Nursing is a dynamic profession with many rewards and career advancement opportunities to those dedicated to lifelong learning.
Emmanuel College’s online Master of Science in Nursing program will prepare you for your role as a leader by providing you with the skills and experiences to have a greater impact on patients and on the profession of nursing.
Emmanuel's Master of Science in Nursing program features a unique integrative, collaborative format where students from the Nursing Education and Nursing Administration track participate in classes together, online, to share ideas, research, and solutions to common clinical issues. This allows learning and synthesis of didactic knowledge and evidence-based research with real world practice, forging a more successful and purposeful career path. Both tracks include a solid foundation in nursing theory, ethics, leadership, research, diversity, information technology and health care policy and promotion through a set of core classes.
Within our supportive and engaging synchronous online classroom environment, you will benefit from rich discussions guided by the perspectives and experience levels of both our esteemed faculty and diverse group of colleagues. Through the College’s longstanding partnership with leading hospitals and healthcare organizations, steps from our campus within the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, you will complete your practicum at a world-class institution.
The education track prepares you for a position as a nurse educator, faculty member, staff development coordinator, clinical unit-based teacher or patient educator. In these roles, nurses incorporate evidence-based practices into the training of the next generation of nurses, develop a clinically and culturally competent workforce, establish plans of care for specialized groups of patients and promote health and wellness at a community level. Through your clinical capstone course, you will partner with an advanced nurse educator and focus on the responsibilities of a nurse educator within the healthcare and academic communities with an emphasis on scholarship and service.
Through the administration track, you will obtain the advanced skills needed for a position as a nurse executive or administrator, nursing director, nurse manager, case manager, coordinator of clinical research projects or project director. Expand your horizons outside the hospital setting, to leadership roles in public health departments, colleges, long-term care and assisted living facilities, hospices and home care, among others. Through your clinical capstone course, you will partner with a middle or senior nurse manager to develop core competencies various aspects of administration including consultation and collaboration, human resources, quality improvement, risk management, budget management and leadership.
Faculty within Emmanuel College’s Wilkens School of Nursing and Clinical Sciences affirms as organizing foundational components Beliefs, Professional Role, Knowing and Caring.
Integrates personal and professional values, which stem from spiritual, moral-ethical, social and cultural tenets, traditions and practices that guide professional practice.
Synthesize spiritual, moral, and ethical reflection, values clarification, and discerning leadership into a personal philosophy of nursing for the role of nurse educator or manager/administrator to effect positive outcomes for vulnerable populations within the context of their environments.
Synthesizes nursing's historical roots with state-of-the-art knowledge and skills for the purpose of advocating for health and wellness locally and globally. The role requires individual empowerment, interprofessional collaboration, leadership, consultative skills, and accountability to society and peers.
Assume accountability for the use of leadership, management, teaching, interprofessional collaboration, consultation, health policy analysis, quality improvement, advanced clinical skills and responsible citizenship to advocate for high quality health promotion and systems of care.
Analyzes and synthesizes through the process of scholarly inquiry the body of knowledge used in the discipline of nursing. Knowing requires the use of reflection, critical thinking, ethical analysis and collaboration in the engagement of scholarly nursing practice.
Practice as an expert professional nurse in a role that synthesizes scholarly inquiry in nursing and other disciplines, research, and clinical knowledge within a theoretical and conceptual framework.
Incorporates the culture of nursing into a relationship between the caregiver and individuals, families, and communities locally and globally resulting in the achievement of mutually desired outcomes on the health/illness continuum. Caring requires an intentional process that uses respect, connection, competency, empathy and advocacy as linkages with the requirements of knowing.
Design, implement, evaluate and improve nursing practice, education and administration/management that integrates caring concepts into therapeutic relationships with vulnerable populations locally and globally.
Expand your global perspective of nursing by participating in a travel abroad experience in Florence Italy. Through this unique partnership, you will experience and develop an understanding of the culture and healthcare system of Italy.
Take the next step in your academic and professional journey. Inquire about any of our nursing programs below.
Nick grew up in a family of medical professionals—his mother and grandmother are both nurses and his father is a paramedic. “I’ve always been surrounded with medical jargon and stories of health incidents, crises, and the rewarding benefits of providing care,” he said.
Join us on a video tour of the Maureen Murphy Wilkens School of Nursing & Clinical Sciences’ new nursing laboratory. The space includes the Joanne DiGeronimo and Anthony Migliario Nursing Skills Laboratory, a high-fidelity simulation lab, de-briefing room, new office space and more.
Within the Maureen Murphy Wilkens School of Nursing & Clinical Sciences, students gain the type of hands-on, practical experience that helps them emerge as well-rounded, in-demand nursing professionals.
Janice Bell Meisenhelder, D.N.Sc., R.N., C.N.E., is a Professor of Nursing at Emmanuel College.
Joanne is a 2019 graduate of the Master of Science in Nursing program on the administration track.
Pam Wickett graduated from Emmanuel College with a Master's of Science in Nursing Education in 2019.
John Casey BSN '16 made the most of his time as a student in Emmanuel's RN-to-BSN program, using every lesson as motivation to grow personally and professionally—from learning a foreign language, pursuing new certifications and taking up yoga.
After more than a decade as an RN at New England Baptist Hospital, Castella Edward MSN '16 decided take the next step in her career, building upon experience to enhance her daily practice, take a more active role in policy review and more.
While earning her MSN in nursing education at Emmanuel, Briana Svensson benefited from the "countless differing viewpoints, fresh perspectives and wisdom gained from decades of collective professional experience" that changed her-as a student, a nurse and a person-for the better.
Taking your career further requires a commitment beyond just an average work week. Take the next step in your academic and professional journey.
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