Graduate Programs

Student Learning Outcomes

Graduate Certificates

Certificate Program in Nurse Teaching

All participants who complete the nurse teaching certificate program are expected to achieve the following outcomes:

  1. Facilitate learning effectively
  2. Facilitate Learner Development and Socialization
  3. Use Assessment and Evaluation Strategies
  4. Participate in Curriculum Design and Evaluation of Program Outcomes
  5. Function as a Change Agent and Leader
  6. Pursue Continuous Quality Improvement in the Nurse Educator Role
  7. Engage in Scholarship
  8. Function within the Educational Environment
Certificate Program in Nursing Informatics

The goal of the certificate in nursing informatics is to prepare graduates with knowledge and skills to enhance patient-care delivery, promote consumer health, utilize nursing research, and provide education through information technology. All participants who complete the nursing informatics certificate program are expected to achieve the following outcomes:

  1. Synthesize knowledge of system design, selection, implementation, and evaluation of information systems for nursing care delivery, including human factors and organizational change management.
  2. Manage structured and unstructured data for representing nursing knowledge to inform clinical and administrative decision making, monitor quality and effectiveness of nursing care, and support evidence-based nursing practice.
  3. Utilize standardized languages for storage and retrieval of healthcare information and nursing data.
  4. Integrate principles of computer science, information science, cognitive and decision sciences, and nursing science within computerized decision support systems
  5. Demonstrate project management skills for implementation of technological solutions to nursing and healthcare problems.
  6. Develop policies to safeguard access to health information and to ensure information security, accessibility, and quality.
  7. Analyze the social and ethical issues related to computerized healthcare information delivery.