SUNY Delhi MS in Nursing Education or Nursing Administration

Professional Nursing Standards and Guidelines Assignment

The MS in nursing education program content, learning activities, and outcomes are guided by multiple sources of knowledge
including theory, evidence, and professional nursing standards and guidelines (PNSGs). The PNSGs used to design our graduate
programs provide expected competencies for advanced professional nursing roles and practice.

The learning activities you have completed throughout the program will be documented in a table in your final course |(NURS
605/610) to show linkage to the PNSGs and also our End-of-Program Outcomes. The table can be found in the MSN Student
Resources link under MSN Course Resources. It is recommended that you download the table early on in the program, and add to it
each time you complete a course so is will be mostly completed by the final practicum.

Note: This assignment is for students who are matriculated into the MS program in Nursing Education or Nursing
Administration. This is not applicable to non-matriculated students or those in certificate programs!

The learning outcomes for this assignment 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 linkage of learning activities
completed during the graduate program.
 Assess how the SUNY Delhi graduate nursing 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 Master’s Education in Nursing (AACN, 2011) (applicable to both MS programs)
o http://www.aacn.nche.edu/education-resources/MastersEssentials11.pdf
 National League of Nursing Nurse Educator Competencies (NLN, 2018) (applicable to MS in Education only)
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 Master’s Education in Nursing

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

National League of Nursing Nurse Educator Competencies

There are eight competencies for preparation of the nurse educator. These professional standards identify the core expectations, skills,
and competencies for master’s 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 master’s level graduates in nursing education. Refer to these
subcategories to identify outcomes as you identify how you met each competency, and include those in your detailed descriptions in
the table below.

Competency 1 Facilitate Learning

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

Graduate Program Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Integrate advanced knowledge from nursing, related sciences, and humanities to influence and improve healthcare in diverse
settings and environments.
2. Demonstrate competencies to develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based interventions and conduct scholarly inquiry.
3. Incorporate quality, education, and leadership principles to advocate for health policy and effect systems-level change within
populations, healthcare environments, and organizational systems.
4. Apply skills of communication, consultation, and collaboration on intra/interprofessional healthcare teams to promote
improved health outcomes in a global population.
5. Integrate concepts of prevention, cultural competence, ethics, safety, education, and leadership and management into the
planning, delivery, coordination, and evaluation of care to individual, families, and community/population groups.
6. Develop dynamic and innovative advanced practice initiatives supported by theories of nursing, teaching and learning,
leadership, healthcare/educational technologies, and evaluation strategies.

SUNY Delhi MS in Nursing Education or Administration

 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 605/610: Graduate Practicum II. Complete Columns 2,
3, and 4 in the table below.

 Column 2: identify at least one MSN Essential and then list the outcomes (by number) that fit what you have done, and
describe how your work met this Essential. .
 Column 3: identify at least one NLN Core Competency (Education majors) or AONE Competency (Administration majors)
with associated outcomes (at least one outcome per standard), and then an example of an assignment or learning activity that
met this standard (in the sample below, the assignments are the same. If the assignment is different, please identify the
assignment). Complete this information in 50-75 words. Follow this with a brief statement as to how this met the standard.
 Column 4: identify the number(s) of the Graduate Program Student Learning Outcome (listed above) that links to these course
activities, and explain how it was achieved. All of the MSN Essentials, NLN Core or AONE Competencies, and Program
Outcomes should be represented in the table.

Name ___Estrella Perez___

Professional Nursing Standards and Guidelines Table

1 2
Graduate Nursing Course MSN Essentials (Both Ed
and Admin)
(Essential and the expected
outcomes, by number,
followed by the example of
3 4
NLN Core Competencies (Ed MSN Graduate Program
only) Student Learning Outcomes
(or) AONE Competencies
(Admin only)

