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Info Sessions
Learn more about the M.S. in Nursing, ask questions about the program and application process and connect with faculty during an upcoming online informational webinar.
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Ready to apply? Explore admission requirements, application materials and important deadlines, including the March 15 priority deadline, to prepare your application for the M.S. in Nursing program.
Advising and Registration
Learn what to expect after you're admitted, including how advising works, how to track your degree progress and how registration works for nursing courses.
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Expected Student Learning Outcomes
M.S. graduates are prepared to ensure better care, better health and lower costs through their knowledge, skills and abilities.
Advanced Professional Nurse Role
- Demonstrate competence and caring in the advanced professional nurse role to serve Wyoming, the region, and the world in urban, rural, and frontier health care settings as a provider, leader, and/or educator in the health care system.
Rural Health Transformation
- Transform rural health through leadership, service, and clinical scholarship that reflects an interconnected and comprehensive global health perspective.
Advanced Nursing Knowledge
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding of nursing and other sciences and humanities and integrate this knowledge to manage and improve health care across settings.
Population Health
- Synthesize broad organizational, financial, economic, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts from nursing and other sciences to address population health.
Evidence-Based Practice
- Engage in scholarly inquiry and evidence-based practice to lead change for quality outcomes and implement safe health care to populations in a variety of settings.
Transformation
- Transformation includes learning, education, leadership, and nursing as a whole; engaging creativity with theory and evidence-based practice to result in critical reflection and cognitive flexibility.
Rurality/Frontier
- Practice in a low population area where resources and/or access to care are limited and be able to innovate accordingly.
Service
- Providing advanced practice nursing care and services to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations includes altruism, leadership, decision-making, cooperation, education, listening, problem-solving, person-centered care, fidelity, advocacy, ethical behavior, and practice.
Comprehensive Global Healthcare System Perspective
- An interconnected and comprehensive global health care system perspective incorporating the following attributes: advocacy, altruism, creativity, ethical conduct, effective communication skills, leadership, problem-solving skills, professionalism, and scholarship.
Clinical Scholarship
- Activities that systematically advance nursing science, including its teaching, research, and practice through rigorous inquiry that 1) is significant to the profession, 2) is creative, 3) can be documented, 4) can be replicated or elaborated, and 5) can be peer-reviewed through various methods and includes discovery, teaching, practice, and integration.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.