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MSN Curriculum Requirements

The master's program requires completion of a minimum of 40 to 42 credit hours. Students who complete more than one program option will exceed the required minimum.

Course Category Course Number Course Title Credit Hours

Professional Core N646 Health Care Policy in the US 3
N647a Approaches to Advanced Practice: Integrating Theories, Roles, and Issues 3
Research Core N776 Research for Advanced Clinical Practice 3
N777 Intermediate Statistical Applications in Health Care 3
N992 Master's Paper 3
or
N993 Thesis 3-6
Clinical Core N642 Health Promotion and Illness Prevention in Advanced Practice 2
N710 Developmental Physiology & Pathophysiology 3
or
N715 Pathophysiology for Advanced Nursing Practice 3
N720 Pharmacotherapeutics in Advanced Nursing Practice 3
One advanced assessment & diagnostic reasoning course appropriate to the student's specialty area:
N725 Advanced Health Assessment & Diagnostic Reasoning in Neonatal and Pediatric Nursing 4
N726 Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning in Primary Care 4
N727 Advanced Diagnostic Reasoning Process in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing 4
Advanced Practice Areas
(including electives)
  Adult Nurse Practitioner 13
  Family Nurse Practitioner 15
  Women's Health
  Women's Health Nurse Practitioner 13
   Psychiatric-Mental Health CNS/NP 20-24
  Pediatric Nurse Practitioner 13
Health Care Systems Core (Administration, Clinical Nurse Leader, Education, Informatics, Outcomes) N870 Health Care Informatics 3
N871 Leadership and Advanced Practice Roles in Health Care Organizations 3
N872 Human Resource Management 3
N873 Financial Management 3
N874 Outcomes Management 3
N878 HCS Residency 3
N704 Scientific Writing 1
Other required coursework dependent on focus area -- http://nursing.unc.edu/degree/msn/hcs.html  

a Not required of Health Care Systems students.

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