At the completion of the MSN program, a graduate of the St. David’s School of Nursing at Texas State University will be able to:

  1. Integrate scientific findings from nursing, humanities, and sciences into the delivery of advanced nursing practice.
  2. Demonstrate expertise in safe, compassionate, holistic, individualized and effective person- and family-centered care within advanced nursing.
  3. Integrate clinical prevention and population health concepts, including global and social determinants of health into advanced nursing practice for the improvement of equitable outcomes.
  4. Critique, synthesize, integrate, and disseminate scientific evidence into advanced nursing practice to maintain best practice and improve patient outcomes.
  5. Synthesize quality improvement processes that enhance system efficiency and ensure consistent safety standards in the care environment and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
  6. Demonstrate the application of interprofessional concepts that foster collaboration, mutual respect, and shared decision making to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and improve outcomes.
  7. Employ healthcare organizational and systems leadership methods to design safe, high-quality, and cost-effective care for diverse populations.
  8. Apply knowledge of healthcare technologies and information systems to coordinate care, interpret patient data, support clinical decision making, and improve quality outcomes in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards in advanced nursing practice specialties.
  9. Model a professional identity that promotes accountability, integrity, civility, respect for the inherent dignity of individuals, and ethical behaviors that are reflective of the characteristics and values of advanced nursing practice.
  10. Integrate initiatives that foster self-reflection, personal health, resilience, and well-being, support lifelong learning, and facilitate the continuous acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership abilities.