As a graduate, you will be prepared to reliably demonstrate the ability to:

1. Explore and critique management theories, leadership styles and decision-making processes.

2. Identify and resolve team issues using effective interpersonal and problem-solving skills.

3. Integrate advanced nursing theory, principles and concepts into competent nursing practice at the level of a nursing unit and more broadly, at the level of the health-care institution/system.

4. Integrate management theory, principles and concepts into competent nursing practice at the level of a nursing unit and more broadly, at the level of the health-care institution/system.

5. Develop, implement and evaluate performance review and quality assurance processes.

6. Participate in the planning, delivery and evaluation of employee recruitment, orientation and development in a health-care setting.

7. Critically examine the impact of system design and public policy on client care and on the administration of healthcare organizations.

8. Justify decisions, plans and concepts using ethical principles.

9. Identify and analyze current social, cultural, environmental, political and economic issues affecting the practice of nursing.

As a graduate, you will be prepared to reliably demonstrate the ability to:

1. Practice chronic disease management in a safe and ethical manner by complying with Canadian health-care system regulations and organizational policies.

2. Apply the concepts of chronic disease management and evidence-based practices to ensure the delivery of comprehensive care to patients living with a chronic disease.

3. Use tools, strategies and available resources to assess the condition of patients and respond to environmental, physical and psychosocial stress or affecting self and others.

4. Design individualized plans to provide patients with optimal person-centred and family-centred care.

5. Plan interventions to modify patients’ behaviours and lifestyles to support patients in self-managing their chronic disease.

6. Communicate chronic disease self-management plans for patients by collaborating with members of the interprofessional health-care team and the wider health-care community.

7. Evaluate chronic disease interventions and patient outcomes to support modification of individualized plans.

8. Disseminate chronic disease management information for the promotion of health, wellness, disease prevention and inclusive-community building to a variety of audiences.

9. Engage in ongoing professional development to enhance the practice of patient care and chronic disease management.