(Some specialties and dual-focus areas require additional semesters. Visit Advanced Practice Specialties for sample curriculum plans in specialty year.)
The first year of the part-time class schedule focuses on didactic course content. The courses you will be taking are offered on Mondays from 8 am - 4 pm and on Tuesdays from 8 am – 12 noon.
The second year focuses on professional nursing, and you will be in the laboratory setting, community health clinics, psychiatric hospitals and acute care hospital clinical. The course and these experiences are scheduled on Tuesday afternoons and all day Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Hospital clinical may be 8-hour or 12-hour shifts and begins at 6:30 am.
Sample Part-time Curriculum Plan
| FALL - SEMESTER I |
| 225 |
Population-Based Health Care |
2 |
| 235 |
Human Experience of Health and Illness Across the Lifespan I |
4 |
| 255 |
Basic Pharmacology |
2 |
| 8 |
| SPRING - SEMESTER II |
| 226 |
Health Care Systems: Micro Issues |
2 |
| 236 |
Human Experience of Health and Illness Across the Lifespan II |
5 |
| 7 |
| SUMMER - SEMESTER III |
| 227 |
Health Care Systems: Macro Issues |
2 |
| 237 |
Human Experience of Health and Illness Across the Lifespan III |
4 |
| 6 |
| FALL - SEMESTER IV |
| 215 |
Foundations of Professional Nursing I |
2 |
| 245 |
Fundamentals of Clinical Practice |
5 |
| 7 |
| SPRING - SEMESTER V |
| 216 |
Professional Nursing Seminar |
1 |
| 246 |
Integration of Theoretical and Clinical Aspects of Nursing I |
4 |
| 256 |
Strategies for Improving Self-Care |
2 |
| 7 |
| SUMMER - SEMESTER VI |
| 217 |
Foundations of Professional Nursing II |
3 |
| 247a |
Integration of Theoretical and Clinical Aspects of Nursing II |
2 |
| 247b |
Integration of Theoretical and Clinical Aspects of Nursing III |
2 |
| 7 |
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TOTAL HOURS |
42 |
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TOTAL SPECIALTY HOURS |
39 |
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TOTAL HOURS FOR MSN DEGREE |
81 |
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