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The Master of Science (MSN) in Nursing Education: Academic Nursing is designed for professional nurses seeking faculty positions in entry-level or graduate nursing education programs to teach in the classroom, clinical environment, or online. Courses focus on contemporary curriculum design, instructional methodologies, student assessment, and program evaluation methods. Completion of two preceptor-facilitated practicums provides students the opportunity to transfer knowledge to the actual academic environment.
Our flexible, online program with experiential learning offers professional growth and career trajectory toward successful transition into the professorial role in an academic setting.
Graduates are eligible, depending on employment role and work history, to apply for any of the three National League for Nursing (NLN) Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) examinations. NLN-CNE designation indicates exceptional proficiencies in the field of nursing education.
MSN Program Highlights
- 224 hours of expert academician preceptor-facilitated experiential learning
- A nursing education core curriculum course in Online Education & Instructional Design in Academic Nursing
- Program outcomes incorporate the NLN competencies for nurse educators
Program Outcomes
- Integrate and translate established and evolving disciplinary knowledge, principles, and theories from nursing and related sciences into advanced nursing specialty practice. (Domain 1)
- Demonstrate expertise in a defined area of advanced nursing practice specialty/role that is person- and family-centered, culturally responsive, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. (Domain 2)
- Interpret data and develop holistic plans of care, collaborating in traditional and non-traditional partnerships, to improve equity in population health outcomes. (Domain 3)
- Initiate change and improve quality outcomes through research translation and evidence appraisal. (Domain 4)
- Evaluate and integrate established and emerging quality and safety science principles to minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both individual performance and system effectiveness. (Domain 5)
- Facilitate and direct interprofessional collaborative interventions using a shared decision-making model with patients, families, and communities to optimize care and improve outcomes. (Domain 6)
- Evaluate and optimize relevant resources to manage change within complex systems to provide safe, inclusive, high-quality, equitable, and cost-effective health care to diverse populations. (Domain 7)
- Evaluate and incorporate information and communication technology and informatics processes in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards to deliver safe, high-quality and efficient healthcare innovations that improve health equity and outcomes. (Domain 8)
- Model core professional values that integrate competency, accountability, ethical behavior, integrity, and empathetic communication into one’s advanced nursing specialty practice /role. (Domain 9)
- Utilize critical reflection to prompt personal and professional wellbeing that fosters resilience, enables lifelong learning, and supports the development of nursing leadership attributes. (Domain 10)
- Integrate relevant knowledge, principles and theories from nursing and related sciences into the advanced nursing care of individuals, families and populations. (Essential I)
- Demonstrate acumen in organizational leadership through effective collaboration,consultation, and decision-making. (Essential II)
- Integrate research translation and evidence appraisal into advanced nursing practice to initiate change and improve quality outcomes.(Essential IV)
- Evaluate information science approaches and patient-centric technologies to improve health outcomes and enhance quality of care. (Essentials III, V)
- Analyze the impact policies, economic factors, and ethical and socio-cultural dimensions have on advanced nursing practice and health care outcomes. (Essential VI)
- Integrate the concepts of interprofessional communication, collaboration and consultation to effectively manage and coordinate care across systems. (Essential VII)
- Incorporate culturally-appropriate concepts in the planning and delivery of evidence-based preventive and clinical care to communities, and populations. (Essential VIII)
- Demonstrate expertise in a defined area of advanced practice nursing that influences health care outcomes for individuals, populations and systems. (Essential IX)