Program Outcomes

Graduates will be able to:

• Integrate theories and evidence based on the art and science of nursing knowledge as well as other disciplines to make clinical decisions in the delivery of advanced psychiatric nursing care to patients across the lifespan.

• Formulate and communicate ethical and compassionate evidence-based individualized plans of care that promote a holistic well-being, resiliency, and mental health recovery, and provide treatments for psychiatric disorders that meet the needs of the individual, family, and community while acknowledging the importance of inclusivity, equity, and the SDOH.

• Collaborate with interprofessional teams and other stakeholders to formulate quality ideas or initiatives informed by policy and guidelines that advance safe patient care, improve patient outcomes, promote equity, and reduce risks to individuals, families, providers, and communities.

• Disseminate recommendations from clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based interventions, and knowledge from nursing and other sciences to improve psychiatric mental healthcare delivery and patient outcomes for diverse patients across the lifespan.

• Coordinate resources to provide safe, quality psychiatric and behavioral health care.

• Utilize information and technologies to provide psychiatric mental health care, gather data to drive clinical decision making, and support advanced-practice professionals in managing and improving the delivery of safe, high-quality, transparent healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional regulatory standards.

• Model behaviors that reflect accountability, leadership qualities, a collaborative nature, ethical practice standards, and the values of the advanced practice psychiatric mental health nurse.

• Participate in activities and self-reflection that foster compassionate self-care, resilience, well-being, lifelong learning, and leadership development as advanced practice psychiatric mental health nurse.