GRADUATE PROGRAM
The Graduate Program in the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing is known for its educational excellence.
Our challenging, cutting-edge curricula and distinguished faculty are invaluable in helping you achieve your professional career goals. Whether you seek a master's degree, post-graduate certificate, DNP or PhD, you will find that we bring together the worlds of academic theory and applied knowledge in a unique, fully accredited program ranked among the top graduate nursing programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
Our Graduate Program provides the means to expand your knowledge base, enrich your skills and advance your career. We prepare nurses for leadership in an ever-changing health care arena. We will help you think creatively, reach farther and embrace the challenges of professional practice.
A degree from Villanova University — a degree of excellence — will set you apart.
The goals of the Master's degree and Post-Graduate Certificate Nurse Educator and Nurse Practitioner tracks in the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing at Villanova University are to:
- Develop nurse educators and nurse practitioners with the expertise to improve health outcomes for individuals, populations, and systems.
- Effectively use research and technology to generate new questions and new knowledge.
- Provide a foundation for doctoral study.
Upon completion of the Master's degree or Post-Graduate Certificate, graduates of the Nurse Educator and Nurse Practitioner tracks will be able to:
- Apply nursing science that is grounded in education, sciences and humanities with critical analysis of relevance to nursing and health care practice. (Domain 1)
- Translate and integrate relevant scholarship into nursing education and practice. (Domain 4)
- Use analytic methods to evaluate relevant scholarship to promote safe, quality nursing and health care practice. (Domain 1)
- Integrate nursing knowledge, reflective of social determinants of health, in interprofessional teams to improve health care outcomes for patients, families, communities and populations. (Domain 3 & 6))
- Promote equitable restorative and preventive nursing and health care for individuals, families, communities, and populations, recognizing individual uniqueness and delivery congruent with the Judeo-Christian humanistic tradition. (Domain 2)
- Apply principles of organizational science and leadership to effect responsible change in health systems and health policy. (Domain 7 & 10)
- Implement effective evidence-based strategies in nursing practice, education, and research to promote safe, quality, cost-effective, and accessible health care. (Domain 5 & 7)
- Evaluate the use of information and communication technologies to support patient care. (Domain 8)
- Demonstrate a commitment to ethics and integrity consistent with the highest standards of professional nursing. (Domain 9)
- Contribute to the profession through promoting self-care, mentoring others, maintaining competence by continued personal and professional growth, and advocating for equity in nursing and society. (Domain 10)