MSN and Post-MSN Purpose and Outcomes
The purpose of the master's program is to prepare baccalaureate nurses for advanced practice and provide a solid foundation for additional graduate study. Likewise, the purpose of the post-master's program is to provide additional special graduate education to nurses who have already earned a master's in nursing and who wish to practice as nurse practitioner, nurse educator or nurse administrator.
Program outcomes
Essential I: Background for Practice from Sciences and Humanities
Essentials VIII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving Health
Essentials IX: Master’s Level Nursing Practice
- Apply broad, organizational, patient-centered, ethical, and culturally responsive concepts into daily practice.
- Demonstrate theoretical knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to advanced role practice in nursing for analysis of clinical problems, illness prevention and health promotion strategies.
- Utilize quality processes to evaluate outcomes of aggregates and monitor trends in health care.
Essential II: Organizational and Systems Leadership
Essential III: Quality Improvement and Safety- Analyze the impact of systems on patient outcomes.
- Demonstrate leadership in providing quality cost-effective care, with management of human, fiscal, and physical resources.
Essential IV: Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practice- Apply translational research in the practice setting through problem identification, systematic inquiry, and continuous improvement processes.
Essential V: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies- Utilize current technologies to deliver, enhance, and document care across multiple settings to achieve optimal outcomes.
Essentials VI: Health Policy and Advocacy- Articulate change within organizational structures of various health care delivery systems to impact policy, financing and access to quality health care.
Essentials VII: Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes- Lead and coordinate interdisciplinary teams across care environments to reduce barriers, facilitate access to care and improve health outcomes.