Graduate: MSN Expected Program Outcomes

• Synthesize, integrate, translate, and apply new and prior learning for clinical decision-making, policy development, and healthcare leadership.
• Promote positive relationships to facilitate ethical person-centered care built on evidence and to advance nursing practice.
• Lead collaborative team activities to analyze population health perspectives in provision of safe, person-centered care to nurture optimal health outcomes for diverse populations.
• Conduct scholarly inquiry through synthesis of best research and evidence to inform nursing practice, education, policy, and leadership for improving and transforming healthcare.
• Lead and perform quality improvement initiatives that minimize risk of harm to patients and providers, and ensure high reliability healthcare to promote a culture of safety at individual and systems levels.
• Lead and facilitate a culture of inter-professional practice using team dynamics and leadership principles.
• Coordinate resources within complex healthcare systems to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
• Explore information and communication technologies to drive care decision making.
• Analyze one’s own professional identity through adherence to profession standards of practice and code of ethics to model professional nursing.
• Examine self-reflection feedback to encourage well-being and resilience promoting the acquisition and assertion of leadership.
• Create culturally proficient care strategies to support diverse needs for individuals’ and families in the U.S. - Mexico border region.