Master’s Degree

Upon successful completion of the MSN program, the graduate will be able to:

• Integrate, translate, and apply scientific underpinnings to improve nursing practice, clinical judgment and patient outcomes within the four spheres of care (Essentials domain: 1, 4).
• Design, implement, and evaluate safe, evidence-based, person-centered, compassionate care (Essentials domain: 2, 4, 5).
• Influence population health, including improvements in health care policy, utilizing effective collaboration and advocacy strategies to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion (Essentials domain: 3, 4, 6).
• Employ nursing scholarship to advance nursing practice, optimize care, address health inequities, and take actions that target high-priority social determinants of health (Essentials domain: 4).
• Apply principles of quality improvement, ethics, and safety at both the individual and systems levels (Essentials domain: 5).
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes (Essentials domain: 6).
• Design innovative strategies that promote the provision of safe, cost-effective, equitable care to diverse patient populations across complex healthcare systems (Essentials domain: 7).
• Utilize information systems, communication technology, and informatics to improve and transform healthcare systems (Essentials domain: 8).
• Demonstrate professionalism, including participation in activities that support nursing’s professional identity, accountability, ethical principles, and values (Essentials domain: 9).
• Participate in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, well–being, lifelong learning, competence, and leadership (Essentials domain: 10). 

Revision Date: 11/14/2023

Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and is approved by the Missouri State Board of Nursing.

Whether you’ve previously attended Goldfarb or are joining our academic community for the first time, you can feel confident in getting an education that prepares you and your career for the future of nursing.