Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program Outcomes
- Apply relevant theories from nursing and related natural and behavioral sciences as a foundation for health promotion, disease prevention and the education and planning of culturally responsive, patient centered holistic care for patients, including individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations across the lifespan (patient centered care).
- Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve high-quality, safe patient care outcomes. (leadership and professionalism, communication, team work & collaboration, quality improvement and safety).
- Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making for the delivery of quality patient care.(informatics and technology, quality improvement and safety, systems based practice, communication, teamwork and collaboration).
- Demonstrate organizational and systems leadership to effectively monitor the outcomes and processes and guide improvement methods that promote diverse, culturally responsive care through quality promotion and disease prevention initiatives to minimize risk of harm. (leadership and professionalism, quality improvement and safety, patient centered care, systems based practice, communication, teamwork and collaboration).
- Utilize scholarly inquiry to integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for the provision of evidence-based, comprehensive nursing care. (evidence based practice, systems based practice).
- Apply professional standards of practice that demonstrate professional role accountability and culturally responsive leadership in health policy, advocacy, and management of holistic care that incorporate the inherent values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity and social justice. (patient centered care, leadership and professionalism, social justice).
Master of Science in Nursing Program Outcomes
- Integrate research, scholarship, and evidence based practice from nursing and related sciences as a framework for planning holistic care of the patient in various environmental contexts.
- Demonstrate competence in providing and evaluating advanced nursing practice with an emphasis on safety and quality.
- Demonstrate leadership for advanced nursing practice as a member of an interprofessional team within various environmental contexts.
- Design evidence-based clinical prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and communities.
- Critically appraise evidence in the planning, delivery and evaluation of safe and effective care within various environmental contexts.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills to promote health and help shape the health delivery system through policy, processes, and advocacy.
- Develop culturally sensitive, ethical, and financially sound comprehensive nursing care to individuals, aggregates, and/or communities.
Post-Master of Science in Nursing Certificate Program Outcomes
- Integrate research, scholarship, and evidence based practice from nursing and related sciences as a framework for planning holistic care of the patient in various environmental contexts.
- Demonstrate competence in providing and evaluating advanced nursing practice with an emphasis on safety and quality.
- Demonstrate leadership for advanced nursing practice as a member of an interprofessional team within various environmental contexts.
- Design evidence-based clinical prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and communities.
- Critically appraise evidence in the planning, delivery and evaluation of safe and effective care within various environmental contexts.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills to promote health and help shape the health delivery system through policy, processes, and advocacy.
- Develop culturally sensitive, ethical, and financially sound comprehensive nursing care to individuals, aggregates, and/or communities.
Doctor of Nursing Practice Program Outcomes
- Apply concepts related to clinical prevention in developing and evaluating interventions and programs to address health promotion/disease prevention efforts
- Demonstrate leadership for the delivery of ethical, safe, cost-effective, high quality health care through expert collaboration, consultation, analysis, and administration
- Demonstrate the conceptual ability and technical skills to develop and execute an evaluation plan involving data extraction from clinical information
- Develop quality programs designed to improve health care of individuals, populations, or society through the use of multidisciplinary teams
- Formulate strategies for the development of institutional, local, or national health policy
- Integrate nursing science with knowledge from biophysical, psychosocial, political, economic, organizational, and analytical sciences as the basis for the highest level of nursing practice
- Provide and/or direct exemplary patient care within the scope of practice for the specialty