MSN / MBA Dual Degree

The master’s degree program in nursing at MidAmerica Nazarene University is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 655 K Street NW, Suite 750, Washington DC, 20001, 202-887-6791.

Accreditation assures you of the program’s credibility for future nursing positions and continued education in nursing.

The MBA program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs.

Additionally, the University is authorized to offer associate’s degrees in all fields, bachelor’s degrees in all fields, and master’s degrees in the fields of Administration/Leadership, Business, Counseling, Education and Nursing. The University accreditation is through the Higher Learning Commission.

The faculty of the Graduate Studies in Nursing Department assist students to build on, at the graduate level, the five General Education Outcomes of the University. Graduate Nursing Students demonstrate competency in these outcomes before graduation. The outcomes, their definitions, and their defining characteristics relative to a master of science in nursing degree are:

• Christlike Community

  • Faith Integration: Appreciate sacred Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience as the foundation to know the triune God – Father, Son, Spirit; as such, generating a deepened spiritual journey and allowing faith to guide advanced professional nursing practice.

  • Interprofessional Partnerships: Evaluate the effectiveness of interprofessional collaboration in optimizing patient care and outcomes. Propose innovative strategies for fostering collaborative relationships across professions and with care team members, including patients, families, and communities to enhance the healthcare experience and strengthen outcomes.

  • Professionalism: Develop and cultivate a sustainable professional identity that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values and demonstrates accountability, perspective, a collaborative disposition, and comportment.

• Academic Excellence
  • Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Integrate, translate, and apply established and evolving knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to formulate sound clinical judgment and propose innovation in nursing practice.

     

  • Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline: Generate, synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate nursing knowledge to improve health and transform healthcare.

  • Quality and Safety: Apply established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science to enhance quality and minimize harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

  • Informatics and Healthcare Technology: Evaluate and integrate information and communication technologies and informatics processes that meet regulatory and professional standards and help manage and improve the delivery of safe, efficient, quality care.

• Passion to Serve
  • Person Centered-Care: Design, deliver and evaluate comprehensive personalized healthcare that demonstrates a compassionate understanding of the patient’s development, social contexts, and values, as well as evidence-based practice.
  • Population Health: Analyze population health data to identify trends and disparities and propose evidence-based interventions. Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders across the care continuum to design and implement health promotion and disease prevention strategies for the improvement of equitable healthcare outcomes.
  • Systems-Based Practice: Support healthcare as a complex, adaptive and nuanced system and effectively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
  • Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development: Acquire nursing expertise and affirm leadership through participating in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, well-being, and life-long learning.