Program Outcomes

During our program, students will develop skills to:

Domain

Doctor of Nursing Practice Program Outcome (2025)
1. Knowledge for Nursing Practice Synthesize advanced nursing science, theoretical frameworks, and interdisciplinary knowledge to evaluate complex healthcare challenges and generate innovative evidence-based approaches that transform healthcare delivery.
2. Person-Centered Care Design holistic, ethical approaches to care that integrate patient/family preferences and values, while critiquing existing delivery models to ensure equitable, empowering, and individualized care across diverse populations.
3. Population Health Analyze and integrate biological, psychological, social, and structural determinants of health to formulate innovative population-based interventions that optimize health promotion and disease management in partnership with communities and health systems.
4. Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline Transform nursing practice through rigorous evaluation, implementation, and dissemination of ethical and evidence-based innovations which advance the discipline and address complex healthcare challenges. 
5. Quality and Safety Develop comprehensive quality improvement methodologies and evaluate their effectiveness in transforming care delivery through the application of improvement science, risk mitigation strategies, and evidence-based innovations.
6. Interprofessional Partnerships Design sustainable change initiatives that transform organizational  culture, advance health equity, and improve health outcomes through collaborative practices.
7. System-Based Practice Create system-wide initiatives that optimize cost-effectiveness and resource allocation while evaluating their impact on quality, accessibility, and outcomes for diverse populations across healthcare delivery systems.
8. Informatics and Health Care Technologies Formulate adaptive informatics and technological solutions and assess their effectiveness in optimizing equitable person-centered care, addressing practice gaps, and reducing health disparities.
9. Professionalism Develop professional nursing leadership grounded in ethical conduct, social justice principles, and professional standards that reflects accountability and commitment to equity in healthcare delivery.
10. Personal, Professional and Leadership Development Commit to a culture of lifelong learning and professional development by continual reflection of personal and organizational performance, sharing knowledge, and leading initiatives that advance nursing excellence and well being. 

Please review our program FAQs for additional information.

Adapted from: AACN (2021). The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education https://www.aacnnursing.org/Portals/0/PDFs/Publications/Essentials-2021.pdf