Program Outcomes
At the completion of the Masters degree in Nursing Administration program, the graduate will:
- Synthesize knowledge from nursing and related sciences to fully analyze, design, implement, and evaluate nursing care.
- Select and implement appropriate advanced leadership skills and critical decision making in the provision of health care team coordination, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery and outcomes.
- Appraise and recommend quality improvement methods, tools, performance measures, and standards to ensure patient safety within an organization.
- Integrate theory, evidence, clinical judgment, research, and interprofessional perspectives to improve patient outcomes.
- Analyze current and emerging health care information systems and patient care technology to optimize patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and quality health outcomes.
- Interpret the effect of legal and regulatory processes, and ethical principles on nursing practice, health care delivery, and quality patient outcomes.
- Collaborate directly with other health care professionals to improve patient and population health outcomes.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion and disease prevention interventions that affect individual and population-based health outcomes.
- Synthesize leadership theories and evidenced-based knowledge in leading the health care team in the delivery of quality patient care.