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. Demonstrate clinical judgment in nursing science and practice to synthesize, translate, and integrate established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing.
  2. Provide person-centered, evidenced-based care that considers social determinants of health and is holistic, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, and uses developmentally appropriate approaches focused on diverse individuals, families, and communities across complex contexts.

  3. Promote equitable, inclusive, culturally sensitive population health across diverse settings and levels of care through collaborative engagement to improve outcomes that consider social determinants of health.

  4. Generate, synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate evidence-based nursing knowledge using verbal and written scholarly communication to improve health and transform health care.
  5. Enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers by employing established, emerging, and ethical principles of safety and improvement science through system effectiveness and individual performance.
  6. Collaborate and intentionally communicate across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, policy makers, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
  7. Coordinate resources to support systems-based practice through high-quality, equitable, compassionate, ethical care and advocacy for safe practice policy within diverse complex health systems.
  8. Use information and communication technologies to proficiently provide care, gather data, evaluate programs of care and support quality improvement and drive decision making.
  9. Demonstrate sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, ethical reasoning, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values from a Christian worldview.
  10. Integrate personal health, resilience, well-being, and life-long learning in support of the acquisition of nursing expertise, clinical judgement, and assertion of leadership.