Program Outcomes
B.S. Health Sciences

Updated June 17, 2025

1. Professional Competencies

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates achieve professional competencies as currently defined by their respective profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate appropriate content knowledge as required by either entry-level or post-professional practice
  2. Demonstrate clinical, research and/or technical skills necessary for successful performance in the chosen discipline

Program Outcomes:

  1. Discuss the structure and function of healthcare delivery in the United States.
  2. Identify the roles and responsibilities of each member of the health care delivery team and how they collaborate to develop a treatment plan.
  3. Describe commonly seen diseases in preparation for a future career as a healthcare provider.
  4. Utilize tools and knowledge from biology, neuroscience, engineering, and computer science to understand biomechanics and its application to improving physical health and wellness.
  5. Explain nutritional principles necessary for health and wellness.

2. Professionalism

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates exhibit professional behaviors such as cultural sensitivity, integrity, respect, compassion, and altruism, and demonstrate excellence in delivery of service and a commitment to their profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Exhibit professional behaviors in all interactions
  2. Exhibit a commitment to their profession through professional membership or participation in professional activities, and by interrelating with other professionals
  3. Identify and evaluate the impact of culture and diversity on health beliefs, practices, and actions
  4. Apply and/or demonstrate leadership principles and strategies in organization or professional settings

Program Outcomes:

  1. Identify the role and influence of culture, societal norms, and behavioral factors in the delivery of healthcare services.

3. Communication

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively communicate in oral, written, and technical formats.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Express concepts in writing using proper grammar and stylistic guidelines
  2. Appropriately document health information according to professional standards
  3. Demonstrate critical thinking by synthesizing, organizing, presenting, and/or disseminating information following established guidelines at a level appropriate for the target audience
  4. Adapt appropriate interactions and/or strategies in order to accommodate diverse audiences

Program Outcomes:

  1. Communicate health related information.
  2. Review effective writing strategies utilized in the health science literature.
  3. Examine how data structures and systems protect privacy as it pertains to electronic health records.

4. Collaboration

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates collaborate with health care team members and other stakeholders to facilitate the attainment of common goals.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Identify roles and responsibilities of team members in the provision of patient/client/community care
  2. Identify opportunities and/or participate with others to set and achieve goals

Program Outcomes:

  1. Create a transdisciplinary patient plan for treatment.
  2. Explain IPEC competencies.

5. Ethics and Jurisprudence

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically evaluate, and practice professional, ethical and legal decision-making.

Objectives: Within the scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Maintain and/or adhere to professional ethics and legal requirements
  2. Articulate ethical and legal decision-making practices (process by which an ethical/legal decision was made)
  3. Apply ethical and legal principles to Identify breaches of professional ethics or legal requirements

Program Outcomes:

  1. Analyze legal, ethical, and policy issues that affect the delivery of health care in the United States.

6. Education

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates incorporate educational strategies into their roles.

Objectives: Within the scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Identify relevant educational content for a target audience
  2. Plan, implement and/or evaluate an educational program appropriate for a target audiences

Program Outcomes:

  1. Deliver presentations utilizing a variety of educational technologies that address
    different learning styles and learning theories.

7. Scholarship

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates apply methods of scientific inquiry and disseminate findings.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Propose a problem/topic and appropriate methods to investigate it
  2. Use systematic search techniques to find and critically appraise research and other sources of evidence
  3. Summarize and disseminate findings to appropriate audiences

Program Outcomes:

  1. Analyze and interpret research in health sciences and explain how the new
    knowledge may influence clinical practice.

8. Problem-Solving

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically analyze, and solve a variety of challenges.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Recognize and respond appropriately to various situations within their discipline regarding clinical, cultural, psychosocial, quality improvement and/or administrative problems
  2. Design and/or implement solutions using best evidence and/or practice guidelines
  3. Assess outcomes

Program Outcomes:

  1. Compare and contrast proposed solutions to address challenges in the delivery of care to diverse populations.

9. Information Management

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively access, manage and use scientific, health care and/or patient/client information while respecting the ownership and privacy of sources.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Identify and access sources of evidence/information to inform the decision making process for scholarship or patient care
  2. Analyze evidence/information for quality, economic, legal, and social implications
  3. Demonstrate proficiency in information privacy regulations, e.g. HIPPA and PHI
  4. Adapt to changing technology in their field

Program Outcomes:

  1. Explain the flow of healthcare data from collection, interpretation, to dissemination.
  2. Interpret privacy rules governing research and personal health data.
  3. Use information technology for selected learning experiences.

10. Safety

Schoolwide Outcome:

SHP graduates create a safe practice environment for themselves and their patients.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Recognize medical, behavioral, and public health emergencies
  2. Demonstrate skills to create safe environments and respond to health emergencies

Program Outcomes:

  1. Outline appropriate action in an emergency in any practice setting.
  2. Identify laboratory and test results indicating a need for necessary precautions and contraindications to therapy.