Daemen College

Nursing Programs Offered

Adult Health Nursing - Master's degree
Adult Health Nursing - Post-master's certificate
BSN Programs
DNP Programs (Doctor of Nursing Practice)
MSN Programs
Nursing Administration - Master's degree
RN Programs
RN to BSN Programs
RN to MSN Programs

BSN Program Details

Freshman students entering the 1+2+1 Nursing curriculum are required to complete one Learning Community comprised of two linked courses with a common theme. The linked courses are taken in the same term. The Research and Presentation requirement of the core is met by successful completion of NUR432 and 453. While students in this curriculum are not required to complete studies in each competency and core requirement, it is strongly recommended that students complete any elective credits taken at Daemen in courses which have a competency and that students select courses in as many of the competencies and other course requirements as possible, thereby enhancing their educational experience at Daemen.

MSN Program Details

The purpose of this program is to prepare masters level nurses who are skilled in fulfilling the educator role in nursing programs. Nursing education requires nursing faculty prepared at the masters level, who can serve as educators and leaders for the nursing profession. In light of the current nursing faculty shortage, there is a critical need for nurse educators, who can promote the growth of nursing students and prepare new nurses to enter the profession. Nurses who complete the Master of Science in Nursing Education will be prepared to fill the educator role.

Upon completion of the master in Nursing Education program, the graduate will:

-Engage in the scholarship of teaching to facilitate student learning, professional development and socialization.
-Create an environment that promotes critical thinking and problem solving within the teaching-learning process.
-Use applicable educational principles, theory, and research to develop and implement teaching strategies that optimize student learning.
-Synthesize information from a variety of disciplines to develop strategies for change in nursing education and curricular development.
-Work collaboratively within the institutional environment and the academic community to function effectively as a nurse educator.
-Integrate the values of respect, collegiality, professionalism and caring to build an organizational climate that fosters the development of learners.
-Incorporate professional, legal, moral, and ethical standards into practice.
-Critically analyze and synthesize research to determine applicability to practice.
-Develop a research project or thesis pertinent to nursing education.
-Contribute to professional nursing through advanced nursing education practice and professional involvement.
-Exhibit leadership behavior as a nurse educator as evidenced by enhanced self knowledge, cultural sensitivity, team dynamics, and systems thinking.
-Analyze the impact of community, societal, and professional trends in health care on nursing education.

Doctor of Nursing Practice Program Details

Upon completion of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program, the graduate will:

-Integrate nursing science with knowledge from ethics, the biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, and organizational sciences as the basis to attend to health and illness experiences of individuals, groups, and communities.
-Demonstrate systems analysis to work collaboratively in the development, implementation, and evaluation of quality health care models.
-Use analytic methods to critically appraise literature and evidence from the health sciences in the development of practice guidelines and deliverance of direct patient care to individuals, groups, and communities.
-Design, select, use, evaluate, and analyze quality metrics in a variety of health care settings.
-Demonstrate leadership in the evaluation and resolution of ethical and legal issues within healthcare systems relating to the use of information, information technology, communication networks, and patient care technology.
-Demonstrate leadership in the development and implementation of institutional, local, state, federal, and/or international health policy through critical appraisal of health policy proposals, health policies and related issues.
-Formulate and deliver population focused health care on the basis of synthesis of epidemiological, biostatistical, environmental, psychosocial dimensions, and cultural diversity and evaluation of health care delivery models.
-Contribute to professional nursing through leadership, education, and advocacy within the policy and health care communities.