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Masters of Science with
a Major in Nursing (MS)
The College of Education, Engineering, and Professional Studies
Department of Nursing offers a Master of Science with a Major in
Nursing (MS). An emphasis offered is the Acute-Care Nurse
Practitioner (ACNP), a relatively new professional focus in which
students may emphasize areas such as critical care, cardiology,
pulmonary, neurology, oncology, or trauma. Graduates are prepared to
assume primary responsibility in hospitals, clinics, emergency
rooms, urgent-care centers, and other health care settings.
The Department's philosophy that client's needs are found on a
continuum of wellness and urgency is evident in the curriculum. The
curriculum is integrated allowing for students to truly experience
clients as they present no matter the setting or degree of illness.
Graduates depending on their emphasis provide direct care for
clients with acute and chronic
conditions in emergent and non-emergent situations for all age
groups. No other Colorado institution of
higher education currently offers a graduate degree in nursing with
an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner emphasis. Upon completion of
additional clinical practice and or theory courses, the graduate may
apply for certification in other areas of clinical concentration in
Adult Acute Care and Family Nurse Practitioner which is facilitated
through an integrated curricula. The program also
offers a Clinical Nurse Specialist Emphasis that allows the student
to choose
their own specialization. The Program has developed a degree plan
for the Clinical Nurse Specialist Emphasis, allowing the student to choose either the Nurse Educator
or the Psychiatric Mental Health specialization.
GRADUATE PROGRAM GOALS
The program will:
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Prepare
advanced practice nursing (APN) graduates to provide quality
care along the continuum of aging in multiple environments
utilizing the nursing process.
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Facilitate
competent care of human needs through multi-theoretical
perspectives leading to competence in role development.
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Nurture,
improve, and further the development of critical thinking
through commitment, compassion, clinical confidence, and
competence.
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Incorporate
into the curriculum evidence based practice utilizing principles
of research and theory to identify research problems and develop
research studies to determine the appropriateness of care and
treatment in APN practice.
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Facilitate
student’s ability to provide care that is dynamic and evolving
to meet health care needs of clients within the domains of
advanced practice nursing.
EXPECTED STUDENT OUTCOMES
The Master of Science with a Major in
Nursing is designed to prepare the graduate to:
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Demonstrate
competence and caring in advanced clinical practice to improve
the quality of health care that clients receive in a variety of
settings.
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Synthesize
and analyze advanced knowledge using theories, research,
concepts, and principles from nursing, behavioral, social,
physiological, and pharmacological disciplines in the area of
advanced clinical practice.
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Communicate
and collaborate with health care consumers, professionals,
managed care, governments, and other groups to manage care and
enhance the health and wellness needs of clients.
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Integrate
the roles of educator, researcher, consultant, provider, leader,
and manager into advanced clinical nursing practice.
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Integrate
ethical and legal dimensions confronting the health care
environment and the nursing profession.
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Use
scientific methods to assess, analyze, and diagnose the complex
clinical or non-clinical health care needs of clients, related
to their wellness, health, and illness.
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Use theory
and research in understanding clinical needs and in determining
nursing interventions, therapeutics, and clinical management
options.
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Incorporate
standards of advanced nursing practice, including personal
values, caring, integrity, research, and commitment to life-long
learning to ensure quality of care for the client.
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Evaluate
and use appropriate educational technologies and resources for
making clinical decisions and promoting health maintenance and
disease prevention.
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Contact CSU-Pueblo
Nursing Department:
nursing@colostate-pueblo.edu
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