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Master's Medical-Surgical Nursing Program Requirements (NP and CNS)

The Medical-Surgical Nursing program is purposefully flexible, designed to allow students a large degree of freedom in choosing electives and tailoring the program to their specific professional objectives.

All Master's degree-granting programs in the School of Nursing require students to take a set of core courses comprising of 12 semester hours. In addition, students in the Medical-Surgical program are expected to complete a minimum of 17 credit hours of specialty courses. Students must also complete two cognate courses (a minimum of 4 credit hours). The minimum number of credits for successful completion of the program is 41.

Core Courses
(12 credit hours)

 

Credits

N532 Theoretical Base for Advanced Nursing Practice

3

N535 Strategy for Nursing and Health Care

3

N536 Utilization of Nursing Research in Advanced Practice*

2

N603 Data Management, Analysis and Representation for Advanced Practice in Nursing

2

N699 Nursing Scholarly Project

2

    Total Core Credits

(12)

Nursing Specialty Courses for NP & CNS
(17 credit hours)

N503 Advanced Health Assessment

3

N505 Bio-Behavior I

3

N506 Bio-Behavior II

3

N507 Clinical Practicum I

2

N508 Clinical Practicum II

2

N608 Topics in Advanced Nursing Practice Specialty I

2

N609 Topics in Advanced Nursing Practice Specialty II

2

    Total Specialty Credits

(17)

Nursing Requirements for NP
(12 credit hours)

N582 Advanced Nurse Practitioner Skills Lab

2

N585 Advanced Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practicum

3

P659 Pharmacology I

3

P660 Pharmacology II

4

Nursing Requirements for CNS
(13 credit hours)

N520 Clinical Nurse Specialist: Role Practicum

3

N657 Clinical Nurse Specialist: Innovation & Change

3

P659 Pharmacology I

3

P660 Pharmacology II

4

   

TOTAL CREDITS for NP

41

TOTAL CREDITS for CNS

42

 

The University reserves the right to make any necessary changes in curriculum.

*An approved statistics and undergraduate research course must be taken before registering for N536.

For more information contact:

University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 N. Ingalls , Room 2160
Ann Arbor , MI 48109-5482
Phone: (734) 763-0010
E-mail: div1info@umich.edu

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