College of Nursing
Outcome 1
BSN
Integrate nursing knowledge and clinical judgment, incorporating insights from other disciplines, such as liberal arts, natural sciences, and social sciences, to influence and impact nursing practice.
MSN
Synthesize and translate nursing knowledge, and clinical judgment, incorporating insights such as liberal arts, natural sciences, and social sciences, to influence within the advanced nursing practice specialty.
AACN Essentials Domain 1:
Knowledge for Nursing Practice; Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences.
HSC Values
Outcome 2
BSN
Assess, deliver, and evaluate holistic person-centered care that is respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate, promoting access for all.
MSN
Lead, analyze, and synthesize the implementation of holistic person-centered care that is respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate, promoting access for all.
AACN Essentials Domain 2:
Person Centered Care; Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate.
HSC Values
Outcome 3
BSN
Provide population and global health across all spheres of care, through partnerships with communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and other diverse groups for the improvement of equitable outcomes.
MSN
Advance population and global health initiatives, spanning from wellness and prevention to disease management, through partnerships with communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and other diverse groups for the improvement of equitable outcomes.
AACN Essentials Domain 3:
Population Health; Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
HSC Values
Outcome 4
BSN
Synthesize, apply, and disseminate nursing scholarship to improve health care outcomes.
MSN
Translate, apply, and disseminate nursing scholarship to improve health care outcomes and transform healthcare within the scope of the advanced nursing practice specialty.
AACN Essential Domains 4:
Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline; The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.
HSC Values
Outcome 5
BSN
Advocate for and utilize established and emerging safety principles to enhance quality and mitigate risk of harm to patients and providers through both individual performance and system effectiveness.
MSN
Coordinate the implementation of initiatives to advance safety principles that enhance quality and mitigate risk of harm to patients and providers through both individual performance and system effectiveness.
AACN Essentials Domain 5:
Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline; The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.
HSC Values
Outcome 6
BSN
Demonstrate core professional nursing values and intentional collaboration across professions with care team members, through accountability and shared decision making with patients, families, and communities to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and improve outcomes.
MSN
Model and facilitate core professional nursing values and intentional collaboration across professions with care team members, through accountability and shared decision making with patients, families, and communities to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and improve outcomes.
AACN Essentials Domain 6:
Interprofessional Partnerships; Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
HSC Values
Outcome 7
BSN
Coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, cost-effective and equitable care within complex health systems.
MSN
Design and adapt innovative strategies to provide safe, quality, cost-effective and equitable care within complex health systems.
AACN Essentials Domain 7:
Systems-Based Practice; Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe quality and equitable care to diverse populations.
HSC Values
Outcome 8
BSN
Utilize informatics and healthcare technologies to compile data, communicate between professionals, inform decision making, and optimize the delivery of safe, high-quality, efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards in a variety of settings.
MSN
Utilize informatics and healthcare technologies to generate, analyze, and integrate data, communicate between professionals, inform decision making, and optimize the delivery of safe, high-quality, efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards in a variety of settings.
AACN Essentials Domain 8:
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.
HSC Values
Outcome 9
BSN
Cultivate and exhibit a sustainable professional identity that includes accountability, integrity, curiosity, ethical practice, courage, civility, justice, advocacy, and a sense of oneself that reflect nursing’s characteristics and values.
MSN
Model a sustainable professional identify that includes accountability, integrity, curiosity, ethical practice, courage, civility, justice, advocacy, and a sense of oneself that reflect nursing’s characteristics and values through mentorship of others as an advanced nursing practice specialist.
AACN Essentials Domain 9:
Professionalism; Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment, that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
HSC Values
Outcome 10
BSN
Practice self-reflection and participate in activities that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, contribute to career-long learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the development of leadership capacity.
MSN
Practice self-reflection and prioritize activities that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, contribute to career-long learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the development of leadership capacity at the advanced nursing practice specialty level.
AACN Essentials Domain 10:
Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development; Participation in activities and self-reflection that fosters personal health, resilience, and well-being; contributes to lifelong learning; and supports the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.
HSC Values
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