nursing care, focusing on safety and prevention of medical error in diverse populations.
  • Participate in systematic inquiry and apply current evidence to improve patient outcomes and enhance nursing as a profession.
  • Integrate knowledge of legal, socioeconomic, political, cultural, and ethical forces that affect patient outcomes and health care environments in advanced nursing practice.
  • Function as an advocate, leader, and change agent to plan, implement, and evaluate health care in collaboration with inter-professional teams, consumers, and policy makers.
  • Provide leadership to maintain and promote the professional values of patient-centered care, patient advocacy, professional integrity, accountability, and lifelong learning.
  • Integrate data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
  • Integrate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making.

Post MSN APRN Certificate Program Outcomes

The University of Southern Indiana MSN graduate is prepared to:

  • Synthesize knowledge and concepts from nursing, other sciences, and humanities as a foundation for advanced nursing practice.
  • Integrate critical thinking to provide advanced nursing care, focusing on safety and prevention of medical error in diverse populations.
  • Participate in systematic inquiry and apply current evidence to improve patient outcomes and enhance nursing as a profession.
  • Integrate knowledge of legal, socioeconomic, political, cultural, and ethical forces that affect patient outcomes and health care environments in advanced nursing practice.
  • Function as an advocate, leader, and change agent to plan, implement, and evaluate health care in collaboration with inter-professional teams, consumers, and policy makers.
  • Provide leadership to maintain and promote the professional values of patient-centered care, patient advocacy, professional integrity, accountability, and lifelong learning.
  • Integrate data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
  • Integrate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making.

MSN Specialty Outcomes:

Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

The Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner acquires knowledge and experience to provide direct health care services to late adolescents and adults across the lifespan for the purposes of health promotion, health protection, disease prevention, and management of common acute and chronic illnesses. The Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner, Acute works in a variety of clinical settings that include, but are not limited to, acute care hospitals, long term care facilities, physician offices, urgent care centers, and ambulatory care centers. The population in adult geriatric nurse practitioner practice consists of late adolescents through the elderly. The Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner, Acute focuses on late adolescents and adults across the lifespan experiencing acute and episodic chronic health problems. There are a total of 42 credit hours in the specialty with 705 clinical hours.

The Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner, Acute graduate is prepared to:

1. Synthesize knowledge from nursing theories, the humanities, and evidence-based scientific clinical guidelines to guide assessment of health status of adults across the lifespan.
2. Demonstrate advanced practice clinical decision making, integrating critical thinking, to interpret patient and diagnostic test data and formulate differential diagnoses and a plan of care for adults across the lifespan.
3. Design and implement a mutually agreed upon management plan and therapeutic interventions with adult patients and families across the lifespan.
4. Evaluate and revise the documented management plan based on patient/family findings, problems and expected outcomes of treatment. 
5. Apply adult assessment methodologies and research findings to improve and evaluate the care of adult patients and families across the adult lifespan.
6. Advocate for patients and families to provide cost-effective, culturally competent, ethical, quality care in and across health care settings.
7. Model responsibility for continued professional development, integrity, accountability, competence, and credentialing as an acute care nurse practitioner. 

Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist

  • Provide expert outcome-oriented nursing therapeutics for complex patients to promote health, well-being, and quality of life.
  • Manage the integration and coordination of patient care services across the health care continuum.
  • Design and implement patient and staff educational programs for promotion of positive health care outcomes.
  • Consult and collaborate with members of the health care team to support the delivery of quality patient care.
  • Utilize research methodology and evidence to investigate, promote, and evaluate nursing therapies that produce positive patient care outcomes.
  • Model responsibility for continued professional development, integrity, accountability, competence, and credentialing as a clinical nurse specialist.

Family Nurse Practitioner

  • Synthesize knowledge from nursing theories, the humanities, and evidence-based scientific clinical guidelines to guide assessment of health status for patients of all ages.
  • Demonstrate advanced practice clinical decision making, integrating critical thinking, to interpret patient and diagnostic test data and formulate differential diagnoses and a plan of care for patients and families across the lifespan.
  • Design and implement a mutually agreed upon management plan and therapeutic interventions with patients and families across the lifespan.
  • Evaluate and revise the documented management plan based on patient/family findings, problems and expected outcomes of treatment.
  • Apply family assessment methodologies and research findings to improve and evaluate the care of patients and families across the lifespan.
  • Advocate for patients and families to provide cost-effective, culturally competent, ethical, quality care in and across health care settings.
  • Model responsibility for continued professional development, integrity, accountability, competence and credentialing as a family nurse practitioner.

