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Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing offers a wide range of MSN programs.
Program Options
All programs are designed for online delivery to meet the needs of the busy professional nurse desiring to advance knowledge and skills. The College of Nursing is recognized as one of the 50 best Master of Science in Nursing online degree programs in the nation.
The College also ranks among the nation’s Most Affordable Online Colleges for its nurse practitioner program.
- Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP)
- Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)
- Fast-Tracked Pathway to MSN for RNs with a Non-Nursing Baccalaureate Degree
- Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP)
- Nurse Educator
- Nursing Management Leadership (NML)
- Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (P-MHNP
Program Outcomes
The graduate of the master’s degree program is able to:
- Integrates advanced communication skills when interacting and collaborating with patients, families, populations and the health care team.
- Integrates knowledge and uses insights to create actions which improve issues in the student’s area of practice.
- Integrates information to develop interventions that promote, maintain and restore health.
- Provides care and services that are equitable and responsive to the unique cultural and ethnic needs of the population.
- Integrates leadership, organizational and decision-making skills to promote high quality and safe patient care.
- Integrates caring in all encounters associated with one’s role within health care.
- Integrates evidence-based practice and standards of care as a continuous process improvement strategy.
- Demonstrates accountability in patient care across populations.
Plan of Study
Upon admission, each student will be assigned an academic advisor.
The student is required to communicate with the advisor to develop a plan of study to assure that professional and educational goals and needs are met.
The plan of study will be reviewed each semester and revised as needed.
Online Classes
The Master of Nursing programs are offered via online education using a learning management system. This allows students to view course materials, check course calendars and participate in discussions.
Online education courses may use synchronous or asynchronous modalities to deliver course content.
The learning management system allows you to interact and collaborate with course faculty and classmates and do coursework from the convenience of your own setting.
Some clinical courses for FNP, AGACNP, and PMHNP require short campus visits. FNP and AGACNP programs meet on campus one time for each practicum course.