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2020 Graduate Catalog 1.1 (WINTER-SPRING) 
    
2020 Graduate Catalog 1.1 (WINTER-SPRING) [ARCHIVED CATALOG - Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Nursing Education (M.S.)


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The Masters of Science in Nursing Education prepares advanced practice nurses to educate practicing and future nurses, as an educator in clinical settings or as faculty in schools of nursing.

Nursing Education Program Goals

1. Integrate the scientific findings in nursing with the related sciences needed to fully analyze, design, implement, and evaluate nursing care.

2. Execute leadership by initiating, maintaining, and demonstrating skills in care coordination, delegation, and initiating conflict resolution strategies.

3. Promote safe, high quality care through the ability to monitor, analyze, and prioritize outcomes that need to be improved for individuals, families, communities and clinical populations.

4. Use critical reflection to translate evidence and integrate scholarship into advanced nursing practice. 5. Incorporate current technologies to deliver and coordinate care across multiple settings.

6. Apply requisite knowledge and skills to promote health, help shape the health delivery system, and advance values like social justice through policy processes and advocacy.

7. Actively communicate, collaborate, and consult with other health professionals to manage and coordinate care across systems.

8. Design and ensure the delivery of clinical prevention interventions and population-based care that promotes health, reduces the risk of chronic illness, and prevents disease.

9. Facilitate commitment to a culture of nursing excellence through lifelong personal and professional development.

10. Create environments that facilitate student learning and achievement of identified outcomes.

11. Function as a change agent and leader in the evolution of nursing education and practice.

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