Student Learning Outcomes
Goal 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice
Outcome 1.1 Graduates will integrate, translate, and apply established and evolving scientific knowledge from diverse sources as the basis for ethical clinical judgment, innovation, and diagnostic reasoning.
Goal 2: Person-Centered Care
Outcome 2.1 Graduates will use evidence-based best practices to design, manage, and evaluate comprehensive person-centered care within the regulatory and educational scope of practice, with respect for differences, preferences, values, needs, resources, and determinants of health unique to the individual.
Goal 3: Population Health
Outcome 3.1 Graduates will partner, across the care continuum, with public health, healthcare systems, community, academic community, governmental, and other entities to integrate foundational nurse practitioner knowledge into culturally competent practices to increase health promotion and disease prevention strategies to affect the care of populations.
Goal 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline
Outcome 4.1 Graduates will generate, appraise, synthesize, translate, integrate, and disseminate knowledge to improve person-centered health and systems of care.
Goal 5: Quality and Safety
Outcome 5.1 Graduates will use knowledge and principles of translational and improvement science methodologies to improve quality and safety for providers, patients, populations, and systems of care.
Goal 6: Interprofessional Partnerships
Outcome 6.1 Graduates will collaborate with the interprofessional team to provide care through meaningful communication and active participation in person-centered and population-centered care.
Goal 7: System-Based Practice
Outcome 7.1 Graduates will demonstrate organizational and systems leadership to improve healthcare outcomes.
Goal 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
Outcome 8.1 Graduates will envision, appraise, and use informatics and healthcare technologies to deliver care.
Goal 9: Professionalism
Outcome 9.1 Graduates will demonstrate attributes and perspectives of the nursing profession and adherence to ethical principles while functioning as committed partners of the interprofessional healthcare team.
Goal 10: Personal, Professional and Leadership Development
Outcome 10.1 Graduates will participate in professional and personal growth activities to develop a sustainable progression toward professional and interpersonal maturity, improved resilience, and robust leadership capacity.
The student learning outcomes for this program are aligned with the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Core Nurse Practitioner Competencies and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials.