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2023 Graduation

Learning Outcomes

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

The program outcomes of the MSN program are to provide graduate nursing students with the:

  1. Critical thinking, interpersonal, and technical skills of a nurse leader with an advanced degree;
  2. Academic foundation necessary to pursue doctoral education.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

Based on the Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing (AACN, 2011) and the Graduate-Level QSEN Competencies Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes (AACN, 2012), the student learning outcomes for the Master of Science in Nursing Program are as follows:

  1. Integrate scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings.
  2. Explain the impacts of organizational and systems leadership on quality and safety of patient care.
  3. Develop leadership skills that emphasize ethical and critical decision making, effective working relationships, and a systems perspective.
  4. Articulate methods, tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality, as well as apply quality principles within an organization.
  5. Apply research outcomes within the practice setting, resolve practice problems, work as a change agent, and disseminate results.
  6. Use patient-care technologies to deliver and enhance care and uses communication technologies to integrate and coordinate care.
  7. Intervene at the system level through the policy development process and employ advocacy strategies to influence health and health care.
  8. Function as a member and leader of interprofessional teams and communicate, collaborate, and consult with other health professionals to manage and coordinate care.
  9. Apply and integrate broad, organizational, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts in the planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinical prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and aggregates/identified populations.
  10. Understand nursing and relevant sciences, as well as integrate this knowledge into practice, including both direct and indirect care components.
  11. Develop professional goals that reflect a lifelong learning commitment and continued scholarship to the nursing profession.
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