Medical-Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist Track
The Medical-Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) track prepares nurses for leadership roles in advanced practice as expert clinicians, managers, consultants and educators of care. Program emphasis is on health promotion, clinical judgment, clinical inquiry, clinical outcome analysis, education facilitation and systems thinking.
Students take the core advanced practice courses in pathophysiology, health assessment and diagnostic reasoning, pharmacotherapeutics, theory and research, ethics and policy. Clinical experiences integrate the advanced practice roles through a collaborative approach in a variety of settings.
Graduates will be able to provide services in a variety of settings at the individual patient/family level, nurse-nurse level and at a systems level. Graduates are eligible for national certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for Clinical Nurse Specialist in Medical-Surgical Nursing.
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