Master of Science in Nursing M.S.N. Programs

Review the information below on admission and course requirements, handbook for MSN Graduate Students and course descriptions.

Admission and Course Requirements

Course Descriptions

Handbook for MSN Graduate Students

Every year students must provide health services with evidence of a negative PPD test or compliance with treatment. Before beginning some clinical nursing courses, students may be expected to meet additional health requirements. All nursing students must have the following information on file in College Health Services:

1. An admission physical exam.
2. One dose of tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap).
3. Two doses of live measles vaccine (preferably MMR) or a blood titer confirming immunity.
4. Two doses of mumps vaccine (preferably MMR) or a blood titer confirming immunity.
5. One dose of rubella vaccine or a blood titer confirming immunity.
6. Three doses of hepatitis B vaccine. A hepatitis B surface antibody titer to confirm sero-conversion is recommended on-to-two months after the final dose.
7. Provider documented proof, including date or age, of chicken pox disease or a varicella titer confirming immunity or two doses of varicella vaccine.
8. An initial 2-step PPD** tuberculin skin test and yearly PPD updates (or chest x-ray if PPD positive and yearly TB assessment, which is completed at College Health Services).
9. Flu vaccine every Fall Semester.

*Health-care workers born on or before Dec. 31, 1956, are only required to have documentation of one dose each of measles, mumps and rubella or titers confirming immunity.

**2-Step PPD – two separate PPDs planted at least a week apart but not more than a year apart prior to entering into nursing clinical.

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Students will not be admitted to the first class meeting of a nursing practicum course without having complied with the health requirements. Proof of immunization may be obtained from your physician, high school, previous college or university, military record, and/or from blood titers.

Nursing majors should follow the guidelines on the college immunization form or call College Health Services at 401-456-8055 for further information. Once all required information is complete, students may pick up their laminated identification cards at College Health Services.​

Upon completion of this program, graduates will be able to:

1. Apply scientific knowledge from nursing and related disciplines to plan, direct and evaluate health care.
2. Assume leadership responsibilities to shape nursing practice in adult/older adult care, nurse anesthesia or population/public health nursing.
3. Implement quality and safety initiatives to assure positive individual and population health outcomes.
4. Promote translation and integration of scholarship, research, and evidence-based practice.
5. Incorporate innovative healthcare technologies and informatics to improve care management and enhance outcomes.
6. Promote policies that assure quality, cost effective and equitable care within a dynamic health care system.
7. Engage in interdisciplinary, collaborative practice to improve individual and population health outcomes.
8. Analyze population health needs of a diverse society for preventive health strategies.
9. Demonstrate ethical practice, professional responsibility, and continued professional growth.
10. Demonstrate master's level nursing practice.
11. Assume advanced practice roles in adult/gerontology acute care, nurse anesthesia or population/public health nursing.