Advanced Practice Leadership

Goals

The goal of the Advanced Practice Leadership (APL) master's program is to prepare advanced practice nurse leaders to fill roles in primary care, acute care, and/or community care. The program is practice-oriented and theory-based, intended to prepare nurses for a wide variety of advanced practice roles, including clinical nurse specialist.

Objectives

Graduates of the Advanced Practice Leadership will:

• understand the complexity of nursing leadership and advanced nursing practice within local and global contexts,
• articulate the impact of nursing leadership on client care, professional nursing, health, and the health care system,
• demonstrate advanced practice nursing values, ethics, and leadership guided by social justice,
• identify and address health inequities,
• use knowledge to improve client care and nursing practice,
• understand the processes of program development, implementation and evaluation, and
• become a leader in nursing and health care.