Doctor of Nursing Practice, Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist (BSN to DNP) Overview

The AG-CNS graduate is prepared to:

1. Provide expert outcome-oriented nursing therapeutics for complex patients to promote health, well-being, and quality of life.
2. Manage the integration and coordination of patient care services across the health care continuum.
3. Design and implement patient and staff educational programs for promotion of positive health care outcomes.
4. Consult and collaborate with members of the health care team to support the delivery of quality patient care.
5. Utilize research methodology and evidence to investigate, promote, and evaluate nursing therapies that produce positive patient care outcomes.
6. Model responsibility for continued professional development, integrity, accountability, competence, and credentialing as a clinical nurse specialist.

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Program Outcomes

1. Integrate nursing science with knowledge from ethics and the biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, educational, and organizational sciences as the basis for the highest level of nursing practice.
2. Develop and evaluate care delivery approaches that meet current and future needs of patient populations based upon scientific findings in nursing science, clinical sciences, and organizational, political, and economic sciences.
3. Use analytic methods to appraise existing literature and other evidence to determine and implement the best evidence for practice. Serve as a leader in the development and implementation of institutional, local, state, federal, and international health policy.
4. Advocate for the patients and the nursing profession within government, business, education, and healthcare communities.
5. Collaborate with interprofessional teams to analyze complex practice and organizational issues in leading change to improve patient, population, and system health outcomes.
6. Analyze epidemiological, bio-statistical, environmental, and other scientific data related to individual, aggregate, and population health.
7. Integrate advanced level of judgment, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, teaching, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care to improve patient and healthcare outcomes.