Call-out text:
NCIN funds allowed school officials to provide more resources to support the scholars’ academic success, and spurred officials to initiate strategies to train students to become nurse leaders.
An accelerated M.S.N. program designed especially for the individual holding a bachelor's degree in another field.
Long text (Legacy Book):
Milwaukee’s population is 55 percent non-white, a statistic that underscores the need for a diverse health care workforce. Diversity in nursing continues to be a priority for Marquette’s nursing school, and the NCIN program has helped it achieve its goal to diversify its student body. NCIN scholarships enabled the school to recruit students from backgrounds underrepresented in nursing. These scholars share a commitment to enhancing the quality of patient care and improving the health care systems in which they work. The program also enabled the school to expose the scholars to leaders and mentors from the local nursing community. The school paid for scholars to attend a meeting of the local Sigma Theta Tau International chapter and paired scholars with former scholars and faculty members focused on each student’s area of practice interest.
The direct entry master’s program for non-nursing graduates is designed for individuals who hold baccalaureate degrees in fields other than nursing and who wish to become registered nurses. The 75-credit program builds upon previous, broad educational preparation and provides an intense, accelerated nursing curriculum preparing students for eligibility to take the NCLEX-RN examination upon completion of 63 credits (15 months of full-time study) and to earn a generalist master of science degree in nursing upon completion of the total 75 credits. Graduates will be academically eligible to take the CNL Certification Examination offered by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Commission on Nursing Certification.
Time to completion of master’s degree in nursing: 18 months
Baccalaureate degree — official transcripts of all college work
Undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or greater
GRE (waived with a GPA of 3.2 or higher)
Completion of three recommendation forms
Updated résumé
Goal statement
Completion of the following prerequisite courses with grade of C or better:
- Human anatomy and physiology* (5 or more credits; usually two four-credit courses)
- Chemistry or biochemistry or biology or microbiology* (5 or more credits total)
- Nutrition for Health Sciences* (3 credits)
- Behavioral sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology) (3 credits)
- Statistics (including inferential)** (3 credits)
* Prerequisites preferred within past five years
** Within five years of program start date
Please contact the College of Nursing and visit the website: http://www.marquette.edu/mucentral/bursar
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