SUNY Delhi MS in Nursing Education

Professional Nursing Standards and Guidelines Assignment

The MS in nursing education program content and outcomes are guided by multiple sources of knowledge
including theory, evidence, and professional nursing standards and guidelines (PSNGs). Professional
nursing standards provide expectations for advanced professional nursing roles and practice. Throughout
the graduate program you will engage in learning activities that will enable you to acquire and meet these
standards; these activities will be documented in a final assignment at the culmination of the graduate
program to show linkage to the PSNGs. This learning exercise provides an opportunity to reflect on how a
variety of learning activities helped you to meet the PSNGs and the graduate program outcomes. The
table will be submitted during the final graduate practicum course (NURS 605), and is posted in each
course as a reminder and to provide you with an opportunity to document how you met various standards
in that course, as you complete each course. Save the table and add to it each time you complete a
course!

Note: this assignment is for students who are matriculated into the graduate program in
nursing education. This is not applicable to non-matriculated students!

The learning outcomes for this assessment exercise are to:

Provide an understanding of the integration of professional nursing standards into advanced

professional nursing practice.
 Enable reflection of achievement of each professional nursing standard as evidenced by learning
activities completed during the graduate program.
Assess how the SUNY Delhi graduate nursing education program outcomes have been met through
the learning activities completed during the graduate program.

Sources for the professional nursing standards and guidelines:

The Essentials of Masters Education in Nursing (AACN, 2011)

o http://www.aacn.nche.edu/education-resources/MastersEssentials11.pdf
National League of Nursing Nurse Educator Competencies (NLN, 2007)
o http://www.wgec.org/resources/art/nursing-core-competencies.pdf
o Billings, D. M., & Halstead, J. A. (2016). Teaching in nursing: A guide for faculty (5th ed.). St Louis: MO: Elsevier
(pp. 10-11).

The Essentials of Masters Education in Nursing

There are nine essentials of graduate nursing education that identify the core expectations, skills, and competencies for masters
program graduates, across the continuum of care in a variety of settings. Within each essential element there are between 5-15
expected outcomes for masters level graduates in nursing. Refer to these outcomes as you identify how you met each essential, and
include those met in the assignment table below.

Essential I Background for Practice from Sciences and Humanities

Essential II Organizational and Systems Leadership
Essential III Quality Improvement and Safety
Essential IV Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practice
Essential V Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
Essential VI Health Policy and Advocacy
Essential VII Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes
Essential VIII Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving Health
Essential IX Masters-Level Nursing Practice
National League of Nursing Nurse Educator Competencies
There are eight competencies for preparation of the nurse educator. This professional standard identifies the core expectations, skills,
and competencies for masters program graduates who will enter into nurse educator roles in a variety of settings. Within each
competency there are between 6-14 expected outcomes for masters level graduates in nursing education. Refer to these outcomes as
you identify how you met each competency, and include those met in the table below.

Competency Facilitate Learning

1
Competency Facilitate Learner Development and Socialization
2
Competency Use Assessment and Evaluation Strategies
3
Competency Participate in Curriculum Design and Evaluation of Program Outcomes
4
Competency Function as a Change Agent and Leader
5
Competency Pursue Continuous Quality Improvement in the Nurse Educator Role
6
Competency Engage in Scholarship
7
Competency Function Within the Educational Environment
8

Graduate Program Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Integrate advanced knowledge and theories from nursing and related disciplines into the nurse educator role
2. Use scientific inquiry and quality principles to identify problems and individualize patient care designed to improve care
outcomes
3. Apply advanced knowledge of leadership and management to effect change, and influence health policy to transform care
delivery systems
4. Practice inter-professional collaboration for improving patient and population health outcomes
5. Demonstrate competence in the advanced nursing role to meet current and emerging health needs of a global changing society
6. Apply teaching/learning principles with patients and/or students across the continuum of care in a variety of settings
 SUNY Delhi MS in Nursing Education

Professional Nursing Standards and Guidelines Assignment

Complete the following table as you progress through the MS program, when you have completed an
assignment that meets one or more of the standards. This table will be submitted as an assignment in
NURS 605: Graduate Practicum II. Complete Columns 2, 3, and 4 in the table below. In Columns 2 and 3,
identify at least one Essential and/or Core Competency with associated outcomes (at least one outcomes
per standard), and then an example of an assignment or learning activity that met this standard. Identify
the assignment, describe the assignment focus and outcome in 50-75 words, followed by a brief statement
as to how this met the standard. In Column 4, identify the number(s) of the Graduate Program Student
Learning Outcome (listed above) that links to these course activities. All of the MSN Essentials, Core
Competencies, and Program Outcomes should be represented in the table.

The following sample provides an example, and may be deleted when the table is submitted.

