Master’s Nurse Educator Masters Program

Fall 2018—Spring 2019

Graduate School of Nursing 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA

Objectives for the Nurse Educator Track

Provides an opportunity to acquire teaching skills and

strategies that address student, program and patient out-

comes as well as leadership skills to improve health care.

Prepares a unique graduate who possesses a strong clinical

foundation, leadership skills, and extensive knowledge of

teaching and learning. This track requires clinical and edu-

cational practice.

Develop nursing leaders with expert knowledge of com-

plex health problems who will lead and or improve nursing

practice in Worcester, the Commonwealth, and beyond.

The purpose:

The Master’s Nurse Ed-

ucator Track at the Uni-

versity of Massachu-

setts Worcester is to

prepare graduates in

faculty and staff devel-

opment roles. The cur-

riculum is designed to

educate students to

improve and transform

health care through

systems leadership, re-

search translation, and

advanced clinical

knowledge. Graduates

are prepared to as-

sume leadership roles

in hospitals and com-

munity-based settings,

health care organiza-

tions, and schools of

nursing as clinical fac-

ulty.

SHAPING THE FUTURE OF NURSING

For more information contact

the Graduate School of Nursing

Admissions Office (508) 856-3488

or gsnadmission@umassmed.edu

Curriculum for Nurse Educator Track BSN and PGO to Master’s in Nursing Education Post Graduate Certificate in Nursing Education

BSN & PGO to Master’s in Nursing Education

Fall Semester Year One

Credits

N603 A Societal Forces Influencing Graduate Nursing Education & Practice N603B Interprofessional Community- Service Learning Program (Fall through Spring Course) N604 Translating & Integrating Scholarship into Practice N613 Advanced Pathophysiology

3cr IP 3cr 3cr

Spring Semester Year One

N603B Interprofessional Community-Service Learning Program (con’t from Fall) N614 Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics N704 Principles of Epidemiology N820 Essentials for the Academic Health Educator

1cr 3cr 3cr 3cr

Summer Semester Year One

N615 Advanced Health Assessment N623 Advanced Nursing Science: Identifying and Measuring Outcomes for Nurse Educators

3cr 3cr

Fall Semester Year Two

N621B Advanced Nursing Science: Clinical Practice for Nurse Educators N622 Advanced Nursing Science: Advanced Instructional Methods for Nurse Educators N624 Advanced Nursing Science: Systems Leadership for Nurse Educators

3cr 3cr 3cr

Spring Semester Year Two

N625B Advanced Nursing Science: Teaching Practicum for Nurse Educators NXXX Elective

3cr 3cr

Post Graduate Certificate (PGC) in Nursing Education

Fall Semester

Credits

N622 Advanced Instructional Methods 3cr

Spring Semester Credits

N820 Essentials for the Academic Health Educator N625B Advanced Nursing Science: Teaching Practicum for Nurse Educators

3cr 3cr

Summer Semester Credits

N623 Identifying and Measuring Outcomes 3cr