Master of Science in Nursing, MSN

The College of Nursing offers the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) with three subprogram focus areas: entry into practice, clinical nurse leader (CNL), and nursing systems administration (NSA).

Learning Outcomes

Clinical Nurse Leader and Nursing Systems Administration

Graduates will be able to:

  • lead unit-level teams to achieve nursing and organizational goals;
  • collect, decipher, and analyze data to produce action plans to improve quality;
  • promote the adoption, integration, and sustainability of evidence-based practices;
  • pursue lifelong learning to support one's professional identity; and
  • design innovative nursing practice environments for patient care and the workforce.

Entry Into Practice

Graduates will be able to:

  • ensure delivery of safe quality nursing care to diverse individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations throughout the lifespan and across systems of care;
  • integrate theoretical and scientific knowledge gained from natural and social sciences and culture, society, and the liberal arts into nursing;
  • use leadership skills across systems of care to promote equitable, safe, and quality health care outcomes;
  • use the best evidence from multiple ways of knowing to inform practice to make clinical judgments, solve problems, and address systems improvements;
  • analyze how health care policy, regulation, technology, and economics impact nursing practice and the delivery of care;
  • use effective interprofessional communication and collaboration strategies to promote quality health outcomes;
  • apply health promotion and disease prevention strategies to diverse individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations to promote quality health outcomes;
  • demonstrate professional values fundamental to the discipline of nursing; and
  • apply evidence-based, person-centered care services across the health care continuum.