Family Nurse Practitioner, MSN

Student learning outcomes for this program are:

• Demonstrate clinical reasoning in making holistic advanced practice clinical judgments for safe and quality nursing care relevant to comprehensive client problems encountered in primary care settings.
• Integrate evidence-based clinical prevention and population care for aggregates and identified populations encountered in primary care.
• Implement research findings and evidence-based best practices in the provision of advanced practice nursing to enhance safety and quality in care.
• Analyze disparities in knowledge or evidence, articulate research questions, and evaluate outcomes of advanced practice nursing for refinement of safety and quality.
• Demonstrate accountability for client and systems quality outcomes, acting as a change agent, and client advocate.
• Analyze political, legal and ethical influences in health care systems that affect health policy and economics.
• Communicate and collaborate with clients, families and health team members for client and system quality outcomes, and to foster supportive personal and professional growth.
• Demonstrate commitment to Christian principles, professional ethics, and standards of advanced practice to provide culturally competent, patient-centered care to clients and families in local and global communities.