MSN (Advanced Practice NP) Program Outcomes
All students will be awarded a Master’s Degree in Nursing after successfully completing the required 48 hours of course work.
At the completion of the program, the graduate will be able to:
- Use disciplined reasoning from sciences and the humanities to:
- Integrate nursing and related sciences into the delivery of advanced nursing care to diverse populations.
- Design nursing care for a clinical or community focused population based on biopsychosocial, public health, nursing, and organizationalsciences.
- Apply ethical analysis and clinical reasoning to assess, intervene, and evaluate advanced nursing care delivery.
- Analyze nursing history to expand thinking and provide a sense of professional heritage and identity.
- Incorporate current and emerging genetic/genomic evidence in providing advanced nursing care to individuals, families, and communities while accounting for patient values and clinical judgment through:
- Synthesizing broad ecological, global and social determinants of health; principles of genetics and genomics; and epidemiologic data to design and deliver evidence based, culturally relevant clinical prevention interventions and strategies.
- Designing patient-centered and culturally responsive strategies in the delivery of clinical prevention and health promotion interventions and/or services to individuals, families, communities, and aggregates/clinical populations.
- Integrating clinical prevention and population health concepts in the development of culturally relevant and linguistically appropriate health education, communication strategies, and interventions.
- Support quality improvement and patient safety by:
- Promoting a professional environment that includes accountability, peer review, advocacy for patients and families, reporting of errors, and professional writing.
- Contributing to the integration of healthcare services to affect safety and quality of care to improve patient outcomes and reduce fragmentation of care.
- Participating in, and leading when appropriate, in quality initiatives that integrate socio-cultural factors affecting the delivery of nursing and healthcare services.
- Demonstrate organizational and systems leadership that:
- Emphasizes clinical practice.
- Continually improves health outcomes.
- Ensures patient safety.
- Analyze and evaluate evidence to integrate scholarship into practice through:
- Integrating theory, evidence, clinical judgment, and interprofessional perspectives to improve practice and health outcomes for patient aggregates.
- Articulating to a variety of audiences the evidence base for practice decisions, including the credibility of sources of information and the relevance to the practice problem.
- Applying practice guidelines to improve practice.
- Participating, and leading when appropriate, in collaborative teams to improve care outcomes and support policy changes through knowledge generation, dissemination, and implementation.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the analysis and use of information systems and technology to sustain improvements and promote transparency using high reliability and just culture principles through:
- Analyzing current emerging technologies to support safe practice environments, and to optimize patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and health outcomes.
- Using information and communication technologies, resources, and principles of learning to teach patients and others.
- The use of current and emerging technologies in the care environment to support lifelong learning for self and others.