Section I: Overview
Program Goals and Learning Outcomes
For DNP and Ph.D. PROGRAM GOALS and PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES, please refer to the DNP AND Ph.D. student handbooks respectively.
ABSN Program Link to section
Program Goals: Link to section
Prepare registered professional nurses who are capable of independent and collaborative problem-solving, decision-making, and the delivery and coordination of care to meet a wide range of client healthcare needs.
Prepare registered professional nurses who contribute to excellence in nursing care by scholarly contributions through participating in the discovery, integration, and application of research.
Prepare registered professional nurses who engage in activities to promote self-awareness and self-growth in the practice of nursing.
Program Learning Outcomes: Link to section
Clinical Judgement and Reasoning
Demonstrate competent clinical judgment in the provision of safe and effective quality client care.
Communication
Demonstrate effective and culturally respectful communication skills when interacting with others. Communicate effectively when interacting with clients, families, and professional teams.
Teamwork and Collaboration Skills
Use inters and intra-professional collaboration to promote high-quality care coordination.
Collaborate effectively in intra- and interprofessional teams to coordinate safe and effective care.
Client/Family-Centered Care within a Cultural Context
Plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care to meet the culturally diverse needs of individuals, families, and communities.
Provide client and family-centered care in an appropriate cultural context.
Evidence-Based Practice
Demonstrate integration of disciplinary knowledge, clinical appraisal of the best evidence, and client values in the provision of quality nursing care.
Professional Identity Formation in Practice
Engage in self-assessment and reflective practice to improve professional performance following professional standards.
Leadership
Demonstrate foundational leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities. Leadership includes advocacy for self, clients, and the profession.
Advocate for self, clients, families, communities, and the nursing profession to improve and sustain safe and effective care.
Informatics
Use technology and information systems to enhance decision-making in healthcare delivery systems.
Effectively use the electronic health record and/or online resources and data to improve healthcare outcomes.
Population Health
Examine the impact of determinants of health on client care, health promotion, and disease prevention in diverse populations in multiple contexts across the lifespan.
RN to BS Program Link to section
Program Goals Link to section
Prepare registered professional nurses who are capable of independent and collaborative problem-solving, decision-making, and the delivery and coordination of care to meet a wide range of client healthcare needs.
Prepare registered professional nurses who contribute to excellence in nursing care by scholarly contributions through participating in the discovery, integration, and application of research.
Prepare registered professional nurses who engage in activities to promote self-awareness and self-growth in the practice of nursing.
Program Learning Outcomes Link to section
Patient and family-centered care within a cultural context
Plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care to meet the culturally diverse needs of individuals, families, and communities across the lifespan.
Clinical judgment and reasoning
Demonstrate competent clinical judgment in the provision of safe, effective, evidenced-based, quality patient care.
Teamwork and interprofessional collaboration
Use inter- and intra-professional collaboration to promote high-quality care coordination.
Delivery of healthcare in complex systems
Analyze care delivery within complex systems for optimized care of patients, families, and communities.
Population Health
Use health promotion and disease prevention strategies to address the complex health needs of an increasingly diverse US population.
Professional Identity
Engage in self-assessment and reflective practice to promote professional performance and clinical growth.
Informatics
Utilize data and informatics for the delivery of nursing care across the lifespan.
Master’s Nurse Practitioner Program (NP) Link to section
Program Goals Link to section
Providers base clinical care, decision-making, and clinical services on scientific evidence which is grounded in careful analysis of the unique needs of the individual, group, or population.
Providers who are actively engaged in scholarship through the clinical application of existing knowledge and the generation and dissemination of new clinical knowledge.
Providers who maintain competence in their specialty through formal and informal educational opportunities, and specialty certification, and who promote the ongoing education of others.
Program Learning Outcomes Link to section
Create comprehensive population-specific, patient-centered plans of care to improve health outcomes.
Implement the principles of quality and patient safety using emerging scientific evidence for continuous improvement of person-centered care.