NURS 501: Research
Methods and Statistics (Both
Ed and Admin)
the assignment and
explanation)
Essential V: Outcome 2 & 6
Assignment 1: SPSS
Assignment: Level of
measurement and data
visualization
In this assignment I used SPSS
software to run measurement
information based on clinical
data that was provided by my
professor. Outcome #2 was
met by using I used statistical
principles such as frequency to
see how often an item occurs.
Outcome #6 Healthcare
statistical research and
informatics is a growing field
in nursing, by having exposure
to the SPSS system I can use
this to peruse other avenues in
nursing informatics.
(List Competency by number
and the expected outcomes in
each standard, in brief)
Competency 3: Outcome 3 & Program Student Learning
6: Outcome 3: Interpreting Outcome: 2: Using the SPSS
and assessing data from the software it demonstrates
SPSS assignments I was using competency in the evaluation
evidence-based assessment to of research data conducted by
visualize the data from the other and in the future by the
study. Visualizing data through advanced nurse. Being able to
Pie Charts and Histograms assess data using a
helps facilitate learner goals technological tool reinforces
because most people are visual the nurse’s competency to
learners and this makes this develop, implement, and
information easier to interpret. evaluate data and change or
Outcomes 6: By conducting improve actions based on this
SPSS assignment improved my information.
evaluation and assessment
skills for data collection, I can
use the data to ensure that best
practices are used in the
clinical setting.
Meeting the Standard: SPSS
can help to determine data
outliers or questions that are
too easy or too difficult
depending on how many
people got the questions right
or wrong. By understanding
this information educator can
evaluate their effectiveness
accordingly.
NURS 502: Advanced Essential II: Outcome: 4&6:
Nursing Research (Both Ed Assignment 2 & 3 Research
and Admin) Proposal: I conducted a
research proposal that would
look at a target population to
see how we can change
practices to improve patient
outcomes. Understanding how
the healthcare system works
and where there are gaps for
this population one can
conduct research to close these
gaps. Outcome 4 was met
because understanding how the
healthcare system worked and
operated was one of my first
steps to conducting the
research; after conducting this
research outcome 6 was met to
use the information I had
obtained to design new
strategies to target the patient
population I was researching.
NURS 503: Advanced Essential IX: Outcome: 1&7:
Pathophysiology (Both Ed Assignment: Week 3 Case
and Admin) Study Chronic Renal
Failure: This assignment meet
Competency 5: Outcomes 1 Program Student Learning
& 3: After my research was Outcome 1,2,3,4, 6:
completed I was able to Conducting a research
present my information to the proposal incorporates a lot of
administrative heads that nursing knowledge and
would ensure my new design personal experience to
would be incorporated into the discover where a problem
standards of care at the exists and what can be done to
hospital. Outcome 1: correct it. Nursing research
Understanding the target uses evidence-based practices,
population was essential to theory and nursing instinct to
fixing the problem, looking at conduct a successful research
the population for cultural, study.
religious, and preferred
language was critical in
creating a new design.
Outcome 3: Many departments
including the ED, inpatient and
outpatient services would be
consulted because each was a
point of care in the patients’
healthcare journey.
Meeting the Standard: By
working with the
interdisciplinary teams to
maintain cultural competency I
was able to gather the right
workers to care for the patients
while at the hospital.
Competency 1: Outcomes 7 Program Student Learning
& 8: Having a strong scientific Outcome: 1,2,4,5,6
understanding of Case studies present a clinical
pathophysiology is critical for scenario that requires critical
 outcome 1 and 7 because I
used knowledge about disease
process and management to
perform risk assessment and
provide care. By conducting a
complete head to toe
assessment and watching the
patient for changes in health
status I can make decisions to
best car for the patient
NURS 504: Advanced Essential III: Outcome: 1:
Pharmacology (Ed only) Assignment 2 Emerging
Technologies in Pain
Management: This
assignment looked at new
ways to treat pain, especially
considering the opioid
concerns that may arise from
treating pain. Conducting
research and analyzing new
information to improve patient
care was the main concept.
having clinical thinking and thinking to best care for the
reasoning skills. Nurses can patient. By researching a
then instruct students on best conduction such as chronic
practices and share there renal failure the nurse become
experience with students in the more knowledgeable and in
clinical setting, they can create turn can teach other nurses best
scenarios that will help the practices and works to improve
students to improve their patient outcomes.
critical thinking and reason
skills.
Meeting the Standard: By
having a strong scientific
background in
pathophysiology I can become
more knowledgeable and
facilitate learning for other
nurses.
Competency 3: Outcomes1 : Program Student Learning
Obtaining knowledge about Outcome 4: A nurse’s
previous methods of treating responsibility is to maintain
pain and comparing them to knowledge up to date, when a
new methods will help the new clinical practices has been
nurse best educate the patient uncovered the nurse must
about their options for share her knowledge with the
threating pain. The nurse will interdisciplinary team by
educate the patient about the communicating and apply her
potential harm of drug knowledge.
dependency from traditional
treatments.
Meeting the Standard: By
conducting literature research
on new treatment methods the
 nurse maintains her skills at an
optimal level.
NURS 505: Advanced Health Essential IV: Outcome: 1&3: Competency 1: Outcomes 3: Program Student Learning
Assessment (Ed only) Assignment 1 Grand Rounds A nurse who is conducting a Outcome 1:
VoiceThread Presentation: full assessment on a patient
This assignment meets the who has come into a healthcare The nurses build upon her
outcomes because clinical facility must take into account clinical assessment knowledge
judgment and reasoning is culture, gender, socioeconomic to assess the patient.
used to discover what is going status when educating a patient
on with the patient. about their disease process. In
Furthermore, the information this assignment a patient come
was shared with member of the in with a complaint and a full
interdisciplinary care team assessment is conducted.
where based on my assessment Meeting the Standard: After
they would know what the the patient is stable the nurse
patients’ health scenario is. must educate the patient about
their disease process and take
all aspects of the patient’s life
into account.
ALHT 500: Health Policy Essential VI: Outcome: 4&5: Competency 7: Outcomes 5: Program Student Learning
and Technology in Assignment 2 Advocacy and This first step of this Outcomen1,2,3,4,5,6: This
Healthcare (Both Ed and vulnerable Population assignment was to identify the assignment met all the
Admin) Poster: In this assignment I vulnerable population and see program outcomes because t
choose a vulnerable population what resource are currently started off with identifying a
(homeless women ages 18-30) available for them. Next, we population, researching,
to establish what their social would advocate for this planning and then using
determinants of health were, population by seeking evidence-based models to
health disparity and assistance from national and advocate and seek assistance
organizations that aim to help local agencies that aim to help for this population through
this population. this population. Certain local and national policy and
national organizations are also legislation changes.
Lobbying organizations which
aim to change legislation that

