Program Learning Outcomes

Outcome 1

Integrate nursing knowledge and clinical judgment, incorporating insights from other disciplines, such as liberal arts, natural sciences, and social sciences, to influence and impact nursing practice.

Synthesize and translate nursing knowledge, and clinical judgment, incorporating insights such as liberal arts, natural sciences, and social sciences, to influence within the advanced nursing practice specialty.

Knowledge for Nursing Practice; Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences.

  • Be Curious

Outcome 2

Assess, deliver and evaluate holistic person-centered care that is respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based and developmentally appropriate, promoting access for all.

Lead, analyze, and synthesize the implementation of holistic person-centered care that is respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based and developmentally appropriate, promoting access for all.

Person Centered Care; Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate.

  • We Care
  • Better Together

Outcome 3

Provide population and global health across all spheres of care, through partnerships with communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities and other diverse groups for the improvement of equitable outcomes.

Advance population and global health initiatives, spanning from wellness and prevention to disease management, through partnerships with communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities and other diverse groups for the improvement of equitable outcomes.

Population Health; Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.

  • We Care
  • Better Together

Outcome 4

Synthesize, apply and disseminate nursing scholarship to improve health care outcomes.

Translate, apply and disseminate nursing scholarship to improve health care outcomes and transform healthcare within the scope of the advanced nursing practice specialty.

Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline; The generation, synthesis, translation, application and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.

  • Be Curious
  • Show Your Fire
  • Courageous Integrity

Outcome 5

Advocate for and utilize established and emerging safety principles to enhance quality and mitigate risk of harm to patients and providers through both individual performance and system effectiveness.

Coordinate the implementation of initiatives to advance safety principles that enhance quality and mitigate risk of harm to patients and providers through both individual performance and system effectiveness.

Quality and Safety; Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

  • Courageous Integrity
  • We Care

Outcome 6

Demonstrate core professional nursing values and intentional collaboration across professions with care team members, through accountability and shared decision making with patients, families and communities to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience and improve outcomes.

Model and facilitate core professional nursing values and intentional collaboration across professions with care team members, through accountability and shared decision making with patients, families and communities to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience and improve outcomes.

Interprofessional Partnerships; 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.

  • Better Together
  • Show Your Fire

Outcome 7

Coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, cost-effective and equitable care within complex health systems.

Design and adapt innovative strategies to provide safe, quality, cost-effective and equitable care within complex health systems.

Systems-Based Practice; Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe quality and equitable care to diverse populations.

  • We Care
  • Better Together

Outcome 8

Utilize informatics and healthcare technologies to compile data, communicate between professionals, inform decision making and optimize the delivery of safe, high-quality, efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards in a variety of settings.

Utilize informatics and healthcare technologies to generate, analyze and integrate data, communicate between professionals, inform decision making and optimize the delivery of safe, high-quality, efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards in a variety of settings.

Informatics and Healthcare Technologies; Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.

  • Courageous Integrity
  • Be Curious
  • Better Together

Outcome 9

Cultivate and exhibit a sustainable professional identity that includes accountability, integrity, curiosity, ethical practice, courage, civility, justice, advocacy and a sense of oneself that reflect nursing’s characteristics and values.

Model a sustainable professional identify that includes accountability, integrity, curiosity, ethical practice, courage, civility, justice, advocacy and a sense of oneself that reflect nursing’s characteristics and values through mentorship of others as an advanced nursing practice specialist.

Professionalism; Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition and comportment, that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.

  • Courageous Integrity
  • Be Curious
  • We Care
  • Better Together
  • Show Your Fire

Outcome 10

Practice self-reflection and participate in activities that foster personal health, resilience and well-being; contribute to career-long learning; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the development of leadership capacity.

Practice self-reflection and prioritize activities that foster personal health, resilience and well-being; contribute to career-long learning; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the development of leadership capacity at the advanced nursing practice specialty level.

Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development; Participation in activities and self-reflection that fosters personal health, resilience and well-being; contributes to lifelong learning; and supports the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.

  • Be Curious
  • Show Your Fire