MSN Student Profile
After completing the MSN program the graduate will be prepared to demonstrate the following competencies, in addition to other specific competencies according to selected specialty and role:
- Provides direct and indirect care components in nursing practice interventions recognizing the human being as a child of God and demonstrating advanced level of understanding of nursing and relevant sciences.
- Integrates scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, and quality improvement for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings.
- Recognizes that organizational and systems leadership are critical to the promotion of high quality and safe patient care.
- Demonstrates leadership skills that emphasize spiritual and ethical values and critical decision-making, with a focus on effective working relationships from a systems perspective.
- Demonstrates to be articulate in the methods, tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality; and applies quality and excellence principles within an organization.
- Applies research outcomes within the practice setting, resolves practice problems, works as a change agent and disseminates results.
- Utilizes patient-care technologies to deliver and enhance care and uses communication technologies to integrate and coordinate care.
- Intervenes at the systems level through the policy development process and employs advocacy strategies to influence health and health care.
- Applies and integrates organizational concepts, centered on culturally-appropriate planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinical prevention and services to individuals, families, and aggregates/identified populations.