Master's Program Student Learning Outcomes

Based on The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing (2011) by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing

1. Integrates scientific findings from nursing, biopsychological fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse setting.
2. Apply organizational and systems leadership principals to a clinical setting. 
3. Demonstrate the ability to use the steps of evidence-based practice to implement clinical practice guidelines or design projects to improve health care delivery.
4. Applies research outcomes to resolve practice problems.
5. Use current emerging technologies and data analytics to enhance nursing practice.
6. Advocate for policies that improve the health of the public and the profession of nursing.
7. Use effective communications strategies to develop, participate, and lead interprofessional teams and partnerships.
8. Design patient-centered and culturally responsive strategies in delivery of clinical prevention and health promotion interventions.
9. Apply the best available evidence from nursing and other sciences to advance patient education, enhance accessibility of care, analyze practice patterns, and improve health care outcomes.

Based on The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021) by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing

1. Integrate established scientific theories and dynamic knowledge from the nursing profession, supplemented by an intellectual foundation in liberal arts and natural and social science fields, to exercise superlative clinical judgment and continuous innovation of nursing practice at an advanced level within the scope of practice across broad populations.
2. Formulate evidence-based, individualized person-centered care strategies at an advanced level within the scope of practice across diverse populations and the four spheres of care to guide holistic nursing practice.
3. Explicate public health promotion and disease prevention assessments and interventions that collaboratively delineate and address diverse stakeholder needs and preferences, optimize equitable outcomes across populations, and catalyze ongoing innovation at an advanced level within the scope of practice along the healthcare continuum.
4. Demonstrate the ability to synthesize and apply nursing knowledge at an advanced level within the scope of practice to enhance, transform, and improve health care and patient outcomes across broad populations.
5. Demonstrate the ability to design and use principles of safety and quality through quality improvement initiatives in nursing practice at an advanced level within the scope of practice across broad populations to improve individual performance, system effectiveness in care delivery, healthcare equipment and supplies, and health education materials while using the best available evidence.
6. At an advanced level within the scope of practice lead interprofessional teams at the unit level through intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes across diverse populations and spheres of care.
7. Apply proactive organizational and leadership principles within various work groups to support, integrate, and coordinate safe, quality, equitable, and respectful care at an advanced level within the scope of practice to diverse populations within complex healthcare systems.
8. Evaluate healthcare data, communication technologies, and informatics infrastructure to coordinate care, stratify data, inform decision making, and support the healthcare team to manage and improve the delivery of high-quality care at an advanced level within the scope of practice across broad populations and expand wisdom for professional practice in accordance with regulatory standards.
9. Further evolve the professional identity of nursing at an advanced level within the scope of practice across broad populations to reflect nursing’s collaborative characteristics and ethical values.
10. Model leadership at an advanced level within the scope of practice across broad populations in the cultivation of professional activities that foster individual and organizational resilience through personal and professional wellness and self-awareness and that promote lifelong learning to benefit the advancement of the nursing profession.