Susan Johnson, Ph.D., RN, Dean of Health Sciences
Mary Kishman, Ph.D., RN, Chairperson of Nursing Department
The Master of Nursing (MN) is a graduate entry-level degree into the profession of nursing for individuals who already hold a non-nursing baccalaureate degree. The program is designed to prepare the student at a higher level than a traditional BSN program, by offering courses that emphasize research, evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning, and theoretical perspectives in nursing. Students complete the program in 15 months. Sixteen credit hours are taken in each of the four semesters, which include classroom and clinical learning activities.
Upon completion of the MN program, students apply and take the National Council for Licensure Examination (NCLEX) to become licensed to practice as a registered nurse.
The mission of the Master of Nursing program is to prepare women and men as liberally educated professional nurses to use a primary health care model as the basis of evidence-based practice in a variety of community-focused settings. The Nursing program is conditionally approved by the Ohio Board of Nursing, and accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, One Dupont Circle NW, Suite 530, Washington DC 20036-1120, (202) 887-6791. The program provides the learning environment for students’ development of competencies in assessment, communication, critical thinking, decision-making, problem solving, and therapeutic nursing interventions across the life span. These concepts and principles are integrated throughout the students’ educational program and form the basis for a value centered approach to caring for individuals, families, aggregates, populations-at-risk, and communities.
The graduate of the Master of Nursing Program is able to:
- Use critical thinking and scholarly inquiry when providing culturally-sensitive professional nursing care to promote health, prevent and treat illness, and maintain function across the life span.
- Communicate effectively and professionally with individuals, families, groups, and populations with diverse needs across the lifespan.
- Analyze epidemiological, environmental, cultural, and physiological aspects to provide care to diverse populations in an ever-changing world.
- Utilize knowledge of the health care delivery system and effective leadership and management principles to influence the delivery, organization, and financing of health care.
- Synthesize theoretical, scientific, legal, ethical, and regulatory information when providing care and advocating for clients with diverse needs across the lifespan.
- Utilize information literacy as the foundation for evidence-based practice to enhance knowledge, scholarly inquiry, and client care.