The Connell School of Nursing master's degree programs prepare nurses to excel as care-givers and as leaders. Our students know that nursing leadership demands both the ability to make sound clinical decisions and the wisdom to step back and analyze the health care environment in which they work. They understand the importance of ethical principles in clinical judgement and patient advocacy. They are committed to shaping the future of their profession.
Our MS programs offer a strong combination of clinical experience and theoretical grounding, supported by a faculty that personifies excellence in both.
More than 85 percent of the full-time faculty hold doctoral degrees, and faculty members regularly publish their research findings in scholarly journals such as Nursing Research, Research in Nursing and Health, The Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners, and Nursing Ethics.
At the same time, faculty brings a wealth of clinical experience to the classroom. In all clinical specialties, many faculty continue their own clinical practice in various health care settings. This enables them to integrate their clinical work into their teaching and research, and provides graduate students with added opportunities to work alongside faculty in real clinical settings.
The MS programs also offer flexibility in routes of admission: a regular master's route; an entry opyion for non-nursing graduates; and RN to MS route; a post-master's program for additional clinical specialization; and dual degree options. All prepare students for advanced nursing practice as nurse practitioners or clinical nurse specialists in eight distinct clinical specialties.
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