Information for Students
Master of Nursing
Take it to the Next Level
Overview
The College of Nursing offers course-based or thesis options leading to the Master of Nursing degree. The program will prepare nurses with advanced clinical knowledge and expertise. One of the options is the Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner option.
The objectives of the program are that a student completing any MN program would be able to:
- articulate perspectives on nursing
- critique, utilize, and contribute to theoretical and empirical knowledge bases for nursing
- develop, implement, and evaluate strategies for advanced nursing practice at the client and system level; and
- demonstrate leadership skills needed to influence change
The graduate will be able to assume:
- Leadership/advanced practice roles in health care
- Educator roles in service and educational institutions
- Research roles in terms of generation and utilization of nursing knowledge
- Further study at the doctoral level