Outcomes

Student Goals and Outcomes

Goal:

The Masters in Nursing at Eastern Mennonite University, with tracks in Leadership and Management and Leadership and School Nursing, prepares nurse leaders to: utilize their skills and knowledge to foster a vision of justice, compassion, humility, love and mercy in their work with all levels of partners within the complex systems in which they lead and serve so that these organizations become safe centers of healing. 

MSN Objectives/Outcomes:

Based on the above goal, EMU Masters in Nursing graduates are prepared to:

1. Integrate scientific findings from nursing, education, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings and populations. (ME-1)
2. Lead systems and organizations by means of just, culturally competent, ethical and critical decision-making, effective working relationships, and a systems-perspective. (ME-2)
3. Articulate methods, tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality, and apply quality principles within an organization. (ME-3)
4. Apply research outcomes within the practice setting, resolve practice problems, work as a change agent, and disseminate results. (ME-4)
5. Use patient-care technologies to deliver and enhance care and use communication technologies to integrate and coordinate care. (ME-5)
6. Intervene at the system level through the policy development process and employ advocacy strategies to influence health and health care. (ME-6)
7. Communicate, collaborate, and consult with other health or other professionals to manage and coordinate care as a member and leader of interprofessional teams. (ME-7)
8. Apply and integrate broad, organizational, client-centered, just, and culturally appropriate concepts in the planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinical prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and aggregates/identified populations. (ME-8)
9. Integrate an advanced level of understanding of nursing and related sciences into practice, broadly defined as any form of nursing intervention (direct or indirect) that influences healthcare outcomes for individuals, populations, or systems. (ME-9)
10. Act on a caring philosophy of nursing that incorporates the following:
    1.  A holistic view of persons, health, and environment;
    2. significant processes, functions, and  responsibilities of  professional nursing;
    3. A Christian approach to nursing (empowerment, reconciliation, partnership, presence, grace, justice, service, agape love and advocacy).

Program Goals and Outcomes

Goal:

The Masters in Nursing at Eastern Mennonite University, with concentrations in Leadership and Management and Leadership and School Nursing, prepares nurse leaders to: utilize their skills and knowledge to foster a vision of justice, compassion, humility, love and mercy in their work with all levels of partners within the complex systems in which they lead and serve so that these organizations become safe centers of healing. 

MSN Outcomes:

Based on the above goal, EMU Masters in Nursing program strives to:

1. Promote the development of a covenantal faculty student relationship that facilitates and promotes personal and professional growth by providing support, honest feedback and consistent challenge.
2. Provide faculty advising that is respectful, available, and cognizant of individual student needs and capabilities, assists advisees in exploring career goals, and advises accordingly.
3. Provide learning resources to support effective learning.
4. Provide a learning community in which students are active participants.
5. Facilitate an educational process that recruits and retains students with the capacity to become excellent nursing leaders.
6. Promote a learning environment in which faculty, staff and students are respectful of the diverse beliefs held by the members of the learning community.