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Curriculum

Post-Baccalaureate Option

The 17-month post-baccalaureate Nursing Administration concentration requires 36 semester hours of graduate course work including a minimum of 360 clinical hours. A comprehensive exam is required during the final semester. Students also complete a directed scholarly project. Students may only transfer a maximum of six (6) credit hours toward degree requirement.

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Fall I Semester

Cr Hrs.

Spring Semester

Cr Hrs.

NURS 521 Human Resource Management and Business Strategy (Full semester course)

Student earns 45 hours of practicum credit

4

NURS 500 Theoretical Foundations and Research Methods (Half semester course)

4

NURS 522 Organizational and Leadership Theory (Half semsester course)

3

NURS 533 Finance and Budget for Strategic Decision Making (Full semester course)

Student earns 45 hours of practicum credit

4

NURS 529 Nursing Administration Seminar (Half semester course)

2

NURS 534 Healthcare Informatics, Data Analysis, and Technology (Half semester course)

2

Total:

9

Total:

10

Summer Semester

Cr Hrs.

Fall II Semester

Cr Hrs.

NURS 580 Contemporary Roles and Issues (Half semester course)

4

NURS 579 Leadership Synthesis for the Nursing Administrator (Half semester course)

4

NURS 587A Nursing Administration Practicum I (Full semester course)

Student earns 135 hours of practicum credit

3

NURS 587B Nursing Administration Practicum II (Full semester course)

Student earns 135 hours of practicum credit

3

 

 

NURS 590 Directed Scholarly Inquiry - Group Project (Full semester course)

3

Total:

7

Total:

10

Total MSN Nursing Administration Concentration Hours = 36 credit hours

MSN Core = 11 credit hours; Nursing Administration Cognate = 19 credit hours; Nursing Administration Clinical/Practicum = 6 credit hours

*Clinical courses have a 1: 6 credit hour to clinical hour ratio, making 360 clock hours for the program.

 

Post-Associate Option

The 26 month post-associate Nursing Administration concentration requires 65 semester hours. Students admitted to the ASN to MSN program will follow the RN-BSN curriculum. Upon completion of the RN-BSN curriculum plan the student will begin the MSN, Nursing Administration Concentration curriculum plan the following semester.

RN-BSN Curriculum

Fall Only Courses

Cr Hrs.

Spring Only Courses

Cr Hrs.

NURS 310 Pharmacology to Promote Adaptation

3

NURS 330 Health Assessment of Humans as Adaptive Systems

3

NURS 390 Promotion of Adaptation in the Elderly

2

NURS 340 Foundations of Nursing Informatics

3

NURS 430 Nursing Research

3

NURS 350 Pathophysiology of Ineffective Human Responses

3

NURS 470 Prof Nursing Role Development/ Preceptorship

4

NURS 375 Promotion of Adaptation Groups/ Communities/ Transcultural Societies

5

Fall and Spring Courses

*NURS 300 Transitions to Professional Nursing

2

**NURS 490 Senior Nursing Seminar for RNs

1

Total RN-BSN Hours = 29 credit hours

*NURS 300 is typically the first course taken upon acceptance into the RN-BSN Program

** NURS 490 must be completed in last semester of RN-BSN program

NURS 340 and NURS 390 may be taken in the last semester of the ASN program

Additional general education course may be required to complete the RN-BSN program, please see list below of required courses. In order to be eligible for the RN-BSN program the applicant must:

  1. Be enrolled in an accredited associate degree program
  2. Show proof of a valid non-restricted RN license (if student is a new graduate the RN license must be received no later than the fourth week of the beginning semester)
  3. Have an overall GPA of 2.75 or higher on all college-level course work
  4. Have applied and been accepted to LMU (waived for current LMU ASN students)
  5. Apply for admission to the Caylor School of Nursing (waived for current LMU ASN students)

Total program hours to graduate with BSN is 122.

General Education Requirements

Course

Cr Hrs

Course

Cr Hrs

*BIOL 230 Microbiology

4

Elective (ex: ISYS 100)

2

*BIOL 261 Human Anatomy & Physiology I

4

*PSYC 221 Developmental Psychology

3

*BIOL 262 Human Anatomy & Physiology II

4

Elective

3

ENGL 101 Composition 1

3

ENGL 102 Composition 2

3

MATH (College Algebra or higher)

3

*MATH 270 Statistics

3

Humanities Requirement

3

Humanities Requirement

3

Humanities Requirement

3

Humanities Requirement

3

Social/Behavioral Science Elective

3

**LNCN 100 Lincoln's Life and Legacy

1

**CIVX 300 American Civics

2

 

 

*Persons already holding a Bachelor's degree or higher only need to meet these program requirements.

**University specific courses that cannot be transferred, but may be completed at any point during the program, if needed.