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Student Learning Outcomes

Student Learning Outcomes Prior to Fall 2025

Quality Improvement
Leads interprofessional, culturally-sensitive, and evidence-based initiatives within organizations and systems to continuously improve the safety and quality of healthcare.

Research and Scholarship
Initiates use of theory and research to identify clinical problems or solutions, participates in scientific inquiry, and translates scholarship into practice.

Nature of Practice
Assumes the direct and indirect roles and functions of advanced nursing practice to promote health, prevent illness, and improve the health of patients and populations.

Leadership
Promotes implementation of the full scope of nursing practice and assumes leadership positions in employer, professional, or community organizations at the local/state/national level.

Ethics
Incorporates ethical principles in complex situations of advanced nursing practice and clinical inquiry.

Collaboration
Collaborates with other health care professionals to initiate intra- and/or interprofessional teams to enhance practice and patient/population health outcomes.

Communication
Integrates information, technology, and practice guidelines to promote effective communication among patients and colleagues within health care systems.

Advocacy and Policy Development
Advocates for the development of health and social policy to improve health and practice by community engagement and participating in employer and professional organizations.

Effective Fall 2025

Knowledge for Nursing Practice 

Applies advanced nursing and interdisciplinary knowledge from academic and active learning experiences in clinical judgment and patient management.

Person-Centered Care 

Assumes the direct and indirect roles and functions of advanced nursing practice to promote health, prevent illness, and improve the health of patients and populations.

Population Health

Collaborates through partnerships with patients, communities, and other healthcare professionals to address population health outcomes. 

Scholarship for Nursing Practice

Utilizes theory and research to identify clinical problems or solutions, participates in scientific inquiry, and translates scholarship into practice.

Quality and Safety

Develops interprofessional, culturally sensitive and evidence-based initiatives to continuously improve the safety and quality of institutional health care.

Interprofessional Partnerships

Fosters collaboration with intra- and interprofessional teams to enhance practice and patient/population health outcomes.

Systems-Based Practice

Advocates for system improvements and provides optimal care to diverse populations using evidence-based methodologies.

Information and Healthcare Technologies

Integrates informatic and technological tools to manage and improve communication and the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with the best practice and professional and regulatory standards.

Professionalism

Incorporates ethical principles in advanced nursing practice and advocates for the development of policies to improve health outcomes in diverse populations

Personal, Professional, & Leadership Development

Promotes implementation of the full scope of nursing practice assuming leadership positions at the local/state/national levels.