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Nov 23, 2024
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Graduate Catalog | 2024-2025
Nursing: Community/Public Health Nursing, M.S.N.
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**This is a Distance Education program.**
The Community/Public Health Nursing concentration prepares nurses to assume leadership in assessing communities and populations, identifying high risk groups, and in partnership with communities, consumers, and stakeholders, developing culturally sensitive, acceptable and realistic community-based nursing services.
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Admission Requirements
- Current unrestricted licensure as a Registered Nurse; current license in North Carolina or a compact state or the state identified by faculty for clinical practice before enrollment
- Baccalaureate degree in Nursing from a college or university accredited by an accepted accrediting body. If the degree is not in Nursing and courses in Research, Leadership/Management, Aging and Health and Community Health are lacking, additional coursework in these areas will be required as part of the program of study (option available only to Nurse Administration, Community/Public Health Nursing, and Nurse Educator concentrations)
- One year of professional nursing practice is recommended
- An essay (statement of purpose) describing the applicant’s experience and objective in undertaking graduate study in the chosen concentration, including the qualities making them a strong applicant (See the School of Nursing website for required elements of the Purpose Statement)
- Overall GPA of at least 3.0 in the last degree earned
- Completion of a statistics course with a grade of C or above
- See School of Nursing website for admission deadlines
Core Courses (9 credit hours)
Cognate Courses (6 credit hours)
Elective Course (3 credit hours)
Select one of the following:
- NURS 6185 - Theory and Application in the Organizational Behavior to Nursing Systems (3)
- NURS 6187 - Financial, Human, and Information Technology Resource Management in Complex Systems (3)
- NURS 6188 - Application of Nursing Informatics in Strategic Planning and Decision-Making (3)
- NURS 6275 - Health Promotion, Nutrition, and Wellness for Older Adults (3)
- NURS 6282 - Interprofessional Collaboration in Healthcare (3)
- NURS 6301 - Curriculum and Instruction in Nursing Education (3)
- NURS 6302 - Trends and Issues in Nursing Education (3)
- NURS 6303 - Instructional Technology in Nursing Education (3)
- ELDT 5100 - Technology Integration in Education (3)
- ELDT 6000 - Topics in Learning, Design, and Technology (1 to 6)
- ELDT 6100 - Foundations of Learning, Design, and Technology (3)
- ELDT 6101 - Learning Principles in Learning, Design, and Technology (3)
- ELDT 6110 - Instructional Design (3)
- ELDT 6135 - Learning Media, Resources, and Technology (3)
System Core Courses (6 credit hours)
Concentration Courses (11 credit hours)
Capstone Course (3 credit hours)
Additional Requirements
This concentration also requires the completion of 360 hours of supervised clinical practicum.
Degree Total = 38 Credit Hours
Grade Requirements
Students must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or above.
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