Master of Science in Nursing with an Emphasis in Nursing Education

Informatics and Healthcare Technologies -
Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.

• Describe the various information and communication technology tools used in the care of patients,communities, and populations.
• Use information and communication technology to gather data, create information, and generateknowledge.
• Use information and communication technologies and informatics processes to deliver safe nursing care to populations served in a variety of settings.
• Use information and communication technology to support documentation of care and communication among providers, patients, and all system levels.
• Use information and communication technologies in accordance with ethical, legal, professional, and regulatory standards, and workplace policies in the delivery of care.

Professionalism -
Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.

• Demonstrate an ethical comportment in one’s practice reflective of nursing’s mission to society.
• Employ participatory approach to nursing care.
• Demonstrate accountability to the individual, society, and the profession.
• Comply with relevant laws, policies, and regulations.
• Demonstrate the professional identity of nursing.
• Integrate access, connection, and engagement as core to one’s professional identity.

Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development -
Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.

• Demonstrate a commitment to personal health and well-being.
• Demonstrate a spirit of inquiry that fosters flexibility and professional maturity.
• Develop capacity for leadership.