Role Specific Nursing Competencies & End of Program Student Learning Outcomes
Role Specific Nursing Competencies
Nursing Education
- Assessment and Evaluation of Learner Progression- Implement various assessment and evaluation techniques to facilitate learning and progression through didactic, laboratory, and clinical settings using various learning modalities.
- Promote Scholarship Learner Socialization- Promote scholarship and intellectual learning by fostering expected values and behaviors that reflect those of the nurse educator and contribute to the profession.
- Contribute to Curriculum Design and Quality Improvements in the Nurse Educator Role- Nurse educators formulate program outcomes and curricula design while pursuing quality improvements using evidence-based trends that prepare graduates to function effectively in the faculty role.
- Nurse educator function as a leader and change agent with appropriate knowledge in political, institutional, social and economic areas of practice to create systems while maintaining competence in nursing education and nursing practice.
Global Leadership
- Function as a leader demonstrating flexibility and adaptability when problem-solving to implement organizational change.
- Implement effective strategies, leveraging differences to facilitate organizational change initiatives, and overcome resistance to change.
- Pursue business acumen and initiative to formulate a strategic plan.
- Employ systems thinking while using project management methods while addressing a global issue.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program aligns with AACN, The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Advanced-level Nursing Education and Nurse Practitioner Role Core Competencies and uses the PMHNP Standards of Practice and Competencies.
Role-Specific Nursing Competencies for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Option:
Role-Specific Nursing Competencies (RSNCs) for Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Option (The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF), American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies, 2022):
| NONPF Domain | PMHNP Role-Specific Nursing Competencies |
|---|---|
| I. Knowledge of Practice | Integrate nursing science with theories and knowledge from psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related disciplines to guide evidence-based clinical decision-making in psychiatric mental health care across the lifespan. |
| II. Person-Centered Care | Deliver individualized, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and holistic psychiatric mental health care that honors patients’ preferences, values, lived experiences, and recovery-oriented goals. |
| III. Population Health | Apply epidemiological, public health, and population-based principles to promote mental wellness, prevent psychiatric illness, and reduce mental health disparities among diverse and vulnerable populations. |
| IV. Practice Scholarship and Translational Science | Utilize evidence-based research, clinical guidelines, and peer reviewed scholarship to inform psychiatric practice, evaluate outcomes, and contribute to the advancement of psychiatric mental health nursing. |
| V. Quality and Safety | Promote continuous quality improvement, safe psychopharmacologic prescribing, risk mitigation, and patient safety practices across psychiatric care settings. |
| VI. Interprofessional Collaboration in Practice | Collaborate effectively with interprofessional healthcare teams to coordinate comprehensive psychiatric care, enhance patient outcomes, and ensure continuity across care transitions. |
| VII. Health Systems | Analyze, evaluate, and influence mental health delivery systems, organizational structures, and healthcare policies to advocate for equitable, accessible, and effective psychiatric services. |
| VIII. Technology and Information Literacy | Utilize telepsychiatry, electronic health records (EHRs), clinical decision-support systems, and digital health technologies to enhance psychiatric assessment, treatment planning, patient education, and outcomes monitoring. |
| IX. Professional Acumen | Demonstrate ethical practice, accountability, regulatory compliance, and adherence to professional standards and scope of practice in advanced psychiatric mental health nursing. |
| X. Personal and Professional Leadership | Exhibit leadership in psychiatric clinical practice, education, advocacy, and systems improvement while fostering self-care, resilience, and ongoing professional growth within the PMHNP role. |
FAMILY NURSE Practitioner
The NP role is consistent with the APRN Consensus Model, practicing in the population foci of Family/Individual Across Lifespan, Pediatrics, Women’s Health/Gender Related, Adult-Gerontology, Neonatal, and Psychiatric Mental Health. The Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program aligns with the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) | ANA, The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Advanced-level Nursing Education and Nurse Practitioner Role Core Competencies. FNP Standards of Practice and Competencies.
Role-Specific Nursing Competencies for the Family Nurse Practitioner Option:
Role-Specific Nursing Competencies (RSNCs) for Family Nurse Practitioner Option (The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties [NONPF], American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies, 2022):
| NONPF Domain | Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Role-Specific Nursing Competencies |
|---|---|
| Domain 1: Knowledge of Practice | Integrates advanced scientific foundations and primary care clinical knowledge to assess, diagnose, and manage acute and chronic health conditions across the lifespan. |
| Domain 2: Person-Centered Care | Delivers holistic, culturally responsive, developmentally appropriate primary care that incorporates shared decision making and patient/family engagement as an FNP |
| Domain 3: Population Health | Applies screening guidelines, epidemiological data, and prevention strategies to address population-level health needs and reduce risk across diverse family systems. |
| Domain 4: Practice Scholarship & Translational Science | Translates evidence-based guidelines into primary care management by synthesizing research, applying practice standards, and evaluating clinical outcomes. |
| Domain 5: Quality & Safety | Implements safety strategies, clinical protocols, and quality improvement processes to optimize primary care outcomes and reduce preventable harm. |
| Domain 6: Interprofessional Collaboration | Collaborates effectively with interdisciplinary teams and community partners to coordinate comprehensive care across settings. |
| Domain 7: Health Systems | Navigates healthcare delivery systems, referral pathways, reimbursement models, and value-based primary care processes. |
| Domain 8: Technology & Information Literacy | Utilizes telehealth, diagnostic technologies, and digital tools to support clinical decision-making, documentation, and patient education. |
| Domain 9: Professional Acumen | Demonstrate professional accountability, ethical comportment, and scope-appropriate clinical judgment while practicing as an advanced FNP |
| Domain 10: Personal & Professional Leadership | Engages in leadership behavior promote advocacy, quality improvement, and professional development in primary care. |
End of Program Student Learning Outcomes
- Propose solutions for the achievement of safe, high-quality outcomes in one’s specialty area as a leader and change agent.
- Formulate communications effectively that support safe healthcare practices.
- Synthesize leadership concepts, principles, and ethical reasoning in one’s specialty area to influence decision-making for quality outcomes in healthcare.
- Maximize professional standards in the practice of healthcare with integrity, caring, accountability, respect, and excellence in nursing practice.
- Influence healthcare professionals as a leader and change agent in one’s specialty area to create safe, effective, & culturally competent healthcare.
- Combine knowledge and skills in one’s specialty area of practice, identifying gaps in theory and practice, and utilize clinical reasoning to formulate research questions.