Student Learning Outcomes for Advanced Nursing Practice

Based on the foundational elements, including the domains, concepts and spheres of nursing care described in The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (AACN, 2021).

At the end of the program, the student will be able to: 

• SLO 1: Translate into action knowledge from the philosophical and theoretical traditions of nursing science and other disciplinary perspectives to facilitate the ethical integration of evidence-based practice to advance nursing scholarship. (AACN Domains 1 & 4)
• SLO 2: Lead collaboratively within the interprofessional team to develop and evaluate plans of care with evidence-based, person-centered care principles promoting quality and safety outcomes. (AACN Domains 2, 5, & 6)
• SLO 3: Collaborate with strategic partners to implement health policy while advocating for equitable and sustainable population health care. (Domain 3)
• SLO 4: Integrate complex systems-based practice to develop innovative and evidence supported equitable solutions to improve health outcomes across the lifespan of diverse populations. (Domain 7)
• SLO 5: Apply best practices of informatics and communication technologies in diverse care settings to collect, analyze and synthesize data to promote quality and safe health care outcomes. (Domain 8)
• SLO 6: Demonstrate professional behaviors reflecting current regulations, policies and practice integrating professional concepts including ethics, compassion, diversity, equity and inclusion. (Domain 9)
• SLO 7: Model leadership within the nursing profession that embraces self-care, a spirit of inquiry, advocacy, change, mentorship and service to others. (Domain 10) 

Domains = AACN The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021)