Program Learning Outcomes

• The Students that complete the Family Nurse Practitioner (M.S.) program at SUNY Poly will:
• Embody a curiosity for and engage in creative solutions with evidence-based initiatives to mitigate the challenges in practice, education and leadership.  
• Assure the individual’s rights to self-directed healthcare is at the center of all practice, education and leadership decisions.
• Represent the values, norms, and mores of the nursing profession with commitment and veracity in advanced practice roles. 
• Justify clinical judgements, intervention strategies, and inter-professional consultations based on a specialized body of knowledge and advanced skills in family practice settings.
• Utilize technologies, data, and communication networks to manage the diversity and complexities of healthcare in family practice.  
• Collaborate with members of interdisciplinary healthcare teams and stakeholders to inform the development of healthcare policy.

Program Specific MS FNP Student Outcomes

1. Integrate sciences, humanities, theories, and frameworks to advance nursing science, professional identity, and lifelong learning.
2. Engage in the spirit of inquiry, scholarship and best evidence to inform practice decisions.
3. Guide policy development aligned with professional nursing values to direct improvements and quality outcomes across organizational systems.
4. Collaborate with interprofessional healthcare teams and multiple stakeholders as a member and leader to coordinate and manage the diversity and complexities of family healthcare across the lifespan.
5. Utilize technologies, data, and communication networks to enhance family healthcare services and promote client-centered outcomes.
6. Manage family health care across the lifespan utilizing models of health prevention, health protection, disease prevention and concepts of cultural competence.
7. Evaluate clinical judgements, intervention strategies, and inter-professional consultations based on a specialized body of knowledge within the advanced practice role as a family nurse practitioner across a variety of settings.
8. Practice critical reflection through self-evaluation and peer evaluation processes to enhance care and practice as an advanced practice nurse.