Master of Science in Nursing Program Competencies
MSN-Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post-Master Certificate
Knowledge of practice
- The nurse practitioner integrates, translates, and applies established and evolving scientific knowledge from diverse sources as the basis for ethical clinical judgement, innovation, and diagnostic reasonin.
PERSON-CENTERED CARE
- The nurse practitioner uses evidence-based and best practices to design, manage, and evaluate comprehensive person-centered that is within the regulatory and educational scope of practice. Fundamental to person-centered care is respect for diversity, differences, preferences, values, needs, resources and dterminates of health unique to the individuals.
population health
- The nurse practitioner partners, across the care continuum with public health, healthcare systems, community, academic community, governmental, and other enttities to integrate foundational NP knowledge into culturally competent practices to increase health promotion and disease prevention strategies in effect the care of populations.
Practice scholarship and translational sciences
- The nurse practitioner generates, appraises synthesizes, translates, integrates, and disseminates knowledge to improve person-centererd health and systems of care.
QUALITY AND SAFETY
- the nurse practitioner untilizes knowledge and principles of translatinal and improvement science methodologies to improve quality and safety for providers, patients, populations, and systems of care.
Interprofesional collaboration in practice
- The nurse practitioner collaborates with the interprofessional team to provide care through meaningful communication and active participation in person-centered and population-centered care.
HEALTH SYSTEMS
- The nurse practitioner demonstrates organizational and systmes leadership to improve healthcare outcome.
TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION LITERACY
- The nurse practitioner envisions, apprasies, and utilizes informatics and healthcare technologies to deliver care.
PROFESSIONAL ACUMEN
- The nurse practitioner demonstrates that attributes and perspective of the nurisng profession and adherence to ethical principles while functioning as a committed equal partner of the interprofessional health care team.
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
- The nurse practitioner participates in professional and personal growth activities to develop a sustainable preogression toward professional and interpersonal maturity, improved resilience, and robust leadership capacity.
MSN-Nursing Administration
Communication and Relationship Building
- Develop oral and written presentation skills for a diverse audience on matters pertaining to nursing, health care, and organizational issues.
- Can apply learned principles on conflict management and resolution at the healthcare workplace.
Knowledge of the healthcare environment
- Understands that written organization clinical policies and processes and procedures are reviewed and updated in accordance with evidence-based practice.
- Understands the importance of ensuring compliance with regulatory agencies such as Joint Commission, CMS and state's board of nursing.
Leadership
- Can critically analyze organizational issues after review of evidence.
Business Skills
- Can articulate business models of health care organizations and fundamental concepts of economics.
- Can educate patient care team members on financial implications of patient care decisions.
- Can manage financial resources by developing business plans.
