Demonstrate a commitment to a lifelong learning plan for professional development.
Demonstrate cultural and spiritual competencies in providing care and working with other healthcare professionals from diverse cultures and spiritual backgrounds.
Demonstrate ethical and professional nursing roles, values, social justice, and human dignity.
Demonstrate knowledge of current nursing trends to form interdisciplinary collaborative relationships that improve professional nursing practice and the quality of healthcare within local and global communities.
Design competent, patient-centered professional nursing care for individuals, families, and populations across the health continuum in a variety of community-based settings and institutions, emphasizing patient safety and quality.
Implement elements of health promotion and disease prevention in planning and providing care for individuals, families, and populations.
Implement leadership strategies that support and promote professional nursing practice.
Integrate effective communication, informatics, and information literacy skills for professional nursing practice.
Integrate the use of political regulatory processes to impact healthcare systems, clinical practice, and quality improvement policies.
Use evidence-based practice and research findings in the provision of professional nursing practice.
Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)/Post-Master’s Certificate (PMC)
Upon the completion of the program, MSN/PMC graduates will be able to:
Synthesize theoretical and empirical knowledge derived from the physical and behavioral sciences and humanities as a basis for professional nursing practice.
Apply the nursing process to all levels of practice using the steps of assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, interventions, and evaluation.
Demonstrate competent practice as a master’s prepared registered nurse in a variety of settings.
Implement health promotion and disease prevention strategies for population-based practice that incorporates systems, the community, individuals, and families.
Communicate effectively using oral, written, and technological skills in clinical, educational, and professional settings.
Demonstrate ethical nursing practice to improve professional nursing practice, and the work environment, and influence improvement in healthcare.
Advocate for the patient’s rights, healthcare policies, and finance systems that promote, preserve, and restore individual and public health.
Provide leadership in collaborative efforts with intra-disciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, thus providing a broad approach to complex patient care and community problems.
Demonstrate a spirit of inquiry and critically analyze data, research findings, and other evidence to advance nursing practice, initiate change, and promote quality health care.
Formulate a professional philosophy that incorporates a commitment to human values and lifelong learning.
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Upon the completion of the program, DNP graduates will be able to:
Develop practices based on the advanced knowledge of nursing theories and empirical studies derived from other disciplines and organizational sciences as the underpinnings of the nursing practice and support the advancement of the nursing profession to its highest level.
Develop healthcare practices that draw from theory and evidence-based advanced nursing practice that create and evaluate innovative, complex approaches to deliver patient-centered care.
Examine the influence of public policy decisions on the health promotion, disease prevention, and health restoration services provided to diverse populations.
Design and implement safe, equitable, and quality health care for the vulnerable population based on translational science, multidisciplinary knowledge, and social justice principles.
Investigate safety regulations, and quality improvement methods to identify, develop, implement, and evaluate best safe practices for patients, healthcare providers, and the healthcare system.
Design multidisciplinary clinical/leader partnerships to strengthen healthcare goals by leveraging roles and abilities of the interdisciplinary team that will yield positive patient and system outcomes.
Create innovative and evidence-based approaches to optimize system effectiveness while considering internal and external system policies and processes that can result in structural prejudice and other types of discrimination in healthcare systems.
Investigate data analytic methods, information systems, and technology in compliance with professional, legal, ethical, and regulatory requirements to improve programs of care, outcomes of care, and delivery of care system.
Create a professional development program that outlines nursing’s unique professional identity in asserting control, influence, and power in professional and personal contexts with an emphasis on advocating patient rights, diversity, equity, and inclusion in the healthcare sector through the nursing profession.