Overview
Learning Outcomes
Graduates of the program are expected to:
- Integrate nursing science with other disciplines as the basis for the highest level of evidence-based advanced nursing practice to address health disparities and to improve the quality of healthcare.
- Demonstrate and promote professionalism, advocacy, social justice, equity, ethical principles, and scientific integrity in advanced nursing practice.
- Engage in and promote intra and inter-professional collaboration in clinical practice models, health policy, and standards of care for individuals, families, and communities across culturally diverse populations.
- Generate system and outcomes research and analyze evidence from nursing and related sciences to translate findings into practice.
- Utilize current and emerging information systems/technology to support, evaluate, and improve: nursing care, healthcare systems, and patient and population health.
- Synthesize and use appropriate theories, concepts and scientific data to support, evaluate and improve patient and population health.
- Assume leadership in advanced practice, health policy, mentoring, scholarship, and scientific inquiry.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Health and Health Care Policy
- Nursing Leadership in Complex Systems
- Philosophy of Scientific Practice
- Evidence Based Practice and Translational Resea
- Ethical and Societal Issues within Healthcare
- Transformation of Healthcare
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 60 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Student insurance
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree in nursing from a program accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission or the Collegiate Commission on Nursing Education or
- Hold a bachelor’s degree in nursing from a program accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission or the Collegiate Commission on Nursing Education and master’s degree in nursing or a business/health related field [e.g., MBA, MPH, MHA).
- Submit online application and meet admission requirements of Graduate School.
- Have a minimum cumulative graduate grade-point average of 3.00 on a 4.00 scale for previous college work.
- Have completed 3 credit hours of graduate-level statistics within 2 years of admission.
- Achieve competitive score on the verbal and quantitative portions of the Graduate Record Examination if undergraduate GPA is below 3.30. If undergraduate GPA is 3.30 or above, then applicants are exempt from the GRE requirement.
Tuition Fee
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