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Master of Science in Nursing

A values-based, multi-disciplinary online MSN program for working professionals.   

The Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program is a "life-paced" online program designed for working nurses who need to maintain commitments and remain on the job while developing leadership skills for health care systems, multi-cultural settings, school nurse settings, and the non-profit sector. 

We offer a traditional curriculum plan which is one course a semester (48 months) or an accelerated curriculum plan which is two courses a semester (24 months). The pace is up to you!

This CCNE accredited program adopted the sacred covenant model of nursing and is rooted deeply in the principles of service, empathy, agape love, and empowerment to bring people and communities to wholeness and healing. 

Graduate Programs

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Leadership and Management Concentration
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Leadership and School Nursing Concentration
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Leadership for Trauma-Awareness and Resilience
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Grad Certificate in School Nursing
Undergraduate nursing students
Certificate in Trauma-Awareness and Resilience in Healthcare Settings

About our Online MS in Nursing Program

Be part of our community of online learners. Our graduates praise the values-based program that provided a supportive network for their professional exploration and development.

What is unique about EMU’s MSN Program?

  • An interprofessional focus means you’ll study business, education, conflict transformation, and nursing.
  • Small class sizes enhance community-building - even when it's 100% online.
  • Earn your clinical hours in your own work setting.
  • EMU’s expert nursing faculty often have extensive cross-cultural experience.
  • Clinical hours are arranged near the student’s residence in collaboration among student, faculty, agency, and preceptor.
  • Students develop leadership skills incorporated with the EMU nursing values of justice, cultural humility, and human worth.
  • Students interact with fellow students from diverse health care settings, roles, and geographic locations that provides for a broader view of health care leadership.

Our Approach to Nursing Studies

  • A focus on mindful leadership

    Our framework includes approaches that are especially useful for nurse leaders and managers who can bring about change within the systems in which they work. These approaches include empowerment, reconciliation, partnership, presence, justice, service, and advocacy.

    Your professors will draw on EMU’s extensive experience in cross-cultural learning and the nursing department’s established reputation for educating nurses with high moral values, a broader view towards others, above average communication skills and cultural competence.

    You will gain from the expertise of entrepreneurial faculty in EMU’s other graduate programs in business and conflict resolution as we cultivate leadership skills and remain mindful of what is just, culturally competent, respectful and sacred

  • Developing an effective “voice”

    EMU’s department of nursing traces its roots to the Anabaptist-Mennonite faith tradition that embraces the gift of reconciliation. We believe nursing is a service ministry devoted to the care of others. Through our service to others, we function in roles that assist individuals, families, complex systems and communities to achieve and maintain the highest level of health.

    To serve effectively in this ministry many nurses require additional knowledge and skills to develop a “voice” that is both authentic and effective in improving relationships, patient safety, and system and patient outcomes. Relational and system healing within the dilemmas facing the health care system require nurses with clear, reasoned, credible and persistent voices who believe systems can create healing environments.

  • Student & Program Outcomes

    MSN Student Goals and Outcomes

    MSN Program Goals and Outcomes

 

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MSN Faculty

Cathy Rittenhouse
MSN Director; Associate Professor of Nursing

Cathy Rittenhouse

Areas of Expertise: Reproductive health, critical care, leadership

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