Overview: Learning Outcomes

Knowledge of Nursing Practice: Utilize established and evolving disciplinary knowledge and ways of knowing, from a variety of disciplines including liberal arts and natural and social sciences to inform clinical judgement and innovative practice (AACN Essential 1).

Person-Centered Care: Implement person centered care that is holistic, individualized, and reflects an understanding of human growth and development, the determinants of health, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical and nursing management across the spheres of care (AACN Essential 2).

Population Health: Create action plans, interventions and influence policies, towards health equity and improved health spanning the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations (AACN Essential 3).  

Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline: Synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate knowledge to improve health and transform health care (AACN Essential 4).

Quality and Safety: Employ quality care, established and emerging principles of safety, and improve science through both system effectiveness and individual performance (AACN Essential 5).   

Interprofessional Partnerships: Engage in professional collaboration across disciplines and with other stakeholders including patients, families, and communities, to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes that recognize the unique contribution of all members (AACN Essential 6).

Systems-Based Practice: Coordinate resources to provide cost effective, safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations within complex systems of health care (AACN Essential 7).  

Informatics and Healthcare Technologies: Utilize patient care technologies, information systems, and communication devices to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high‐ quality, and efficient healthcare services (AACN Essential 8).

Professionalism: Cultivate and sustain a professional identity through the acquisition of expertise and assertion of leadership that reflects professional characteristics and values (AACN Essential 9).

Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development: Foster personal health, resilience, well‐being, self-awareness, and a capacity to adapt to ambiguity and change (AACN Essential 10).  

Demonstrate characteristics of a mindful and present leader proficient in asserting influence, and power in professional and personal contexts (AACN Essential 11).