MSN 506 — Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Nursing Practice — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
This course provides the learners with theoretical foundations in nursing. Learners examine the relationship of nursing theories to the development of nursing science. The course focuses on the relationships between theories, research, and nursing practice with current scientific advances.
MSN 508 — Future of Nursing and Healthcare Policy — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
This course allows students to research, develop, and discuss advanced nursing and healthcare systems policies. Advocating for effective policies impacting nursing and its stakeholders is another vital component of this course.
MSN 510 — Advanced Research Methodologies and Analysis-Evidence Based Practice — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
These learners receive knowledge regarding integral components of evidence-based practice with research to foster scholarship and holistic and person-centered care in diverse healthcare environments.
Content interconnected to problem identification, research methodologies, critique of findings and literature, and application to evidence-based practice is presented. Developing an evidence-based project focusing on quality improvement or safety will allow students to practice learned principles.
MSN 512 — Financial Resource Management — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
This course introduces students to financial management concepts in healthcare. Emphasis is placed on resource allocation in healthcare organizations. Students will study the theory and practice of financial management relevant to healthcare delivery organizations.
The following elements will be discussed to enhance understanding of key concepts, including accounting practices, financial and policy issues, financial control techniques, financial decision-making, and reading and analyzing financial statements.
MSN 514 — Leadership and Management in Nursing and Healthcare — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
This course presents the management functions and leadership roles of professional and contemporary nursing within an organizational structure. The management operations (staffing, planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling) prepare the structure for the course.
The imperative focus is given to organizational, behavior, and management theories. Methods of inquiry, including the nursing process, problem-solving models, and decision-making, are emphasized as tools for analyzing intricate leadership and management complications common to nursing leaders and managers.
Emphasis is also provided on collaborative relationships, quality assurance accountability in nursing care, and multidisciplinary communication. Complex ethical issues in management are discussed, as legal authority for nursing practice and the impact of legislative and political processes.
MSN 516 — Advanced Healthcare Technology & Informatics — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
This course presents the informatics nurse’s functions, role, scope, and standards of practice to the learner. Students will analyze, explore, implement, and evaluate diverse aspects of nursing informatics practice as a specialization.
Topics include utilizing and implementing technology for virtual care delivery and monitoring and focusing on complementary roles of the master’s-prepared informatics nurse specialist and other information-technology professionals.
MSN 600 — Advanced Health Assessment, Pathophysiology, Pharmacology — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
This course content builds upon undergraduate nursing education and practice experience, concentrating on and further developing nursing knowledge and skills related to health assessment, pharmacology, and pathophysiology across the lifespan. The vital focal point is on advanced and contemporary knowledge and skills in direct- and indirect-care roles that nurse educators need.
MSN 602 — Curriculum Development — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
The main focus of this course highlights the processes of curriculum development. Students will research traditional and innovative approaches to program development implemented in various educational environments. Curriculum and instruction are examined within a theoretical framework.
MSN 604 — Teaching and Learning Process and Strategies — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
The main focus of this course is to highlight the various teaching strategies and appraisal of the approaches utilized to provide an effective learning environment. The teaching strategies evaluated are reviewed and applied in the nurse educator role and nursing education practice. This course will help in the role of an educator by acquiring skills that can offer a more versatile approach to teaching strategies.
Learners will compare and contrast methods to enhance lessons, materialism, and evaluation instruments throughout the course. The course will instruct the students on implementing research findings, comparative teaching strategies, and the relationships between teaching strategies and learning/teaching styles.
MSN 605 — Nursing Practicum A – Clinical Nurse Educator — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
This course allows learners to apply concepts and expand skills in curriculum development, classroom and clinical teaching, and assessment methods in an educator role within the learner’s specialization. The student may select from various opportunities in clinical settings with staff nurses, patients, and nurse educators in clinical and academic settings.
Students will acquire experience networking with administrators, faculty, and support service personnel in their chosen institution(s). The student will complete 45 hours (3 credits) of practicum in an educator role. This course is intended to meet the ABHES requirement for a culminating assessment.
MSN 606 — Assessment and Evaluation of Learning — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
This course assesses and examines the theory, logic, and practice of educational measurement. Comparisons are made between evaluation concepts and assessments, frameworks, and models.
These will also be analyzed for relevancy and applicability in the curriculum development quality assurance processes. The practical application of measurement theory to constructing and utilizing educational evaluation instruments is supported.
MSN 607 — Nursing Practicum B – Academic Nurse Educator — 45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of BSN Degree and Active RN License.
This course allows learners to apply concepts and expand skills in curriculum development, classroom and clinical teaching, and assessment methods in an educator role within the learner’s specialization. The student may select from various opportunities in clinical settings with staff nurses, patients, and nurse educators in clinical and academic settings.
Students will acquire experience networking with administrators, faculty, and support service personnel in their chosen institution(s). The student will complete 45 hours (3 credits) of practicum in an educator role. This course is intended to meet the ABHES requirement for a culminating assessment.
