MEPN Curriculum & Locations

Learn the knowledge, attitudes and skills that are fundamental to nurses from our highly qualified nursing faculty.


Plan Of Study

Program Outcomes

Current MEPN Program (Curriculum thru Summer 2025)

  1. Synthesize knowledge from nursing, previous learning and life experiences as a basis for professional nursing practice.
  2. Provide, coordinate and manage health and illness care for individuals, families, clinical populations, and communities.
  3. Provide culturally appropriate, patient-centered care using the best evidence from research, literature and practice in the context of patient preferences, needs, beliefs and values.
  4. Apply clinically appropriate information technology to promote patient safety and health care quality.
  5. Implement evidence based practice and quality improvement strategies to optimize nursing care and patient outcomes.
  6. Demonstrate professional responsibility and accountability for nursing practice within legal and ethical standards.
  7. Use effective communication, collaborative and leadership skills to participate in and lead health care teams designed to improve patient and population health outcomes.
  8. Apply contemporary knowledge of complex organizational systems in the design, delivery and evaluation of health care.

Practice Ready Program Outcomes

Revised MEPN Program (Beginning Fall 2025)

  1. Integrate evolving nursing science and theory to make clinical judgments in practice that bridges knowledge from previous learning, and life experiences.
  2. Deliver quality person-centered care across the lifespan for diverse individuals, families, communities, and populations.
  3. Demonstrate culturally responsive care informed by evidence and cultural humility that incorporates context and individual expression, preferences, beliefs, and values that are inclusive of community and population-based care.
  4. Utilize information and multiple communication technologies with informatics and system processes to gather data and drive safe decision- making that includes collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams.
  5. Incorporate evidence informed practice with quality improvement strategies to promote optimal patient outcomes.
  6. Exemplify characteristics of professional nursing practice by upholding ethical and legal standards and demonstrating professional accountability.
  7. Employ effective intra and interprofessional communication, collaboration, and leadership within health care teams to support patient and population outcomes.
  8. Identify complex organizational systems that impact the design, delivery, access, and economics of healthcare.  
     

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Locations

UAHS Campus

UAHS Campus

Located on the University of Arizona Health Sciences Campus, right next to Main Campus, in the heart of Tucson, Arizona.

Gilbert Campus

Gilbert Campus

This program has a second location in Gilbert, Arizona, at 92 W. Vaughn Ave., Suite 301.