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)
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|
Credits
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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 |
|
(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 |
|
(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 |
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|
TOTAL CREDITS for NP |
41 |
TOTAL CREDITS for CNS |
42 |
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|
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. |