Program Outcomes
SON DNP Program Outcomes
Upon completion of the SON DNP program the student will demonstrate the ability to:
PO 1: Critically seek, Integrate, and appraise knowledge from nursing and other disciplines, translate and apply this knowledge in developing, and evaluating, implementing, and disseminating new practice approaches to improve health and transform health care. (D1, D4)
PO 2: Provide compassionate, holistic, evidence-based care to individuals and populations utilizing epidemiological, biostatistical, environmental, and other scientific data for the improvement of health outcomes. (D2, D 3)
PO 3: Employ individual, organizational, and systems leadership competencies to address current and future health, safety, and other issues, to enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through the use of improvement science. (D5)
PO 4: Promote intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, analyze and/or influence proposals for health policy, and the affected communities (D6)
PO 5: Respond to and lead effective system change within complex systems of health care through the coordination of resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations. (D7)
PO 6: Utilize Information and communication technologies and informatic processes to provide high-quality care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand professional knowledge, and improve health care in accordance with best-practice and regulatory standards. (D8)
PO 7: Formulate and cultivate a sustainable professional nursing identity and accountability that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values through practice in a specialized advanced nursing role. Participate in self-reflection and foster personal health, well-being, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise through therapeutic intervention, evidence-based evaluation, and assertion of leadership. (D9, 10)
Approved February 13, 2024