Source 2024 cycle: https://calstatela.curriculog.com/proposal:15216/form

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.

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 of the Nursing Discipline. The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform healthcare.

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 the 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.

Fit with the Institutional Mission or Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

The Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) post-master’s certificate complements and extends the Mission, Vision, and Values of California State University, Los Angeles. Courses provide the knowledge, skills, and competencies to prepare graduates to provide acute care to adults, predominately within inpatient healthcare settings. The post-master’s certificate is uniquely tailored to address the institutional learning outcomes of California State University, Los Angeles. Mastery of content and the process of inquiry are handled with the courses that teach the student to evaluate evidence for applicability to their practice. The program prepares students to acquire, evaluate, and synthesize specialized knowledge to address acute healthcare needs and issues facing individuals and their families. 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 (AACN) and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Place and community, the AGACNP Post Master’s certificate reflects 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 as the student moves toward mastery; learning is evaluated in didactic and clinical courses. Each course prepares the student to be practice-ready.