Nursing Student Learning Outcomes

As a graduate of Minnesota State Moorhead’s Nursing program, you will have student learning outcomes to integrate concepts from the arts, humanities and sciences as the basis for critical thinking and decision making in the art and science of nursing.

  1. Integrate interdisciplinary knowledge founded in the liberal arts and natural and social sciences as the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in professional nursing practice.
  2. Support holistic person-centered care focusing on the individual within multiple contexts, including families, communities, societal groups, and populations, regardless of specialty or functional area.
  3. Examine population health in relation to wellness/disease prevention, chronic disease management, regenerative/restorative care, and hospice/palliative care for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
  4. Integrate evidence-based nursing knowledge to improve nursing practice and transform healthcare.
  5. Analyze principles of quality and safety to improve health outcomes through system effectiveness and individual performance.
  6. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and key stakeholders for the improvement of equitable health outcomes.
  7. Identify resources within complex healthcare systems that contribute to safe, quality, and equitable care of diverse populations.
  8. Utilize information/communication technologies and informatics processes to manage and improve the delivery of healthcare services.
  9. Formulate a sustainable professional nursing identity that encompasses nursing’s characteristics and values.
  10. Participate in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, well-being, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.