Nursing, MSN

The MSN program at MidAmerica Nazarene University prepares nursing professionals for advanced roles in nursing education, as well as healthcare administration and quality.  Graduates are equipped to educate, lead, and inspire others, fostering excellence in healthcare delivery.  Rooted in MidAmerica’s mission of nurturing a Christlike community in pursuing academic excellence and a passion to serve, the graduate nursing program emphasizes faith integration, leadership, professionalism, and innovation.  Through a focus on quality and safety, informatics, person-centered care, interdisciplinary collaboration, and population health, the MSN program provides a comprehensive framework to promote and advance professional nursing practice.

Healthcare Administration & Quality prepares nurse leaders to apply leadership, evaluate quality systems, implement evidence-based quality initiatives, maximize quality-based reimbursement and management skills within healthcare organizations. Students develop expertise in the management of human and fiscal resources, care delivery systems, quality and regulatory compliance, and strategic and financial planning. This online track has a total of 33 required credit hours and 90 clinical/practicum hours.

Nursing Education prepares nurse leaders to excel as educators in healthcare facilities or as faculty members in schools of nursing. Students apply learning theories, curriculum development methods, clinical simulation experiences and innovative assessment skills in the professional education environment. This online track has a total of 37 required credit hours and 225 clinical/practicum hours. 

Masters of Science in Nursing and Masters of Business Administration, dual degree (MSN/MBA) designed for the licensed registered nurse with a BSN degree who wishes to pursue both an MSN degree, Healthcare Administration and Masters of Business Administration degree.  This online and onground track has a total of 51 required credit hours and 90 clinical/practicum hours. 

Post Graduate Certificates: The MSN post graduate certificate in Healthcare Administration and Quality and Nursing Education are designed to educate administrators and educators for academic and healthcare systems. 

Program Outcomes:

By the end of program completion, MNU graduate nursing students will demonstrate achievement of the following outcomes:

1. Faith Integration: Appreciate sacred Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience as the foundation to know the triune God - Father, Son, Spirit; as such, generating a deepened spiritual journey and allowing faith to guide advanced professional nursing practice.
2. Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Integrate, translate, and apply established and evolving knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to formulate sound clinical judgment and propose innovation in nursing practice.
3. Person Centered-Care: Design, deliver and evaluate comprehensive personalized healthcare that demonstrates a compassionate understanding of the patient’s development, social contexts, and values, as well as evidence-based practice.
4. Population Health: Analyze population health data to identify trends and disparities and propose evidence-based interventions. Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders across the care continuum to design and implement health promotion and disease prevention strategies for the improvement of equitable healthcare outcomes.
5. Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline: Generate, synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate nursing knowledge to improve health and transform healthcare.
6. Quality and Safety: Apply established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science to enhance quality and minimize harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
7. Interprofessional Partnerships: Evaluate the effectiveness of interprofessional collaboration in optimizing patient care and outcomes. Propose innovative strategies for fostering collaborative relationships across professions and with care team members, including patients, families, and communities to enhance the healthcare experience and strengthen outcomes.
8. Systems-Based Practice: Support healthcare as a complex, adaptive and nuanced system and effectively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
9. Informatics and Healthcare Technology: Evaluate and integrate information and communication technologies and informatics processes that meet regulatory and professional standards and help manage and improve the delivery of safe, efficient, quality care.
10. Professionalism: Develop and cultivate a sustainable professional identity that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values and demonstrates accountability, perspective, a collaborative disposition, and comportment.
11. Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development: Acquire nursing expertise and affirm leadership through participating in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, well-being, and life-long learning.

MSN Admission Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from an accredited college or university with a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.0 (on 4.0 scale) *. (Some students may be accepted on a provisional basis with a minimum GPA of 2.8.)
• Completion (C or better) of undergraduate statistics. Applicants who have not completed an undergraduate statistics course with a grade of “C” or better will be required to take an undergraduate statistics course at some point during their MSN program.
• An active, unencumbered RN license in the United States.
• Students are conditionally admitted until the completion of the MSN Online Orientation which must be completed before the beginning of the first module.

Application Process:

• Complete online application
• Submit official transcripts from an accredited college or university verifying earned BSN degree
• Submit copy of active, unencumbered RN license in the U.S.

Curriculum Plan:

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Progression, Retention, and Dismissal Policies:

Academic Progression and Remediation in the Master of Science in Nursing Program - Healthcare Administration & Quality and Nursing Education

1. Students must comply with all rules and regulations of the MSN Program as outlined in the MidAmerica Nazarene University MSN Nursing Student Handbook and the MidAmerica Nazarene University Catalog.
2. Students must complete the MSN Program within six years, from the start of the first course to the end of the last course.
3. Students must complete each required course with a grade of B- (80%) or better.
   1. In the event that a grade of B- (80%) or better is not achieved, in a single course, the student may progress. However, if the student does not achieve a second grade of B- (80%) or better one of the courses must be repeated at the full tuition price, according to the MSN Remediation Policy.
   2. In the event that a grade of C- (70%) or better is not achieved in a course, the course must be repeated at the full tuition price.
   3. A maximum of two MSN courses may be repeated at MNU
   4. A student may repeat a single MSN course a maximum of one time.
   5. In the event that a student achieves three grades below B- (80%), or two grades below C- (70%), the student is dismissed from the MSN program.