SAMPLE:

1 2 3 4
Graduate Nursing Course MSN Essentials NLN Core Competencies MSN Graduate Program
Student Learning
(Essential and the (Competency by number Outcomes
expected outcomes, by and the expected
number) outcomes, in brief)
NURS 502: Advanced Nursing
Research
Name _____________________________________________

Professional Nursing Standards and Guidelines Table

1 2 3 4
Graduate Nursing MSN Essentials NLN Core MSN Graduate
Course Competencies Program Student
(Essential and the Learning Outcomes
expected outcomes, (Competency by
by number) number and the
expected outcomes,
in brief)
NURS 501: Research
Methods and Statistics

NURS 502: Advanced

Nursing Research

NURS 503: Advanced

Pathophysiology

NURS 504: Advanced

Pharmacology

NURS 505: Advanced Health

Assessment
ALHT 500: Health Policy
and Technology in
Healthcare

ALHT 501: Leadership and

Quality Improvement in
Healthcare Systems

NURS 600: Development of Essential IV: Competency 7: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

the Nurse Educator Outcomes # 3, 6 The literature review in
Assignment 3: this course is formulated
Literature Review from evidence based
This assignment was scholarly articles. The
consisted of selecting process is built on
literature from five (5) integrity of the proposed
scholarly sources in an evidence and must be
effort to design my own creatively compiled and
literature review. submitted into a final
Outcome #3: This met literature review paper.
the outcome of
articulating credible
sources of information
relevant to practice by
reviewing and
presenting scholarly
articles in an actual
review of literature.
Outcome #6: The
review and critiquing of
 scholarly evidence
based articles utilizing
several advanced
searches that included
CINAHL and Google
Scholar, was one step
towards a complete
literature review.

NURS 601: Principles of Essential IX: Competency 4: 2, 4, 5, 6

Teaching and Learning Outcomes # 2, 4, 12 Compiling research in
Assignment 3: the area of postpartum
Aggregating depression and
Assignments A, B, C formulating a teaching
This assignment was a plan that demonstrates
three (3) part key risk factors, as well
assignment that utilized as nursing interventions
a foundation of nursing can be considered when
knowledge to discuss designing and
interventions, as well as developing curriculum.
a designing, Recognizing nursing is
implementing, and always evolving
evaluating a teaching curricular revisions may
plan on postpartum be necessary when
depression. Outcome appropriate.
#2: This met the
outcome of using
evidence based practice
guidelines when
 compiling research for a
learning module.
Outcome #4:
Analyzing and compiling
best practice guidelines
was the basis of forming
a teaching plan.
Outcome #12:
Implementing best
practice guidelines was
the basis of a teaching
module on postpartum
depression using a
concept map such as
Popplet.
NURS 602: Curriculum Essential V: Competency 4: 1, 3, 4, 6
Development and Outcomes # 1, 5, 6 Proposing the SAMR
Instructional Design Assignment 3: SAMR model in this course
Model promotes continuous
The SAMR Model is quality improvement of
utilized to aid the a nursing program.
educator to design
digital experiences that
will utilized technology
in the classroom.
Outcome # 1: Utilizing
the SAMR Model
supports the outcome
by analyzing current and
 emerging technologies
in the classroom.
Outcome # 5:
Principles of learning are
impacted by computer
technology.
Outcome # 6: The
recognition of the
importance of
technology is justified
when considering the
SAMR model.

NURS 603: Measurement Essential VIII: Competency 3: 1, 3, 4, 6

and Evaluation in Nursing Outcomes # 3, 4, 5 The testing plan was
Education Assignment 1: designed to assess and
Objective Tests: evaluate individual
Design and learning needs, taking
Consideration into consideration
Designing and delivering evidence-based
tests enables application assessment and
and integration of evaluation strategies.
educational
competencies.
Outcome #3: Testing
aids in designing and
redesigning course
 outcomes that are
patient-centered.
Outcome #4: Applying
nursing sciences and
other scientific concepts
is considered when
formulating a testing
plan.
Outcome #5: Relevant
educational strategies
are considered when
formulating a testing
plan.

NURS 604: Graduate Essential VI: Competency 7: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Practicum I Outcomes # 3, 4, 5 The simulation
Assignment 5: conference abstract
Conference Abstract designed in this course
Designing and preparing draws on evidence-
an abstract for scholarly based teaching that
review for a nursing included scholarly
conference promotes abstract writing and
health, while shaping followed proper
the delivery of submission guidelines of
healthcare. Outcome an abstract for
#3: Abstract consideration at an
preparation and actual nursing
 submission consider the conference.
processes of nursing
practice.
Outcome #4:
Reviewing, interpreting,
and presenting research
begins with formulating
a scholarly abstract for
review.
Outcome #5: Writing
an abstract and
presenting it for
consideration is the
beginning of advocating
for policies already
being implemented, as
well as those policies
that may need to be
updated based on
evidence based
research.

NURS 605: Graduate Essential IX: Competency 6: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Practicum II Outcomes # 5, 7, 14, Weebly portfolio design
15 and delivery integrates
Assignment 7: professional
Weebly Portfolio development
Designing a professional opportunities which
portfolio is essential for demonstrates
career enhancement commitment to lifelong
and integrates the learning.
experiences learned in
the Masters-degree
nursing program.
Outcome # 5 and 7:
Including leadership
activities and knowledge
of disease management
is presented in the
design of the Weebly
portfolio.
Outcome # 14 and 15:
The Weebly portfolio
design shares personal
philosophy of nursing.
Professional standards
and accountability are
delivered with each
assignment added to the
Weebly portfolio.