Your program curriculum is designed to ensure graduates acquire the essential skills, knowledge, and attitudes appropriate and relevant to both the needs of students and employers.

Program Vocational Learning Outcomes

Program vocational learning outcomes describe what graduates of the program have demonstrated they can do with the knowledge and skills they have achieved during their studies. The outcomes are closely tied to the needs of the workplace. Through assessment (e.g., assignments and tests), students verify their ability to reliably perform these outcomes before graduating.

The program vocational learning outcomes for this program are

The student will reliably demonstrate the ability to:

Identifies how and where to access resources and uses information and research to inform and guide perioperative nursing clinical practice

Accepts responsibility for maintaining competency in concepts, principles and nursing interventions and recognizes limitations of practice within perioperative nursing based on specialty nursing skills, circulating and scrub nurse roles

Uses theory, standards, and evidence-based knowledge to systematically address problems, issues and legal and ethical dilemmas

Provides and advocates for the best patient care based on evidence and best practices combined with developed clinical decision-making skills

Uses a wide variety of communication, documentation and interpersonal skills with multidisciplinary team members in sharing information, knowledge and respect to promote the best possible outcomes for patients

Provide culturally sensitive care to a multifaceted patient population

Shows organizational and time managing skills while managing resources in promoting patient care with optimal outcomes in the perioperative setting

Upon successful completion of the program, students will have attained the following characteristics of a Perioperative RN:

• Knowledge
• Respect
• Clinical decision making
• Communication skills
• Team work skills
• Accountability and responsibility
• Organizational skills
• Teaching and leadership ability

Upon successful completion, students will demonstrate the ability to:

1. Practice professionally: Legal & Professional
2. Provide physical patient care in the circulating and scrub RN role
3. Provide supportive care to patient & family designates
4. Provide supportive care to the health care team
5. Promote a safe environment
6. Respond to urgent/emergency situations
7. Manage resources

Note: The learning outcomes have been numbered as a point of reference; numbering does not imply prioritization, sequencing, nor weighting of significance.

This program supports the students’ ability to:         

• Communicate clearly, concisely and correctly in the written, spoken and visual form that fulfills the purpose and meets the needs of the audience. Respond to written, spoken, or visual messages in a manner that ensures effective communication.
• Execute mathematical operations accurately.
• Apply a systematic approach to solve problems.
• Use a variety of thinking skills to anticipate and solve problems.
• Locate, select, organize and document information using appropriate technology and information systems.
• Analyze, evaluate, and apply relevant information from a variety of sources.
• Show respect for the diverse opinions, values, belief systems, and contributions of others.
• Interact with others in groups or teams in ways that contribute to effective working relationships and the achievement of goals.
• Manage the use of time and other resources to complete projects.
• Take responsibility for one’s own actions, decisions, and consequences.

Essential Employability Skills Outcomes

Essential Employable Skills (EES) are skills that, regardless of a student’s program or discipline, are critical for success in the workplace, in day-to-day living, and for lifelong learning. Graduates will reliably demonstrate abilities in six skill categories:

The student will reliably demonstrate the ability to:

1. Communicate clearly, concisely and correctly in the written, spoken, and visual form that fulfills the
purpose and meets the needs of the audience.

2. Respond to written, spoken, or visual messages in a manner that ensures effective
communication.

4. Apply a systematic approach to solve problems.

5. Use a variety of thinking skills to anticipate and solve problems.

6. Locate, select, organize, and document information using appropriate technology and information systems.

7. Analyze, evaluate, and apply relevant information from a variety of sources.

8. Show respect for diverse opinions, values belief systems, and contributions of others.

9. Interact with others in groups or teams in ways that contribute to effective working relationships and the achievement of goals.

10. Manage the use of time and other resources to complete projects.

11. Take responsibility for one’s own actions, decisions, and consequences.

*There are 11 Essential Employability Skills outcomes as per the Ministry Program Standard. Of these 11 outcomes, the following will be assessed in this course

Global Citizenship and Equity Learning Outcomes

There are six Global Citizenship and Equity (GCE) learning outcomes integrated into Diploma and Advanced Diploma programs as a component of Centennial’s Signature Learning Experience (SLE). The SLE reflects the College’s promise to provide students with a distinctive and inclusive educational experience that builds on a foundation of global citizenship, equity, and social justice. Certificate and Graduate Certificates also include at least two GCE learning outcomes. The GCE learning outcomes are:

1. Identify one’s role and responsibilities as a global citizen in personal and professional life.
2. Identify beliefs, values and behaviors that form individual and community identities and the basis for respectful relationships.
3. Analyze issues of equity at the personal, professional, and global level.
4. Analyze the use of the world’s resources to achieve sustainability and equitable distribution at the personal, professional, and global level.
5. Identify and challenge unjust practices in local and global systems.
6. Support personal and social responsibility initiatives at the local, national, and global level.