BSN PROGRAM OUTCOMES MSN PROGRAM OUTCOMES
The WGU Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing Program Graduate Will: The WGU Master’s Degree in Nursing Program Graduate Will: 1. Communicate effectively in oral, written, interpersonal and electronic
modes. 1. Employ appropriate patient-‐ care technologies and information management
strategies to lead change and improve quality care outcomes. 2. Use clinical reasoning to provide safe, quality, nursing care based on the
best available evidence and ethical principles. 2. Integrates clinical reasoning with organizational, patient-‐centered, culturally
appropriate strategies to plan, deliver, and evaluate evidence-‐based practice. 3. Assume accountability for providing and ensuring safe, efficient, quality
care congruent with ethical, professional and legal standards. 3. Design innovative nursing practices to impact quality outcomes for individuals,
populations, and systems congruent with ethical, professional and legal standards. 4. Synthesize theoretical, clinical and empirical knowledge from nursing,
scientific, community and humanistic disciplines within the practice of nursing. Synthesizes theoretical and empirical knowledge drawing from the arts and sciences to understand the human experience as a social advocate, and professional nurse.
4. Assemble scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings.
5. Provide compassionate, patient-‐centered care to individuals, families, and communities from a variety of cultures across the lifespan.
5. Utilize applied research outcomes within the practice setting, navigating and integrating care services across healthcare systems.
6. Apply leadership and education skills to engage others in creating and promoting a healing environment for continued self-‐improvement.
6. Design organization and leadership systems that promote high quality patient-‐care delivery and advance life-‐long learning.
7. Engage in inter-‐professional collaboration to improve safety and quality of healthcare.
7. Construct interprofessional teams to communicate, coordinate, collaborate and consult with other health professionals to advance a culture of excellence.
8. Incorporate knowledge of genomics and genethics into the care of patients, families and communities.
8. Integrate scientific knowledge including that from genetics and genethics in the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings and populations.
9. Use information technology to communicate, mitigate error and make decisions related to the provision of patient care and support incorporation of nursing knowledge in the development of patient care technology.
9. Provide oversight and guidance in the integration of technology to manage care, identify performance measures and standards that improve quality and safety outcomes.