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:
- Facilitate learning effectively
- Facilitate Learner Development and Socialization
- Use Assessment and Evaluation Strategies
- Participate in Curriculum Design and Evaluation of Program Outcomes
- Function as a Change Agent and Leader
- Pursue Continuous Quality Improvement in the Nurse Educator Role
- Engage in Scholarship
- 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:
- Synthesize knowledge of system design, selection, implementation, and evaluation of information systems for nursing care delivery, including human factors and organizational change management.
- 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.
- Utilize standardized languages for storage and retrieval of healthcare information and nursing data.
- Integrate principles of computer science, information science, cognitive and decision sciences, and nursing science within computerized decision support systems
- Demonstrate project management skills for implementation of technological solutions to nursing and healthcare problems.
- Develop policies to safeguard access to health information and to ensure information security, accessibility, and quality.
- Analyze the social and ethical issues related to computerized healthcare information delivery.