Mary Al-Khazraji
MSN, RN, CNOR
AACN Master's Essentials
Background for Practice from Sciences and Humanities
Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse integrates scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings.
Overall Self-Assessment
Proficient
NUR 612 Professional Roles in Advanced Nursing
Program Requirement Achievement Example
Plan for ongoing growth
Continue to pursue best practices and evidence based practice through regular analysis and review of literature.
Organizational and Systems Leadership
Recognizes that organizational and systems leadership are critical to the promotion of high quality and safe patient care. Leadership skills are needed that emphasize ethical and critical decision making, effective working relationships, and a systems-perspective.
Overall Self-Assessment
Expert
NUR 611 Influential Nursing Leadership
Program requirement achievement example
Plan for ongoing growth
Continue to make decisions and analyze situations in such a way as to engage and empower staff. Continue to work closely with interdepartmental leadership. Continue to run department with a focus on ethical, respectful decision making.
Quality Improvement and Safety
Recognizes that a master’s-prepared nurse must be articulate in the methods, tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality, as well as prepared to apply quality principles within an organization.
Overall Self-Assessment
Expert
NUR 437 The Professional Nurse
Program requirement achievement example
Plan for ongoing growth
Continue to promote and engender a department that focuses on patient safety. Continue to keep up to date on ever evolving quality and safety standards by consistent review of literature.
Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practice
Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse applies research outcomes within the practice setting, resolves practice problems, works as a change agent, and disseminates results.
Overall Self-Assessment
Expert
BUS 505 Human Resources Management
Program requirement achievement example
Plan for ongoing growth
Champion evidence based practice at a shared governance level to empower nursing practice.
Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse uses patient-care technologies to deliver and enhance care and uses communication technologies to integrate and coordinate care.
Overall Self-Assessment
Proficient
NUR 437 The Professional Nurse
Program requirement achievement example
Plan for ongoing growth
Continue to embrace technology's role in the healthcare field. Seek out educational opportunities when available due to technology's rapid changes. Integrate technology into my practice when possible.
Health Policy and Advocacy
Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse is able to intervene at the system level through the policy development process and to employ advocacy strategies to influence health and health care.
Overall Self-Assessment
Expert
NUR 648 Healthcare Law and Policy
Program requirement achievement example
Plan for ongoing growth
Continue to write, review, and implement policy based on evidence based practice. Continue to advocate for patients.
Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes
Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse, as a member and leader of interprofessional teams,
communicates, collaborates, and consults with other health professionals to manage and coordinate care.
Overall Self-Assessment
Expert
NUR 697 Seminar and Service Project II
Program requirement achievement example
Plan for ongoing growth
Continue to write, review, and implement policy based on evidence based practice. Continue to advocate for patients. Continue to collaborate and communicate with other inter professional staff.
Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving Health
Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse applies and integrates broad, organizational, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts in the planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinical prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and aggregates/identified populations.
Overall Self-Assessment
Expert
Program requirement achievement example
Plan for ongoing growth
Continue to review and integrate knowledge of differing people groups cared for by my organization. Promote an environment of tolerance and acceptance.
Master’s-Level Nursing Practice
Recognizes that nursing practice, at the master’s level, is broadly defined as any form of nursing intervention that influences healthcare outcomes for individuals, populations, or systems. Master’s-level nursing graduates must have an advanced level of understanding of nursing and relevant sciences as well as the ability to integrate this knowledge into practice. Nursing practice interventions include both direct and indirect care components.
Overall Self-Assessment
Expert
NUR 697 Seminar and Service Project II
Program requirement achievement example
Plan for ongoing growth
Continue to pursue education to drive safe patient care.