ALHT 501: Leadership and
Quality Improvement in
Healthcare Systems (Both Ed
and Admin)
NURS 600: Development of
the Nurse Educator (Ed
only)
Essential I: Outcome 6
Assignment QUIP Proposal:
In this assignment I conducted
a quality improvement
proposal for the discharge
planning process at an acute
care facility. It was important
to establish goals and
interventions to meet those
goals using best practices and
the quality improvement
process.
Essential VII: Outcome: 1:
Assignment Nurse educator
role and development plan:
In this assignment I researched
the role of the nurse educator
focusing on professional
organizations, resources and
the CNE certification. I created
a long term plan to ensure that
I stay in track with my pursue
of being a nurse educator and
discover new aspects of the
role.
is in the best interest of the
vulnerable population.
Competency 4 Outcomes 8:
In this assignment I designed
and implemented a quality
improvement initiative that
was aimed at improving the
hospital discharge process by
making it more effective.
Competency 7: Outcomes 2:
The role of the nurse educator
is specialized and when one
first enters there could be a lot
of new information.
Sometimes nurse transitions to
the educator role from a
clinical role, understanding the
role of the educator will ensure
that the nurse fully engages in
student development,
assessment of students and
understands the principles of
teaching and learning.
Meeting the Standard: I
created a power point to share
my development plan, it also
helped me to visualize the role
of the educator.
Program Student Learning
Outcome: 1,2,3
I integrated advanced
knowledge on process
improvement and quality
improvement. The purpose of
using this information was to
improve quality care for the
patients and their families, to
essentially improve patient
outcomes and prevent
complications after discharge.
Program Student Learning
Outcome 5: This assignment
helped to understand the role
of the educator to meet the
competency of the advanced
nursing role. The need for
qualified educators is a health
need throughout all of
healthcare.
NURS 601: Principles Essential VIII: Outcome: 3:
of Teaching and Learning Weebly website development
(Ed only) Part C- Content delivery
plan:
In this assignment I created a
plan on how I would educate a
patient population including
method of instruction and what
content would be covered. This
education plan can be applied
to designing patient centered
information and education
material.
Competency 2: Outcomes 1 Program Student Learning
& 2: Outcome 6: This assignment
Understanding who you will helped me plan the delivery of
be teaching and what their educational material and apply
needs are is the first step to teaching and learning
creating a teaching plan for principles by walking me
them. This will help the through the development of a
educator to choose with teaching process step by step.
instructional method, theory,
resources and method of
evaluation will be used. It is
also important to maintain a
good time frame for each
teaching activity to prevent
loss of interest.
Meeting the Standard:
Researching teaching theories,
instructional methods and
design helped me to create an
instructional plan for a target
population.
NURS 602: Curriculum Essential II: Outcome: 6:
Development and Assignment 3 Application of
Instructional Design (Ed SAMR Model
only) I applied the SAMR model to
redesign how traditional care
plans assignment were being
submitted. I added technology
to an assignment that usually
does not use technology. This
required me to investigate
what technologies could be
used to best meet new design
plans.
NURS 603: Measurement Essential VII: Outcome 3:
and Evaluation in Nursing Assignment Evaluating
Education (Ed only) clinical performance:
Evaluating student
performance is part of the
educator role; unfortunately,
student failure is sometimes
inevitable and as educators we
must let the student know that
they have not passed.
Competency 3: Outcomes 1
&3
By implementing technology
into the evaluation of nursing
care plans instructors were
able to provide feedback in a
timely manner and provide
student with extra time for
corrections and resubmissions.
Originally this task was time
consuming, after the redesign
it was clear, effective and
reduced turnaround time for
instructors and students.
Meeting the Standard:
The SAMR model is an
evidenced based approach to
assessment and evaluation and
can be applied to incorporate
technology into an assignments
or other course work.
Competency 3 Outcomes 5:
This assignment prepared me
to provide timely, direct and
constructive feedback to a
student who had failed clinical
rotation. Communicating this
to a student is difficult and the
nurse must be prepared to
share their finding about the
student’s performance in order
Program Student Learning
Outcome 1 & 6:
Implementing evidenced based
models such as SAMR to
incorporate technology into the
development of educational
assessment tools helps to meet
the program outcomes. Having
base knowledge to apply
SAMR to future professional
development is important.
Program Student Learning
Outcome 1:
I used my advanced
knowledge, nursing theory for
assessment and evaluation to
communicate to the student
that they have failed and
assignment. I also made sure to
provide guidance on the next
steps and made myself

