2023 cycle

https://calstatela.curriculog.com/proposal:12548/form

 

How will the changes fit with the Institutional Mission / Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO)

The changes are in direct alignment with the ILOs. The changes are geared to prepare the graduates to achieve mastery as nurse practitioners or nurse educators. These changes are informed by requirements set forth by our regulatory agencies, specifically the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Mastery, the ultimate goal of the change, is in direct alignment with ILO -1, Mastery of content and process of inquiry. ILO 2 and ILO 4 are also addressed by a shift to competency-based education (CBE) from concept-based education. CBE strongly utilizes active learning strategies, including experiential learning. Increased simulation and completion of various learning activities demonstrating critical thinking and clinical reasoning are part of the new curricula. The students will have additional clinical hours as we move into the new curricula, which will benefit many of the communities in Southern California that we utilize to educate and prepare our graduates to become practitioners. Most of our community partners provide service to diverse, often underserved populations.

 

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 practice 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