College Wide Learning Goals (CWLG)

To me, collaboration is working in a group to achieve a common goal. During my time at Westminster college I was able to collaborate with peers and professors on a multitude of projects. Collaborating during my time at Westminster has provided me with essential skills that I can use in my nursing career.During scholarly Inquiry, a course dedicated to research, I worked in a group to research how unions affect patients and nurses.

Creativity in education is a broad idea. It includes synthezing new ideas by innovation and risk taking. To me, creating goals for yourself requires creativity. You must be able to push your limits so that self growth it possible. Prior to my capstone I created a list of learning goals and objectives. I had to be creative and think of goals that would challenge me as a nurse.

Ethics in professional nursing was a course that requires critical thinking. To formulate an opinion and conclusion on a topic exploring research, ideas and others opinions will lead to a critically thought out conclusion. During my ethics course we were asked to think critically about a difficult ethical question, by doing my own research and forming my own opinions I was able to answer effectively.

Communicating ideas effectively and correctly is an essential skill in a professional setting. Being able to communicate in oral, visual and written forms will lead to success. For this poster, I wanted to effectively communicate the important topic of substances while breastfeeding. There is a lot of information for new mothers to know and creating a poster that is to the point and visually appealing will help the information get across.

It is socially responsible to understand what is occurring in your community and globally. Demonstrating knowledge on challeneges that community memebers are facing is a necessity for implementing change. During my Communication in Nursing course I was able to conduct a ommunity assessment on Kearns, UT. Driving around the community and conducting research, I was able to assess the needs of the community in terms of education, health and education.