Masters Direct Entry Program For Non-Nurses

MDE Outcomes

MDE students will demonstrate:

  • Proficiency in the provision of evidence-based nursing care, with an emphasis on care coordination and religion/cultural care to patients along the wellness/illness continuum and across all care settings.
  • Readiness for professional nurse licensure examination through achieving benchmarks and remediating individual performance to curriculum standards in classroom and nationally normed standardized examinations.
  • Proficiency in the provision of evidence-based nursing care with an emphasis on care coordination and assume a leadership role within health care settings.

Outcome 1

Integrate concepts from the liberal arts, biopsychosocial, epidemiological, genomics, and nursing sciences to deliver evidence-based person-centered care.

Outcome 2

Design and implement a person-centered, holistic, and compassionate plan of care based on social determinants of health and concepts of social justice, and health equity.

Outcome 3

Collaborate with stakeholders to implement strategies for health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention to improve population health outcomes.

Outcome 4

Evaluate, apply, and disseminate evidence to improve nursing practice.

Outcome 5

Synthesize quality science methods and measures, and propose interdisciplinary innovations to enhance patient safety and quality outcomes. 

Outcome 6

Communicate and collaborate effectively with interprofessional team, patients, families, and communities to optimize outcomes and enhance the delivery of care.

Outcome 7

Integrate basic knowledge of health care policy, finance, and regulatory environments on a local, state, national and global level, and implement leadership skills to provide quality equitable care to populations.

Outcome 8

Apply technologies to inform and manage complex decision-making and coordination of care to improve healthcare quality and outcomes.

Outcome 9

Develop a professional identity that assimilates and demonstrates nursing values of altruism, human dignity, professional accountability, and the ethical mandate for health justice.

Outcome 10

Engage in self-reflection and activities to nurture personal health and well-being, and integrate life-long learning into evidence-based nursing practice and leadership development.