Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)

This course will facilitate student-centered curriculum design development and related learning outcomes, learning experiences, and evaluation of learning for classroom education with an emphasis placed on major educational philosophies and their respective approaches to curriculum development. Students will critically examine the nature of contrasting psychologies of human learning and motivation in relation to current educational theories. Corequisite: MSN 562.

This course will facilitate student-centered curriculum design development or related learning outcomes, learning experiences, and evaluation of learning for classroom education. Concepts of measurement, evaluation, and testing in nursing education will be explored with issues in test planning, writing, and assembling of items and analysis of results being discussed. Topics in the evaluation of critical thinking and performance in the assessment of clinical competencies and ethical and legal issues involved in the evaluation process will also be discussed. The advanced practice nurse will participate in one hundred eighty (180) practicum hours for this course. Corequisite: MSN 561.

This course will promote the significance of organizational and systems leadership in promoting quality improvement and safe patient care. The student will develop leadership skills which emphasize the importance of ethical and critical decision making with interprofessional collaboration teams that improve population based healthcare outcomes, disease management, and health economics. Corequisite: MSN 572.

This course will provide the advancement of health care delivery in the clinical setting. The advanced practice nurse will have an experiential clinical practice in health care informatics, health economics, interprofessional collaborative practice, and health care policy and intervention outcomes. Corequisite: MSN 571.

This course will provide the student with the opportunity to develop a thesis or a scholarly project for the degree of Master of Science in Nursing. The paper is a culminating experience option for Concordia University Irvine program. (The thesis paper and scholarly project paper topic with reader approval form must be filed with the Graduate Office, the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Concordia University Irvine and the chosen clinical research site). The student will work with the thesis/project committee and under the direction of the thesis chairperson will complete a final version of the paper.

This course is the culmination scholarly activity for the Master of Science in Nursing of Concordia University Irvine program. The planning, preparation, and completion of the thesis or scholarly project is in partial fulfillment of the graduate degree. Credit is obtained only when the student completes the thesis or scholarly project paper with the approval of the Department of Nursing graduate thesis/project committee members and the dean of the School of Professional Studies.