Master of Science in Nursing with a concentration in Nurse Education

3 Credits

This course emphasizes the School of Nursing's philosophical framework for professional practice and the role of the graduate nurse as practitioner, leader, and researcher. Topics include conceptual models, nursing theory, theory frameworks, conceptual terms, and the utility and application of nursing theories in practice. A key focus is introducing students to various conceptual perspectives to guide new ideas, research questions, and interpretations in nursing practice.

3 Credits

This course focuses on the role of the graduate nurse in research processes and evidence-based nursing practice. The key concepts focus on the process of translating knowledge influenced from quantitative and qualitative research into clinical guidelines. Topics include research methodologies and designs, statistical measures, data analysis, and the role of the nurse as scientist.

3 Credits

This course integrates the principles, theories, and models of leadership used in advanced nursing roles. A key focus is determining one's personal identity as a nurse leader. Topics include complexities in health delivery systems, leadership in the current health care environment, and the future of nursing.

3 Credits

This course analyzes the role of the graduate-level nurse as a leader in the profession as a steward of financial management. Topics include principles in financial and resource management, budgetary cost controls, fiscal responsibility, and health care policies and reform. A key concept is the interrelationship between health policy, legislation, regulation, finance, and practice.

3 Credits

This course presents an integrated approach to advanced pathophysiology, health assessment, and pharmacology. A key focus is using evidence to guide assessment, evaluate disease process and pharmacological interventions, and plan patient education. This course has required lab hours in which students perform and document health assessments in a virtual environment.

3 Credits

This course presents theories and techniques for performing and documenting comprehensive health assessments across the life span. Topics include physiological, psychological, spiritual, sociocultural, and developmental variables of patients. This course requires 10 lab hours allowing students to demonstrate a complete health assessment.

3 Credits

3 Credits

Developing curriculum that aligns to the program's mission, standards, and outcomes is important in creating an effective program. Delivering curriculum to a diverse population in an organized fashion, taking into consideration the best modality for delivery, promotes engagement and critical thinking skills. Learners will analyze current trends and issues in curriculum design, evaluate innovations and technologies used to develop engaging curriculum, and determine best practices for course improvement.

3 Credits

Nurse educators count on reliable and valid information to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational program. Thoughtful creation of evaluation tools that align to an educational taxonomy is an important step in order to obtain qualitative and quantitative data that informs the nurse educator about how well learners are performing. Communicating assessment and evaluation results to others, and gaining their input, provides the nurse educator the opportunity to make curricular improvements based on stakeholder feedback. Learners will evaluate assessment methods used to measure performance and improve educational programs, and develop a communication strategy to share results with stakeholders.

3 Credits

3 Credits

The capstone experience for the Master of Nursing programs is offered through a set of two (3-credit, 30-practicum hour) courses: NSG/516 and NSG/517. Together, these courses guide the student through the following stages of the practicum project: needs assessment, development plan, implementation, deconstruction, evaluation, and dissemination.

3 Credits

The capstone experience for the Master of Nursing programs is offered through a set of two (3-credit, 30-practicum hour) courses: NSG/516 and NSG/517. Together, these courses guide the student through the following stages of the practicum project: needs assessment, development plan, implementation, deconstruction, evaluation, and dissemination.