Terminal objectives/learning outcomes

Upon completion of the program, students can expect to achieve the following outcomes:

  1. Provide advance practice nursing care to individuals, families, and/or populations that is ethical and science-based.
  2. Develop and initiate new innovative practice approaches based on theories from nursing and other disciplines.
  3. Analyze, synthesize and evaluate accessibility and quality of care across diverse, underserved and vulnerable populations.
  4. Utilize the determinants of health for individuals and/or aggregates/communities for diverse, underserved and vulnerable populations.
  5. Critically appraise, disseminate and translate science to advance the quality and accessibility of care.
  6. Demonstrate advanced clinical investigative competencies to evaluate clinical outcomes and systems of care.
  7. Use information technology in design, selection, use and evaluation of programs to advance the accessibility of care.
  8. Critically appraise, disseminate and translate innovative technological advancement to improve the quality and accessibility of care.
  9. Demonstrate leadership in communication and collaborative skills as agents of change that improves accessibility to quality health care for diverse, underserved and vulnerable populations.
  10. Analyze emerging clinical patterns and develop delivery approaches to care that deals with complex problems within the practice settings, health care organizations, and communities.
  11. Shape the health care policy debate.