NURS 604: Graduate Essential VII Outcome 4:
Practicum I (Both Ed and IPC interview:
Admin) In this assignment I interviews
an LCSW who is part of an
interdisciplinary care team. I
discovered different aspects of
her role and how she works
along with nurses daily to
meet.
NURS 605: Graduate Essential V: Outcome 1 :
Practicum II (Both Ed and Assignment Learning
Admin) Contract:
Creating a learning contract
that outlines exactly what I
would be doing when teaching
to help the student move
forward.
Meeting the Standard:
I met the standard by creating
a scenario where I had to
provide timely, constructive
and thoughtful feedback to a
student regarding clinical
performance.
Competency 6 Outcomes 6:
This assignment helped me
function as a member of the
care team by appreciating and
learning about the different
roles everyone plays and how
we can all work together. It is
important to remember to let
each individual work on their
expert areas and maintain the
lines of communication open.
Meeting the Standard:
Nurses can function as team
leaders and are expected to
give concise information about
the patient in order to function
as a group leader.
Competency 8 Outcomes 5:
Communicating with students
it crucial in order to teach
effectively. The main goal for
my contract was to use my
communication skills to
available to the student if they
required further assistance.
Program Student Learning
Outcome:
1,2,3,4,5,6
This assignment integrated
nursing knowledge and applied
an interview communication as
form of scientific inquiry.
Using the knowledge learned it
was applied to foster
interprofessional collaboration
and demonstrates competency
in the educator role. Learning
about all aspects of the
healthcare system and who is
involved is part of the
advanced nurse role.
Program Student Learning
Outcome:
1,2,3,4,5,6
The cumulative knowledge,
skills and practice that I have
learned throughout this
an online RN-BSN course
helped me plan my teaching
strategies, in included
technology that would focus of
health promotions.
practice in a professional and program were reflected into
respectful manner with the learning contract. I applied
students and faculty. Learning knowledge, planned for what
to function within the knew knowledge and skills I
educational environment was should obtain and how they
done by having regular would be measured. The
communications with my contract also required research
preceptor and students to foster into the role of nurse educator
learning. I also used in the online setting to ensure
technology such as YouTube, that I would meet all
PowerPoint, and blogs to requirements.
enhance learning and
communication.
Meeting the Standard:
The learning contract allowed
me to plan and evaluate my
role in the online classroom
setting, I learned how to
function I this environment
and what strategies are best
used for the online
environment.