During our program, students will develop skills to:
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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. |
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Adapted from: AACN (2021). The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education https://www.aacnnursing.org/Portals/0/PDFs/Publications/Essentials-2021.pdf