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• Describe the knowledge for nursing practice MSN essential -✓✓- Integration,
translation, and application of nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as
knowledge from other disciplines.
- Distinguishes the practice of professional nursing
- forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing
• Describe the person centered care MSN essential -✓✓- Focuses on the individual
within multiple complicated contacts including family or important others
- Holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based,
and developmentally appropriate
- Builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice
• Describe the population health MSN essential -✓✓- Spans from public health
prevention to disease management of populations
- Describes collaborative activities with both traditional and nontraditional partnerships
from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, healthcare, local
government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health
outcomes
• Describe the scholarship for nursing discipline MSN essential -✓✓- The generation,
synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve
health and transform healthcare
• Describe the quality and safety MSN essential -✓✓- Employment of established
emerging principles of safety and improvement of science
- Enhances quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both
system effectiveness an individual performance
• Describe the interprofessional partnerships MSN essential -✓✓collaboration across
professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other
stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen
outcomes
• Describe the systems based practice MSN essential -✓✓- Responding to and leading
within complex systems of healthcare
- effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, equitable care
, • Describe the informatics in healthcare technologies MSN essential -✓✓- used to
provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision-making, and support
professionals
- Used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high quality, and efficient healthcare
services
• Describe the professionalism MSN essential -✓✓- Formation and cultivation of a
sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative
disposition, and comportment that reflects nursings characteristics and values
• Describe the personal, professional, and leadership development MSN essential -✓✓-
Participation in activities and self reflection that Foster personal health, resilience, and
well-being, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise in assertion
of leadership
• What professional competencies accompany knowledge for nursing practice -✓✓-
Demonstrate an understanding of nursings distinct perspective and shared perspectives
with other disciplines
- Apply theory and research based knowledge from nursing, the arts, humanities, and
other sciences
- Demonstrate clinical judgment founded on a broad knowledge base
• What professional competencies accompany person centered care -✓✓- Engage with
the individual in establishing care
- Communicate effectively with individuals
- Integrate assessment skills
- Diagnose actual or potential health problems and needs
- Develop a plan of care
- Demonstrate accountability
- Evaluate outcomes of care
- promote self care management
- provide care coordination
• What professional competencies accompany population health -✓✓- Manage
population health
- Engage in effective partnerships
- Consider the Socioeconomic impact of the delivery of healthcare
- advance equitable population health policy
- demonstrate advocacy
- preparedness to protect population health during disasters and public health
emergency's
• What professional competencies accompany scholarship for the nursing discipline -
✓✓- Advance the scholarship of nursing
- integrate best evidence into nursing practice