Master of Science in Nursing

Master of Science in Nursing (M.S.N.)

Program Goals

  1. Prepare master’s level professional nurses to provide ethical leadership and service by integrating knowledge into practice and applying quality principles for safe, holistic nursing care in advanced nursing roles.
  2. Provide a learning environment in which a Christian worldview of service, leadership, and reconciliation emphasizes the use of scientific knowledge, critical thinking, effective communication, and interprofessional collaboration to enhance nursing care and education directed at population health across diverse settings.
  3. Promote evidence-based knowledge for integration and dissemination across learning environments and the healthcare system.
  4. Provide an educational foundation for doctoral study and life long learning.
  5. Provide student-centered, evidence-based teaching and learning for nursing practice, leadership, service, and reconciliation.

Curricular Competencies

  1. Integrates knowledge from the science of nursing with the knowledge of other disciplines for the development of quality nursing care across diverse settings
  2. Applies leadership skills that emphasize ethical and critical decision making for the promotion of high quality and safe nursing care
  3. Applies quality principles to all areas of nursing practice
  4. Uses translational research skills for the integration of evidence-based findings into nursing practice through written and verbal scholarly communication
  5. Uses technology for the enhancement of communication and delivery of quality patient care
  6. Uses knowledge of healthcare policy to promote advocacy strategies for the promotion of health and healthcare     
  7. Uses professional written and verbal scholarly communication for interprofessional collaboration for leadership in the management and coordination of care
  8. Applies culturally humble care concepts in the planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of care across healthcare populations
  9. Applies an advanced level of understanding of nursing concepts to nursing practice in both direct and indirect care settings