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Student Learning Outcomes

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

Graduates of the program are expected to:

  1. Use relationship-centered nursing leadership to improve health care and the health status and outcomes of individuals.
  2. Engage with communities of practice to frame problems, design and implement evidence-based interventions and evaluate outcomes.
  3. Integrate the needs of diverse societies in the design, delivery and evaluation of health services in complex systems.
  4. Transform clinical practice through reflection, action inquiry, strategic resource management, information technology and/or knowledge-based resources.
  5. Translate knowledge for application to the delivery of advanced nursing practice.
  6. Implement changes based on evaluation of health systems, health policy and nursing science in response to social, political, economic and ethical issues.
  7. Evaluate the impact of change on complex health systems including individuals and populations.
Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Science (PhD)

Graduates of the program are expected to:

  1. Synthesize knowledge from nursing as well as biological and behavioral sciences to investigate health phenomena.
  2. Utilize analytical and empirical methods to extend nursing knowledge and scholarship.
  3. Conduct and communicate Independent research that advances the body of scientific knowledge.
  4. Defend the social significance of the expanded knowledge base of nursing.
  5. Interpret nursing science within an inter-disciplinary context.

Last updated: February, 2012