NHWSN PROGRAM OUTCOMES 

AACN Domain: Definition reflects NHWSN Values 

Entry-Level Professional Nursing Education: End of Program Outcomes 

Advanced-Level Professional Nursing Education: End of Program Outcomes 

Domain 1: 

Knowledge for Nursing Practice: 

“Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.”

Integrate established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines to guide the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice. 

Synthesize and translate evolving knowledge from within nursing and across disciplines to drive clinical judgment, based on a foundation of liberal arts, natural and social sciences to apply evolving interdisciplinary knowledge to foster clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice. 

Domain 2: 

Person-Centered Care: 

“Focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based and developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.” 

Prioritize person-centered care focused on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. 

Provide and evaluate person-centered care that addresses the unique needs and values of individual, familial and cultural contexts grounded in a robust scientific foundation that informs nursing practice across all specialties and functional areas. 

Domain 3:

Population Health: 

“Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health 

outcomes.” 

Implement best evidence to support the health of populations across spheres of care, incorporating social determinants of health, and respect for individuals with an emphasis on support strategies and policies to assure equitable population health outcomes. 

Develop and implement interventions and policies at a systems level with an emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion in collaboration with key stakeholders for the improvement of equitable health promotion and illness prevention for the improvement of equitable population health 

outcomes. 

Domain 4: 

Scholarship for Nursing Discipline: 

“The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and 

transform health care.” 

Synthesize nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care. 

Generate and disseminate knowledge within nursing and across the interprofessional team to improve health and transform health care. 

Domain 5: 

Quality and Safety: 

“Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.” 

Employ established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science to promote equitable, quality healthcare delivery on an individual and organizational level with consideration to cost effectiveness in healthcare. 

Synthesize and apply established and emerging principles of safety, evidence-based practice, and improvement science to promote quality healthcare delivery, including equitable outcomes, on an individual and organizational level with consideration to cost effectiveness in healthcare. 

Domain 6:

Interprofessional Partnerships: 

“Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, individuals, families, and communities and other stakeholders to optimize 

care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.” 

Collaborate across professions and with care team members, individuals, families, and communities and other partners to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes. 

Lead intentional inter-professional collaboration, optimizing person-centered care through effective teamwork, engagement, and stakeholder involvement, including patient, families and communities. 

Domain 7: 

Systems-Based Practice: “Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.” 

Coordinate resources within complex systems of health care to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations. 

Design, lead, and evaluate efforts to proactively coordinate resources to ensure accessible, safe, high quality, efficient and equitable health care within complex systems. 

Domain 8:

Informatics and Healthcare Technologies: “Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.” 

Prioritize information and communication technologies to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. 

Leverage and evaluate healthcare data utilizing technologies to facilitate safe, high quality, evidence-based healthcare services that are in compliance with professional and regulatory standards in decision making. 

Domain 9:

Professionalism: 

“Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative 

disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics, and values.” 

Form and cultivate a sustainable professional identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics, and values. 

Embody and model a sustainable professional identity, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment, that reflects nursing's core characteristics, ethics, and values in advanced practice and leadership 

Domain 10: 

Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development: 

“Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, and career-long learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of 

leadership.” 

Participate in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, and career-long learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership. 

Actively engage in activities that advocate for personal and organizational health, resilience, and well-being. Pursue opportunities for continued intellectual growth, nursing proficiency, mentorship, and leadership.