Program Outcomes

Graduates will be able to:

• Integrate theories from nursing and other disciplinary knowledge to enrich clinical judgment and innovate advanced nursing practice.

• Design initiatives that promote individualized, compassionate, equitable and evidence-based quality healthcare for individuals, families and communities.

• Lead inter-professional teams to translate evidence and communicate nursing science and expertise to collaboratively optimize care, strategically address SDOH, and advocate for equitable health outcomes for populations.

• Disseminate scholarly work of evidenced-based practice or quality improvement initiatives designed to improve health and transform health care.

• Evaluate policy, practice, and complex care systems to promote quality, safety, and inclusivity, reduce risk, and improve outcomes for diverse populations.

• Analyze information from communication technologies and informatic processes to drive decision making, support professionals in the delivery of cost-effective care and QI or EBP initiatives.

• Model behaviors that reflect accountability, integrity, and characteristics that align with professional and ethical nursing standards.

• Engage in activities and self-reflection that foster compassionate self-care, resilience, well-being, lifelong learning, awareness of biases, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.