Aacn Essentials

The American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) is the accrediting agency for bachelors and graduate education. It works to provide quality standards for nursing education and guide schools in achieving those standards. It also promotes the nursing profession to improve healthcare and advocates public support for professional nursing education, research and practice. They established the Essentials of Master’s Education to pinpoint the skills and knowledge that all nurses should achieve going through the master’s nursing programs. According to AACN, “these Essentials are the core for all master’s programs in nursing and provide the necessary curricular elements and framework, regardless of focus, major, or intended practice setting“ (AACN 2011). These Essentials are:
• 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. …show more content…
Chamberlain is committed to graduating compassionate, ethical, and knowledge nurse leaders who transform healthcare. The program outcome of Master of Science in Nursing is to prepare the graduate to assume advanced roles in nursing administration, education, informatics, healthcare policy and clinical practice. The graduate applies acquired knowledge of leadership skills in educational, organizational and practice