Graduate Programs
Student Learning Outcomes
Doctorate Programs
Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.)
Graduates of the program are expected to:
- Use relationship-centered nursing leadership to improve health care and the health status and outcomes of individuals.
- Engage with communities of practice to frame problems, design and implement evidence-based interventions and evaluate outcomes.
- Integrate the needs of diverse societies in the design, delivery and evaluation of health services in complex systems.
- Transform clinical practice through reflection, action inquiry, strategic resource management, information technology and/or knowledge-based resources.
- Translate knowledge for application to the delivery of advanced nursing practice.
- Implement changes based on evaluation of health systems, health policy and nursing science in response to social, political, economic and ethical issues.
- Evaluate the impact of change on complex health systems including individuals and populations.
Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Science (Ph.D.)
Graduates of the program are expected to:
- Synthesize knowledge from nursing as well as biological and behavioral sciences to investigate health phenomena
- Utilize analytical and empirical methods to extend nursing knowledge and scholarship
- Conduct and communicate Independent research that advances the body of scientific knowledge
- Defend the social significance of the expanded knowledge base of nursing
- Interpret nursing science within an inter-disciplinary context