{"id":6069,"date":"2019-09-06T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/enews\/?p=6069"},"modified":"2024-12-17T17:28:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:28:15","slug":"graduate-nursing-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/enews\/graduate-nursing-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Graduate Nursing Classes Will Help Advance Your Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deciding to pursue your MSN degree<\/a> is a huge step forward in your nursing career path. It certainly does open the door to more advanced roles and more competitive salaries. It may even help you achieve new personal heights and reach long-standing life goals. However, beyond career advancement, or even the satisfaction of accomplishment, there is a deeper, more meaningful reason to take graduate nursing classes.<\/p>\n

Your patients.<\/p>\n

With a graduate education, you can offer better service to everyone who comes into the ER, OR, PT, or OB room. Whatever setting you work in, you can contribute to keeping your healthcare center up-to-date with the most cutting-edge treatments, technologies, and information. You can be the carrier of knowledge who tips the scales in the favor of the patient, helping them to get better faster, and stay healthier longer.\u00a0With graduate nursing classes under your belt, you\u2019re equipped to deliver better care.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t just believe us\u2014 take it from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Leading health scientists affiliated with the RWJF found some fascinating links between\u00a0more highly educated nurses, and patient success rates<\/a>. Case and point: lower numbers of mortality were found among patient populations cared for by more educated nurses. In a study of Pennsylvania hospitals, scientists discovered that by raising the proportion of just BSN-educated nurses by 10%, hospitals can decrease patient deaths by at least 5%. That is an enormous survival advantage! One can safely imagine how an MSN degree would influence positive patient outcomes even further.<\/p>\n

Now, within an MSN program, some coursework will be a refresh of what you already know, from your BSN or more introductory RN education. However, your graduate-level courses will touch on new and advanced topics, as well. At Goodwin, for example, most MSN courses are designed to help you build new skills in the field of population health. Finally, your capstone will help you become the nurse that you hope to be, through an in-depth special project, depending on your own clinical specialty.<\/p>\n

You can expect that your graduate courses will also cover the American Association of College of Nursing<\/a> essential core competencies for a Master\u2019s in Nursing degree. Included in this overarching rubric are:<\/p>\n