Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Program Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate accountability for advanced practice nursing decisions based on professional, evidence-based standards, genetics, public health policy and ethics for improvement of advanced nursing care across diverse settings. (Essential I)

2. Utilize leadership, critical thinking, and reasoning skills to determine population based health care delivery outcomes in organizational and health care systems in organization and system management. (Essential II)

3. Implement quality and safety improvement measures within patient care, interprofessional teams, and organizational levels using appropriate performance measures. (Essential III)

4. Translate theoretical and/or clinical directed research into evidence-based health care advanced academic and clinical nursing practice at the individual, family, and community levels. (Essential IV)

5. Integrate health care technology and informatics processes to achieve high quality patient health care and educational outcomes across all settings. (Essential V)

6. Demonstrate character and ethical leadership in a faith-based environment by participating in policy development and patient advocacy. (Essential VI)

7. Integrate an understanding of interprofessional collaboration, communication, and disease management and leadership to achieve population based health educational care outcomes. (Essential VII)

8. Apply and coordinate culturally sensitive nursing care to population based health care environments to plan, implement, manage, and evaluate evidence-based practice. (Essential VIII)

9. Demonstrate clinical competence in advance practice educational settings incorporating patient centered care, interprofessional collaboration, healthcare management, and teaching/learning in an evidence-based practice environment. (Essential IX)