Required Credit Hours/Tuition and Fees
- 33
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Program of Study
The program for the Master of Science in nursing consists of 33 semester hours for healthcare and nursing administration.
Year 1 (Fall)
(3) NURS 600 Theory Guided Practice
(3) PAPA 561 Biostatistics/Epidemiology
6 - Total Credits
Year 1 (Spring)
(3) NURS 604 Evaluating Evidence for Improving Practice & Healthcare Outcomes
(3) NURS 606 Leadership and Health Policy for Advanced Nursing Practice
6 - Total Credits
Year 1 (Summer)
(3) NURS 510 Health Care Informatics
Year 2 (Fall)
(3) NURS 590 Organizational Behavioral and Leadership for Nurse Executives (2.5 credits didactic, .5 credit practicum)
(3) NURS 592 Healthcare Finance and Budgeting (2.5 credits didactic, .5 credit practicum)
6 - Total Credits
Year 2 (Spring)
(3) NURS 556 Quality and Safety for Nurse Executives (2 credits didactic, 1 credit practicum)
(3) NURS 593 Management of Human Resources in Health Care
6 - Total Credits
Year 2 (Summer)
(3) NURS 558 Nurse Executive Leadership I (2.5 credits didactic, .5 credit practicum - Begin project)
Year 3 (Fall)
(3) NURS 594 Nurse Executive Leadership II (2 credits didactic, 1 credit practicum - Complete project)
Total Hours 33
Retention
Scholarship appropriate for students in a School of Nursing graduate program is demonstrated through satisfactory completion of coursework, defined as obtaining a course grade of "A" or "B." The following retention policy applies specifically to all graduate nursing courses with the NURS prefix for degrees conferred by the School of Nursing:
- Students who obtain a course grade of "D" or "F" in a graduate nursing specialization are withdrawn from the graduate program without the option of repeating the course.
- Students may only earn one course grade of "C" and stay enrolled in graduate nursing programs. If a second course grade of "C" is earned, students will no longer be allowed to progress in the graduate nursing program, regardless of the cumulative GPA. Repeating a course in which there is originally a grade of "C" does not eliminate the original course grade of "C" from being applied toward this exclusion policy.
- Per the SIUE Graduate School policy, all students must have a GPA of 3.0 or higher to graduate.
For more information on the SIUE Graduate School Retention Policies, please refer to the Graduate Handbook.
