华盛顿州立大学

The Master of Nursing Population Health (MN PH) is a practice-focused degree that is designed to educate advanced practice nurses to provide direct care to individual patients; manage care for individuals, families, groups and populations; serve as administrators in health care organizations; engage as faculty in nursing programs; develop and implement health policy; and translate research into expert practice.

The MN Nursing program prepares you for an advanced practice nursing role in acute, outpatient and community settings. You will take the master’s core course work and additional course work if pursuing a graduate certificate in organizational leadership, nursing education or public health.

Two pathways are available:

MN-Population Health (with thesis)
MN-Population Health (non-thesis)

MN Program Outcomes

At the conclusion of the program, the master’s graduate will be able to:

Integrate scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, education, quality improvement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of population health and health care across diverse settings and communities
Implement organizational and system leadership skills to promote high quality, safe patient care that emphasizes ethical and critical decision making and effective working relationships within a systems perspective
Articulate multiple elements of quality, including methods, tools, performance measures, and quality standards, and apply these within an organization
Apply research outcomes within the practice setting to resolve practice problems, and work as a change agent to disseminate these results
Use patient-care technologies to deliver and enhance care, including communications technologies to integrate and coordinate care
Intervene at the systems level through policy development, and employ advocacy strategies to influence health and healthcare
Communicate, collaborate, and consult with other healthcare professionals as a member or leader of inter-professional teams to manage and coordinate care
Apply and integrate broad organizational, client-centered culturally appropriate concepts when planning, delivering, managing, and evaluating evidence in clinical prevention and population care, including services to individuals, families, and aggregates/identified populations
Articulate a broadly defined understanding of nursing practice as any form of nursing intervention that influences healthcare at the direct and indirect care levels for individuals, populations, and systems, coupled with an advanced level of understanding of nursing and relevant sciences that is integrated into direct and indirect nursing practice

Career Opportunities:

Community nurse educators and administrators.

With this degree, you will be prepared to work as a nurse administrator, nurse educator, public health professional, or in a leadership role in a number of healthcare settings including acute care, public health, outpatient clinics, home healthcare, and more.