This degree is required for all registered nurses looking to broaden their horizons and career opportunities. This program focuses primarily on risk reduction, health promotion, disease prevention ethics, information and health care technologies. Also covered will be management theory, human diversity, health care systems and their polices and, most importantly, leadership. The program also features a requisite clinical course, a professional development plan -- which includes planning for career and a capstone course.
Not only does this program give registered nurses the education they need to enhance their clinical skills, but it also gives them tools to deal with the increasingly complex demands of patients. The program will also qualify them for employment in various nursing and management specialties. This program is also a wonderful stepping-stone for students interested in pursing graduate nursing studies.
By the end of the program, students will know how to integrate theoretical and empirical knowledge from the humanities, behavioral and biophysical sciences and nursing as a basis for formulating nursing practice decisions.
Students will also synthesize core knowledge, competencies and professional values in the delivery of nursing care to individuals and groups within the three professional nursing roles -- provider of care, manager of care and member of the profession.
Graduates will incorporate nursing leadership skills within the three nursing roles and evaluate research for application and utilization in the nursing practice.
Nursing students will have the tools to analyze methods that integrate and evaluate health care technologies in the delivery of nursing care as well as incorporate ethical, political, legal and economic values into their professional practice.
Lastly, graduates will participate in the improvement of the nursing profession, the health care system and the formulation of health policy while they appraise their own professional growth toward the achievement of self-initiated goals.