Program Outcomes & Standards
Outcomes
| 2021 AACN DOMAINS | PROGAM OUTCOME: ENTRY-LEVEL | PROGAM OUTCOME: ADVANCED-LEVEL |
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| 1. Knowledge for Nursing Practice | Apply nursing practice decisions using the foundation of a liberal education and evolving knowledge from nursing science, the biological and behavioral sciences, and humanities. | Integrate, translate, and apply established knowledge and ways of knowing from nursing, other disciplines, liberal arts, and natural and social sciences to promote clinical judgement and innovation in nursing practice. |
| 2. Person Centered Care | Use inter-intra professional communication and collaborative skills to advocate for safe, evidence-based, high quality patient centered care. | Design, deliver, manage, and evaluate comprehensive patient care. |
| 3. Population Health | Demonstrate basic understanding of the role of health promotion, and disease/injury in improving population health across the life span. | Engage in collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partners from communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes. |
| 4. Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline | Apply reliable evidence from multiple crediable sources of knowledge including basic health sciences to inform nursing pratice and make clinical judgements. | Generate, synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care. |
| 5. Quality and Safety | Identify quality improvement data to assess patient outcomes related to system management processes to improve the safety and quality of patient care. | Employ principles of safety and improvement science to enhance healthcare quality and minimize harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. |
| 6. Interprofessional Partnerships | Demonstrates the ability to communcate with patients, families, communities, and professionals in health and other fields in a responsive and responsbile manner. | Demonstrate intentional engagement in dynamic interprofessional teams to optimize patient- and population-centered care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes. |
| 7. Systems-Based Practice | Demonstrates an awareness of the impact of healthcare system changes on planning, organizing, to the delivery of patient care. | Display leadership and agility in coordinating resources within complex systems of healthcare to provide safe, effective, and equitable care for diverse populations. |
| 8. Information and Healthcare Technologies | Demonstrate the skills in using patient care technologies, information systems, and communication devices that support safety and quality nursing practices. | Demonstrate informatics and communication acumen to achieve the effective collection and exchange of information with patients, the public, and other health professionals. |
| 9. Professionalism | Demonstrate the values central to nursing practice including altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, advocacy, social justice and live long learning. | Demonstrate accountability in carrying out professional and societal responsibilities, and adhere to ethical principles. |
| 10. Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development | Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high-quality nursing care, healthcare team coordination, and the oversight and accountability for safe care delivery in a variety of settings. | Exhibit self-reflection, flexibility, curiosity, and other qualities necessary to sustain professional growth, resilience, leadership capacity, and lifelong personal well-being. |
Professional Standards & Guidelines
| Standard/Guideline | Organization Link & Year |
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Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice |
American Association of Colleges of Nurses |
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Criteria for Evaluation of Nurse Practitioners Programs |
National Task Force on Quality Nurse Practitioner Education (2022) |
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Graduate Competencies |
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Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies |
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (2023) |
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Nursing Licensure Examinations |
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Core competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice |
Interprofessional Education Collaborative |
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Standards for Professional Nursing Practice in the Care of Women and Children 8th ed. |
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses |
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Woman’s Health Nurse Practitioner Guidelines for Practice and Education, 8th Edition |
Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health |