The Master of Science in Nursing educates graduates who are prepared to:

• Integrate and apply established and evolving scientific knowledge from diverse sources as the basis for ethical clinical judgement, innovation, and diagnostic reasoning to provide advanced nursing care. 
• Deliver holistic, compassionate, evidence-based person-centered care through the assessment, diagnoses, management, and evaluation of advanced nursing practice.  
• Partner and collaborate in traditional and non-traditional partnerships across the health care continuum to integrate advanced nursing practice that improves equitable population health outcomes.   
• Synthesize and apply evidence in the delivery of advanced nursing care to promote and improve health.  
• Integrate established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science to minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.  
• Collaborates with the interprofessional health care team, patients, families, communities, and other stake holders in the delivery of safe, effective, care. 
• Participates in organizational and systems approaches across complex healthcare systems to foster cost-effective, safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations. 
• Utilize and incorporate informatics and healthcare technologies used to gather data, form information to drive decision making, and comply with best practices and professional and regulatory standards that improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services.  
• Demonstrate a professional identity that incorporates accountability, ethical comportment, and a collaborative disposition that reflects the characteristics and values of an advanced nursing practitioner. 
• Demonstrate responsibility for lifelong learning, personal well-being, professional career development, and reflection for personal growth as an advanced practicing nurse and support the acquisition of nursing expertise.