AY 2024-2025 -https://calstatela.curriculog.com/proposal:12909/form

 

C1. Fit with the Institutional Mission / Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO)

The Doctor of Nursing Practice Program complements and extends the Mission, Vision, and Values of California State University, Los Angeles. Courses provide the knowledge, skills, and competencies that allow graduates to succeed in their chosen fields. Graduates are prepared for leadership positions within the healthcare community and have the education and training to transition into academia as faculty. The DNP graduate has the skills and knowledge that allow them to advocate and participate in diverse initiatives on local, regional, and community levels that can improve the lives and health of many. As working professionals, the DNPs provide an additional link to many current or potential partnering institutions within the Los Angeles area.

Fit with ILOs

The Doctor of Nursing Practice degree is uniquely tailored to address the institutional learning outcomes for California State University, Los Angeles. Mastery of content and the process of inquiry are handled with the courses that teach the graduate to evaluate various types of evidence for applicability to their practice. The ability of content and the investigation process are integrated throughout the program. The DNP program prepares students to acquire, evaluate, and synthesize knowledge from healthcare and other fields to develop new programs, find solutions to healthcare issues facing individuals or communities, and advocate for local, regional, or national change. The process of attaining mastery/competency is fostered within the program and meets a required component of certification by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Place and community, the DNP program will reflect the mission and the values of the Patricia A. Chin School of Nursing, which emphasizes the need to provide equitable, just health care for all individuals. Advocacy skills are developed and honed, allowing the graduate to promote change to care delivery on a broader scale. Transformative learning occurs throughout the program; however, the Program capstone provides the opportunity to complete a project that can impact the graduate’s practice environment. The skill set that allows the project’s completion is available for future post-graduate endeavors.

The Doctor of Nursing Practice Program through the Southern California Consortium has been in existence for 11 years.  California State University Los Angeles has been an active partner in the Consortium.  Our partnering Universities have elected to leave the consortium in favor of proceeding as individual degree-granting institutions. Dean Vogel has provided direction, support, and resources to the Patricia A. Chin School of Nursing to move forward with the DNP program.

 

C2. Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

PLO 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.

PLO 2. Person-Centered Care. Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, 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.

PLO 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.

PLO 4. Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline. The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.

PLO 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.

PLO 6. Interprofessional Partnerships. Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.

PLO 7. Systems-Based Care. Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations.

PLO 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 practices and professional and regulatory standards.

PLO 9. Professionalism. Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment, that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.

PLO 10.  Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development. Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being; contribute to lifelong learning; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.