Program Mission
The Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at Trine University will proved a quality, innovative educational experience that produces graduate nurses capable of delivering safe, culturally and contextually relevant, evidence-based care, education, and leadership in a variety of environments while also preparing them to positively impact individuals, groups, and communities through scholarship, leadership, and service.
Student Learning Outcomes
By the end of the program the student will be able to meet the outcomes expected of graduates of master's degree programs in nursing.
Essential I: Background from Practice from Sciences and Humanities
Recognizes that the master's-prepared nurse integrates scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings.
Essential II: Organizational and Systems Leadership
Recognizes that organizational and systems leadership are critical to the promotion of high quality and safe patient care. Leadership skills are needed that emphasize ethical and critical decision making, effective working relationships, and systems-perspective.
Essential III: Quality Improvement and Safety
Recognizes that a master's-prepared nurse must be articulate in the methods, tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality, as well as prepared to apply quality principles within an organization.
Essential IV: Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practice
Recognizes that the master's-prepared nurse applies research outcomes within the practice setting, resolves practice problems, works as a change agent, and disseminates results.
Essential V: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
Recognizes that a master's-prepared nurse uses patient-care technologies to deliver and enhance care and uses communication technologies to integrate and coordinate care.
Essential VI: Health Policy and Advocacy
Recognizes that a master's-prepared nurse is able to intervene at the system level through the policy development process and employ advocacy strategies to influence health and health care.
Essential VII: Inter-professional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes
Recognizes that a master's-prepared nurse, as a member and leader of inter-professional teams, communicates, collaborates, and consults with other health professionals to manage and coordinate care.
Essential VIII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving Health
Recognizes that a master's-prepared nurse applies and integrates broad, organizational, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts in the planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinical prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and aggregates/identifies populations.
Essential IX: Master's Level Nursing Practice
Recognizes that nursing practice, at the master's level, is broadly defined as any form of nursing intervention that influences healthcare outcomes for individuals, populations, or systems. Master's level nursing graduates must have an advanced level of understanding of nursing and relevant sciences as well as the ability to integrate this knowledge into practice. Nursing practice interventions include both direct and indirect care components.
Accreditation
The Master of Science in Nursing is an applicant for accreditation with the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). Additional accreditation information can be found at https://www.aacnnursing.org/CCNE.
Degree Requirements
Nursing Core - 15 hours
Requirements
Specialization Track Options 19 hours
Choose either Option 1: Nurse Educator Specialization Track or Option 2: Nurse Leadership Specialization Track
Option 1: Nursed Educator Specialization Track
Option 2: Nurse Leadership Specialization Track