College Catalog 2025-2026

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Learning Outcomes for Nursing Programs

BSN Program

BSN Program Learning Outcomes based on 2021 AACN Essentials

  1. Integrate nursing and foundational knowledge from other disciplines into professional nursing practice. (Domain 1)
  2. Deliver person-centered care across diverse sociocultural backgrounds. (Domain 2)
  3. Collaborate with community stakeholders to engage in health promotion and disease prevention to support equitable population health outcomes. (Domain 3)
  4. Implement evidence-based knowledge to improve nursing practice. (Domain 4)
  5. Integrate principles of safe, quality, and equitable care within complex systems to proactively coordinate resources throughout the continuum of care. (Domain 5 and 7)
  6. Collaborate across professions with team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize the healthcare experience. (Domain 6)
  7. Use current healthcare information and technology to deliver effective nursing care. (Domain 8)
  8. Exemplify a sustainable professional identity that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values. (Domain 9)
  9. Demonstrate a commitment to life-long learning by fostering personal, professional, and leadership development. (Domain 10)

 

MSN Program

MSN Program Learning Outcomes based on 2021 AACN Essentials

  1. Integrate, translate, and apply scientific underpinnings to improve nursing practice, clinical judgement and patient outcomes within the four spheres of care. (Domain 1, 4)
  2. Design, implement, and evaluate safe, evidence-based, person-centered, compassionate care. (Domain: 2, 4, 5)
  3. Influence population health, including improvements in health care policy, utilizing effective collaboration and advocacy strategies to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion. (Domain 3, 4, 6)
  4. Employ nursing scholarship to advance nursing practice, optimize care, address health inequities, and take actions that target high priority social determinants of health. (Domain 4) 
  5. Apply principles of quality improvement, ethics, and safety at both the individual and systems levels. (Domain 5)
  6. Effectively communicate and collaborate with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes. (Domain 6)
  7. Design innovative strategies that promote the provision of safe, cost-effective, equitable care to diverse patient populations across complex healthcare systems. (Domain 7)
  8. Utilize information systems, communication technology, and informatics to improve and transform healthcare systems. (Domain 8)
  9. Demonstrate professionalism, including participation in activities that support nursing’s professional identity, accountability, ethical principles, and values. (Domain 9)
  10. Participate in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, well–being, lifelong learning, competence, and leadership. (Domain 10)

 

Post-MSN Program

Post-MSN Program Learning Outcomes based on 2021 AACN Essentials

  1. Integrate, translate, and apply scientific underpinnings to improve nursing practice, clinical judgement and patient outcomes within the four spheres of care. (Domain 1, 4)
  2. Design, implement, and evaluate safe, evidence-based, person-centered, compassionate care. (Domain: 2, 4, 5)
  3. Influence population health, including improvements in health care policy, utilizing effective collaboration and advocacy strategies to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion. (Domain 3, 4, 6)
  4. Employ nursing scholarship to advance nursing practice, optimize care, address health inequities, and take actions that target high priority social determinants of health. (Domain 4) 
  5. Apply principles of quality improvement, ethics, and safety at both the individual and systems levels. (Domain 5)
  6. Effectively communicate and collaborate with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes. (Domain 6)
  7. Design innovative strategies that promote the provision of safe, cost-effective, equitable care to diverse patient populations across complex healthcare systems. (Domain 7)
  8. Utilize information systems, communication technology, and informatics to improve and transform healthcare systems. (Domain 8)
  9. Demonstrate professionalism, including participation in activities that support nursing’s professional identity, accountability, ethical principles, and values. (Domain 9)
  10. Participate in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, well–being, lifelong learning, competence, and leadership. (Domain 10)

 

DNP Program

DNP Program Learning Outcomes based on 2021 AACN Essentials

Upon successful completion of the DNP program, the graduate will be able to:

  1. Integrate, translate and apply scientific underpinnings to improve nursing practice, clinical judgement and patient outcomes within the four spheres of care. (Domain 1)
  2. Design, implement and evaluate safe, evidence-based, person-centered, compassionate care. (Domain 2)
  3. Influence population health, including improvements in health care policy, utilizing effective collaboration and advocacy strategies to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion. (Domain 3)
  4. Employ nursing scholarship to advance nursing practice, optimize care, address health inequities and take actions that target high priority social determinants of health. (Domain 4) 
  5. Apply principles of quality improvement, ethics and safety at both the individual and systems levels. (Domain 5)
  6. Effectively communicate and collaborate with care team members, patients, families, communities and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience and strengthen outcomes. (Domain 6)
  7. Lead innovative strategies that promote the provision of safe, cost-effective, equitable care to diverse patient populations across complex healthcare systems. (Domain 7) 
  8. Utilize information systems, communication technology and informatics to improve and transform healthcare systems. (Domain 8)
  9. Demonstrate professionalism, including participation in activities that support nursing’s professional identity, accountability, ethical principles and values. (Domain 9)
  10. Participate in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, well–being, lifelong learning, competence and leadership.  (Domain 10)
 

PhD Program

PhD Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the PhD program, the graduate will provide leadership as a practice scientist by:

  1. Generate and disseminate new knowledge by developing and evaluating interventions to improve health outcomes.
  2. Integrate culturally competent and ethically responsible research practices as a response to health disparities and identified needs.
  3. Lead and promote interdisciplinary teams to conduct health-related translational research and evidence-based practice.
  4. Communicate nursing research findings to influence health policy decision-making and to promote health equities.
  5. Conduct scholarly activities through research, teaching, mentoring and service to support the discipline and practice of nursing.
  6. Provide leadership in advancing the profession through discovery, application and integration of nursing science.