Synthesize established and evolving scientific knowledge from diverse sources and disciplines to contribute to the generation, translation, and dissemination of clinical scholarship.
Design plans of care that integrate determinants of health, health promotion, disease prevention, and health restoration for diverse populations through collaborative partnerships that produce equitable health outcomes.
Collaborate with interprofessional teams, patients, families, and communities using effective interpersonal and communication skills to optimize safe and effective patient care.
Demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities and adherence to ethical principles.
Synthesize principles of organizational leadership and systems-based thinking to effectively participate in transforming healthcare delivery systems to improve equitable health outcomes.
Appraise data, information technology, communication networks, and patient care technology to monitor outcomes of care, care systems, and practice improvement to drive healthcare decisions that improve quality and efficiency in care delivery.
Promote racial and social justice and health equity across diverse healthcare settings.
Master’s Leadership in Health Care Systems (LHCS) Link to section
Program Goals Link to section
Prepare healthcare leaders to provide strategic and sustainable leadership with clear and visible values, to create organizational environments that support optimal patient and faculty outcomes and high employee engagement.
Prepare healthcare leaders to support evidence-based practice and inquiry relevant to improving health and complex healthcare systems.
Prepare healthcare leaders to create environments that foster innovation and continuous learning.
Program Learning Outcomes Link to section
Lead effective, high-performance interprofessional teams to meet organizational goals in a variety of healthcare environments.
Demonstrate evidence-based leadership practice in all aspects of the healthcare manager role in a variety of healthcare environments.
Create and sustain cultures of diversity and inclusion to promote racial and social justice, and health equity across diverse healthcare settings.
Apply principles of continuous quality improvement in daily and strategic operations to optimize stakeholder outcomes in a variety of healthcare environments.
Interpret and apply economic, financial, and health outcomes data through the use of organizational information systems to support organizational decision-making, attainment of strategic goals, and effective operations in a variety of healthcare environments.
Clinical Nurse Leader Program (CNL) Link to section
Program Goals Link to section
Prepare healthcare leaders to provide strategic and sustained direction, clear and visible values, and organizational environments that foster continuous improvement and enable success.
Prepare healthcare leaders to support evidence-based practice and inquiry relevant to improving health and complex healthcare systems.
Prepare healthcare leaders to create environments that foster innovation and continuous learning.
Program Learning Outcomes Link to section
Lead interprofessional teams to improve healthcare delivery.
Engage in systems review to improve the quality of patient care delivery.
Use information technology to analyze data and optimize patient care.
Engage in evidence-based practice to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
Evaluate population health and disease prevention services to improve the health of individuals, families, and communities.
Create and sustain cultures of diversity and inclusion to promote racial and social justice and health equity across diverse healthcare settings.
Master’s in Nursing Education Program (MNE) Link to section
Program Goals Link to section
Prepare educational leaders who will model evidence-based practices in teaching and learning and interprofessional practice in academic, clinical, and community settings.
Prepare educational leaders who are actively engaged in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Prepare educational leaders who will lead with integrity, demonstrating attainment of national nurse educator and graduate nursing education competencies.
Program Learning Outcomes Link to section
Function as educational leaders and change agents, advancing evidence-based teaching and learning practices and systems at the local, regional, and national levels.
Make judgments that reflect a scholarly critique of current evidence from nursing, education, and other disciplines to identify gaps in knowledge and formulate research questions.
Implement learner-centered pedagogy in clinical, community, and academic settings that facilitates learning to achieve desired cognitive, affective, and psychomotor outcomes.
Demonstrate educational leadership skills in leading intra/inter-professional teams to foster collaboration and transform clinical and academic nursing education.
Contribute to the scholarship of nursing education through discovery, teaching, and integration.
Lead organizational change to promote all aspects of racial and social justice and health equity across diverse educational settings.
Promote social justice and equity in education and patient care delivery, across diverse academic and clinical settings.