The MSN core curriculum is designed to increase the BSN prepared nurse's knowledge and skills in the areas of:

  • leadership, quality and finance
  • advanced health assessment, physiology and pharmacology
  • evidence-based nursing practice
  • nursing informatics
  • complex healthcare systems and populations
  • advanced practice nursing roles

The program's two areas of specialization provide courses which prepare nurses to assume roles in leadership of complex healthcare systems and as educators in a variety of settings including academics, community education, and acute and long-term care based patient and staff education.??