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

  • Provide expert outcome-oriented nursing therapeutics for patients with mental health problems to promote improved health and enhanced quality of life.
  • Manage, integrate and coordinate patient care services across the mental health care continuum.
  • Develop and provide patient and staff educational services to promote positive patient health care outcomes.
  • Consult and collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary health care team to support delivery of quality patient care.
  • Incorporate best practice evidence to investigate, promote, and evaluate nursing therapies and pharmacotherapy that support evidence for positive patient care outcomes.
  • Advocate for patients and families to provide cost-effective, culturally competent, ethical, quality care in a variety of health care settings.
  • Model responsibility for continued professional development, integrity, accountability, competence, and credentialing as a family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.

Nursing Education Leadership

The Nursing Education Leadership specialty prepares the nurse to be an educator in schools of nursing or healthcare institutions with skills in curriculum development and implementation, budget management, leadership skills, teaching strategies for the classroom and clinical settings and measurement of student and program outcomes. There are a total of 36 credit hours in the specialty.

The Nursing Education Leadership graduate is prepared to:

  • Integrate the roles of faculty scholarship, teaching and service.
  • Formulate learning objectives, learning strategies and activities in relationship to theories of teaching and learning.
  • Facilitate relationships between students and clinical agencies demonstrating an expertise in nursing and the ability to influence change.
  • Advocate for students and develop mutual respect through advising, counseling, understanding diversity, conveying a sense of caring and serving as a preceptor and role model.
  • Integrate into the role of a faculty member participation in institutional committees and leadership to the school, institution and the profession.
  • Disseminate knowledge of teaching expertise through publication and presentation of innovative teaching methods and outcomes of scholarly work.
  • Integrate innovative and creative teaching strategies that consider increasing use of technology in education, changing perspectives on teaching and learning and the needs of a global society.

Healthcare Systems Leadership

The Healthcare Systems Leadership specialty prepares the nurse to assume a leadership role in various health care environments. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of finance, business management, information management, and marketing resources management evaluation into the nursing management and leadership roles. There are a total of 36 credit hours in the specialty.

The Healthcare Systems Leadership graduate is prepared to:

  • Integrate critical thinking skills in complex, multi-dimensional nursing management and leadership situations through the use of economic, finance, marketing and administration theories and principles.
  • Analyze the use of management and leadership principles and quality management skills I n health care organizations.
  • Advance nursing knowledge through research in nursing management, leadership, and health care policy.
  • Incorporate global influences and the use of information and communication technology into the nursing management and leadership role.
  • Integrate legal and ethical standards, professional values, and lifelong learning into the nursing management and leadership role.

DNP Program Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, the DNP graduate will be able to:

  • Integrate nursing science with knowledge from ethics and the biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, and organizational sciences as the basis for the highest level for nursing.
  • Develop and evaluate care delivery approaches that meet current and future needs of populations based upon scientific findings in nursing science, clinical sciences, and organizational, political, and economic sciences.
  • Use analytic methods to appraise existing literature and other evidence to determine and implement the best evidence for practice.
  • Serve as a leader in the development and implementation of institutional, local, state, federal, and international health policy.
  • Advocate for the clients and the nursing profession within government, business, education, and healthcare communities.
  • Collaborate with interprofessional teams to analyze complex practice and organizational issues in leading change and to improve client, population, and system health outcomes.
  • Analyze epidemiological, bio-statistical, environmental, and other scientific data related to individual, aggregate, population, and health.
  • Integrate advanced level of judgment, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, teaching, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care to improve client and health care outcomes.
  • Develop and lead quality improvement initiatives within diverse health care.
  • Develop and disseminate practice-based initiatives that promote client safety and reduction of medical errors.