Master of Science in Nursing Program Learning Outcomes (FLOs)

The desired terminal objectives for the Master of Nursing Program are to produce advance practice Nurses and graduates who can demonstrate competencies in the following PLOs: Derived from Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2011)

PLO 1. Integrates scientific underpinnings from nursing, bio-psychosocial fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings (evidence-based practice) in the role of the master prepared nurse.

PLO 2. Utilizes principles of organizational and systems leadership critical to the promotion of high quality and safe patient care emphasizing ethical and critical decision making, effective working relationships and a systems-perspective.

PLO 3. Articulates the methods, tools, performance measures, and standards relate to quality, as well as are prepared to apply these principles within an organization.

PLO 4. Translates and integrates scholarship into practice by applying research outcomes within the practice setting, resolving practice problems, and working as change agents to disseminate results.

PLO 5. Utilizes informatics and health care technologies to deliver and enhance care and use communication technologies to integrate and coordinate care.

PLO 6. Uses inter-professional collaboration to improve patient and population health outcomes as a member and leader of interprofessional teams while communicating collaborating and consulting with others to manage and coordinate care.

PLO 7. Applies and integrate broad, organizational, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts in the planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinical prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and aggregate populations.

PLO 8. Practices with an advanced knowledge of nursing and relevant sciences background and integrate this knowledge into practice.

PLO 9. Demonstrates practice that is broadly defined to include any evidence-based nursing intervention resulting in the influence of healthcare outcomes for individuals, populations and or systems with the intention to impact care directly and indirectly.