Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, DNP

• Combine knowledge in nursing, ethics, and the medical sciences to develop and evaluate practices and models of patient care/client delivery
• Develop and evaluate effective strategies for managing ethical dilemmas present across the health care, technology, and research fields
• Use analytic methods to design, implement, and evaluate best-practice models for patient/client care and care delivery
• Effectively develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to advance the field and systems of population health care delivery
• Demonstrate leadership in the development and implementation of institutional, local, state, federal, and international health policy
• Advocate for social justice, equity, and ethical policies in health care
• Analyze the relationship among practical, organizational, population, fiscal, and policy issues to educate individuals and colleagues effectively
• Develop relationships and partnerships with patients/clients and other professionals to facilitate optimal patient/client care outcomes
• Advance the mission and core values of the University of San Francisco

Supplemental PMHNP PLOs

• Demonstrate the specialized body of knowledge and clinical competencies required to assume an advanced practice nursing role, including theoretical foundation, evidence based clinical practice and inter and intra professional collaboration
• Demonstrate the ability to provide quality health care services that reflect cultural competence, social justice, fiscal stewardship, and ethical responsibility, representing the Jesuit mission of a more humane and just world
• Create and implement holistic plans of care that competently assess, diagnose, treat, and evaluate patients with a focus on health promotion, disease prevention, and patient centered care
• Demonstrate the ability to integrate doctoral scholarship and leadership skills in the delivery of care