Additional Requirements
Expected Student Learning Outcomes
M.S. Graduate are prepared to ensure better care, better health, and lower costs through their knowledge, skills, and abilities to:
- Demonstrate competence and caring in the advanced professional nurse role to serve Wyoming, the region, and the world in urban, rural, and frontier health care settings as a provider, leader, and/or educator in the health care system.
- Transform rural health through leadership, service, and clinical scholarship that reflects an interconnected and comprehensive global health perspective.
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding of nursing and other sciences and humanities and integrates this knowledge to manage and improve health care across settings
- Synthesize broad organizational, financial, economic, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts from nursing and other sciences to address population health.
- Engage in scholarly inquiry and evidence-based practice to lead change for quality outcomes and implement safe health care to diverse populations in a variety of settings.
Core Concepts:
Transformation includes learning, education, leadership, and nursing as a whole; engaging creativity with theory and evidence-based practice to result in critical reflection and cognitive flexibility.
Practice in a low population area where resources and/or access to care are limited and be able to innovate accordingly.
Providing advanced practice nursing care and services to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations includes altruism, leadership, decision-making, cooperation, education, listening, problem-solving, person-centered care, fidelity, advocacy, ethical behavior, and practice.
- Comprehensive Global healthcare system perspective
An interconnected and comprehensive global health care system perspective incorporating the following attributes: advocacy, altruism, creativity, ethical conduct, effective communication skills, leadership, problem-solving skills, professionalism, and scholarship.
Activities that systematically advance nursing science, including its teaching, research, and practice through rigorous inquiry that 1) is significant to the profession, 2) is creative, 3) can be documented, 4) can be replicated or elaborated, and 5) can be peer-reviewed through various methods and includes discovery, teaching, practice, and integration.
Admission
The University of Wyoming must receive complete application materials for the MS Program by the application deadline to be considered for fall admission (the entire MS application process is completed online). The applicant is responsible to make certain that UW is in receipt of all application materials/fees.
Criteria for admission as well as application instructions and deadlines can be found on the nursing website: www.uwyo.edu/nursing (click on Nursing Programs, MS, Admission Criteria/Application).
Scholastic Requirements
University and College of Health Sciences policies governing scholastic requirements (e.g. major changes, probation and dismissal) apply to students enrolled in the School of Nursing. In addition to university/college requirements, the School of Nursing has further scholastic requirements for the MS Program. These requirements can be found on the nursing website: www.uwyo.edu/nursing (click on Nursing Programs, MS, MS Program Student Handbook - section 6 Scholastic Requirements).
Curriculum
All MS students, regardless of concentration will take a set of core courses. In addition to the core courses, a group of specialty courses are required for each MS concentration.
Program of Study
A detailed, semester sequenced MS Program of Study can be found on the nursing website: www.uwyo.edu/nursing (click on Nursing Programs, MS, MS Program of Study).