Master of Science in Nursing - Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Concentration

Program Learning Outcomes

“Expected student learning outcomes specify the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes students are expected to attain in courses or in a program.” Page 69. Resource Manual for the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), 2018.

1. Implement and evaluate theoretical and empirical knowledge from the natural and social sciences, Christian faith, and nursing as a source of clinical reasoning and decision making to provide holistic care in advanced nursing practice specialties.
2. Promote advanced nursing practice specialty care that is person-centered, framed in Christian values, holistic, individualized, equitable, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and culturally sensitive.
3. Appraise population healthcare to address disparities and social determinants of health, through wellness promotion, and disease prevention and management, collaborating with community partners, healthcare systems, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
4. Synthesize and evaluate nursing knowledge through the application of evidence-based practice to improve quality of care and patient outcomes.
5. Implement principles of safety as core values of advanced nursing practice specialties to enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Facilitate interprofessional communication and collaboration with care team members, patients, families, communities, and others to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and improve outcomes.
7. Apply organizational systems leadership principles within advanced nursing practice specialties to deliver cost-effective, safe, high-quality, and equitable care to diverse populations.
8. Implement and evaluate healthcare technologies to gather and interpret data, inform diagnostic reasoning, develop treatment plans and provide safe, high-quality and efficient healthcare in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
9. Demonstrate and foster professional identity that encompasses Christian values, moral courage, accountability, integrity, a collaborative disposition, and ethical comportment reflective of nursing’s characteristics and values.
10. Implement strategies to equip others and foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, contributing to lifelong learning, and supporting the development of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.

Required Courses

• NUR 5013 - Scientific and Philosophical Foundations of Nursing Practice 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 5023 - Advanced Nursing Research 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 5113 - Leadership in Organizations and Systems 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 5223 - Faith and Science 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 6003 - Advanced Pathophysiology 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 6013 - Healthcare Technology and Quality Improvement 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 6103 - Advanced Pharmacology 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 6104 - Advanced Health Assessment & Diagnostic Reasoning 4 Credit Hours
• NUR 6202 - Psychopharmacology Across the Lifespan 2 Credit Hours
• NUR 6212 - Advanced Psychopathological Disorders and Assessment Strategies 2 Credit Hours
• NUR 7333 - Advanced Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Across the Lifespan 1: Adolescents and Children 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 7353 - Advanced Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Across the Lifespan 1: Adolescents and Children: Clinical 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 8153 - APRN Clinical Immersion 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 8203 - Advanced Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Across the Lifespan 2: Adult and Older Adult 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 8254 - Advanced Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Across the Lifespan 2: Adult and Older Adult: Clinical 4 Credit Hours