An M.S.N. degree prepares nurses for advanced practice in nursing administration, nursing education, and as a family nurse practitioner. Registered Nurses with this degree promote community healthcare and lead change in the ever growing health delivery system.
Three tracks are available
IU Northwest Master’s Degree Program Outcomes
Graduates of the IU Northwest School of Nursing MSN program will:
- Model excellence in nursing leadership to improve nursing practice within a complex healthcare system.
- Perform advanced nursing practice within ethical/legal guidelines, professional policies and regulations, and standards of practice associated with a specialty area of practice.
- Synthesize knowledge from nursing as well as biological, behavioral, social, administrative, educational, and communication sciences for application to a chosen domain of advanced practice nursing.
- Demonstrate scholarly inquiry and reflection that exemplifies critical, creative, and systems thinking to advance the practice of nursing.
- Frame problems, design interventions, specify outcomes and measure outcome achievement while balancing human, fiscal, and material resources to achieve quality health outcomes.
- Use information technology and knowledge based resources to manage and transform data that informs clinical practice.
- Systemically apply knowledge from research findings and best evidence to answer clinical questions, solve clinical problems and develop innovative nursing interventions and health policies for selected patient populations.
- Demonstrate collaborative practice and interpret nursing science within an interdisciplinary context.
- Articulate the effects of culture, diversity, values, and globalization in the design, delivery, and evaluation of health services.
- Engage in life-long learning activities that contribute to professional development as well as the advancement of nursing.
Master of Science in Nursing
Candidates for the Master of Science in Nursing degree must receive a grade of B- or above in all didactic courses and a grade of "S" (satisfactory in all clinical courses). Total credits required are:
- MSN- FNP Track- 42 credits
- MSN- Nursing Education and Nursing Administration- 36 credits
