While earning an MSN degree, you can expect to gain the following in your chosen specialization:

• Advanced theoretical knowledge
• Assessment skills
• Role/leadership development

The curriculum offers opportunities to critique and apply nursing theory and research as a scientific basis for nursing practice. Courses in each program of study are sequential, with the curriculum building on content.

• Analyze theoretical formulations as a basis for nursing practice, education, and administration.
• Apply and/or participate in research about the nature of health/illness and the practice of nursing.
• Utilize advanced clinical knowledge and skill to promote, maintain, and/or restore optimum wellness to client systems.
• Assume leadership roles in nursing practice, education, or administration.
• Assume responsibility for developing health care policy relative to social, ethical, legal, economic, and political issues that affect nursing.
• Organize and develop collaborative relationships for the improvement of health care on   an agency, organization, or legislative level.
• Synthesize knowledge from the biophysical, social, and nursing sciences that affects health/illness behavior or client systems as a basis for nursing practice, education, and administration.