MS Program Expected Student Learning Outcomes

Mission

M.S. Graduates are prepared to ensure better care, better health, and lower costs through their knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Outcomes

• Demonstrate competence and caring in the advanced professional nurse role to serve Wyoming, the region, and the world in urban, rural, and frontier health care settings as a provider, leader, and/or educator in the health care system.
• Transform rural health through leadership, service, and clinical scholarship that reflects an interconnected and comprehensive global health perspective.
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of nursing and other sciences and humanities and integrates this knowledge to manage and improve health care across settings
• Synthesize broad organizational, financial, economic, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts from nursing and other sciences to address population health. 
• Engage in scholarly inquiry and evidence-based practice to lead change for quality outcomes and implement safe health care to diverse populations in a variety of settings.

 

CORE CONCEPTS

• Transformation:

Transformation includes learning, education, leadership, and nursing as a whole; engaging creativity with theory and evidence-based practice to result in critical reflection and cognitive flexibility. 

• Rurality/Frontier

Practice in a low population area where resources and/or access to care are limited and be able to innovate accordingly.

• Service

Providing advanced practice nursing care and services to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations includes altruism, leadership, decision-making, cooperation, education, listening, problem-solving, person-centered care, fidelity, advocacy, ethical behavior, and practice.

• Comprehensive Global healthcare system perspective

An interconnected and comprehensive global health care system perspective incorporating the following attributes: advocacy, altruism, creativity, ethical conduct, effective communication skills, leadership, problem-solving skills, professionalism, and scholarship. 

• Clinical Scholarship

Activities that systematically advance nursing science, including its teaching, research, and practice through rigorous inquiry that 1) is significant to the profession, 2) is creative, 3) can be documented, 4) can be replicated or elaborated, and 5) can be peer-reviewed through various methods and includes discovery, teaching, practice, and integration.  

 

 Updated 2/11/2022