The following areas area available:

Master of Science in Nursing
The College of Nursing at St. Louis, in cooperation with the School of Nursing at University of MissouriKansas City, offers graduate nursing studies in three areas of clinical specialization:
Health Care of the Adult; Health Care of Children; Health Care of Women.

This graduate program offers students two ways of completing the Master of Science in Nursing Degree: one means is through completion of a minimum of 36 credit hours with functional role emphasis in administration, education, or clinical specialization; the second concentrates on the functional role of practitioner with completion of a minimum of 43 credit hours. Those selecting the practitioner functional role option will be eligible to complete national certification examinations.

Admission Requirements
Applicants must meet the following:

  1. B.S.N. from NLNaccredited nursing program or B.S.N. program comparable to UMSt. Louis College of Nursing's B.S.N. program.
     
  2. Minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 (4.0 scale).
     
  3. Current professional nurse licensure with eligibility for licensure in Missouri.
     
  4. Basic cardiac life support certification.
     
  5. Successful completion of an undergraduate descriptive and inferential statistics course.
     
  6. Successful completion of an undergraduate health assessment course.
     
  7. Nurse practitioner functional option is available on a limited basis and requires a twostep admission process: initial admission to the M.S.N. followed by application to the practitioner functional role.

Degree Requirements
Core Courses (completed by all students)
*404, Health Assessment for Advanced Nursing Practice
445, Foundations of Advanced Nursing Practice
448, Pathophysiology for Advanced Nursing Practice
450, Theoretical Foundations in Nursing
455, Quantitative Methods in Nursing Research
*472, Advanced Practice Nursing: Synthesis Practicum

Emphasis Courses* (Students must complete one course from each focal area.)

Health Promotion Focus
460A, Health Promotion and Protection in Adult Health Nursing
460C, Health Promotion in the Nursing Care of Children
460W, Women's Health Care I

Acute and Chronic Nursing Care Focus
461A, Acute and Chronic Adult Health Nursing
461C, Acute and Chronic Child Health Nursing
461W, Women's Health Care II

Functional Role Courses
Role Foundation (Students must complete one course.)
471NA, Role of the Nurse Administrator
471NE, Role of the Nurse Educator
471NS/NP, Role of the Clinical Specialist/Nurse Practitioner

Role Enactment (Practitioner functional role only)
*464, Ambulatory Care Management
407, Pharmacology for Advanced Nursing

Elective (Completed by all students)
Students complete three hours which support the chosen functional role. Course work may be taken within the College of Nursing or from an approved list available from the Student Services Office in the College of Nursing.

Culminating Research Activity
(All students complete seminar course. Students choose either project or thesis.)
477, Thesis/Directed Research Seminar
478, Directed Research
479, Research Thesis
*Includes a clinical component

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Ph.D. in Nursing
The College of Nursing at St. Louis, in cooperation with the Schools of Nursing at Columbia and Kansas City, offers doctoral studies in three substantive areas:

Health Promotion and Protection—Addresses modes of delivery in nursing that are supportive educative, encompassing concepts which promote and maintain health as well as concepts which focus on reducing risk for injury or illness.

Health Restoration and Support—Addresses human responses to acute, critical, and chronic health conditions.

Health Care Systems—Focuses on nursing and health care systems with both health promotion and protection, and health restoration and support considered.

The Ph.D. is designed to promote scholarly inquiry within the discipline of nursing. Each program of study is individualized to best reflect the research interests of the student. Course work in research and inquiry, nursing theory and analysis, and nursing applied science are focal in the program.

Admission Requirements
Applicants must meet the following:
  1. Graduate of NLN Baccalaureate program or equivalent with 3.2 minimum GPA (4.0) scale).
     
  2. Graduate of NLN Master's program or equivalent with 3.5 minimum GPA (4.0 scale).
     
  3. Graduate Record Examination (composite score of 1500 or better desired).
     
  4. Three letters of reference.
     
  5. Original essay (3–7 pages) addressing doctoral study and research interests related to Health Promotion and Protection, Health Restoration and Support, and/or Health Care Systems.
     
  6. Interview by invitation contingent on ranking related to above criteria.

Degree Requirements
While each program of study is individualized, B.S.N graduates complete a minimum of 60 hours of graduate level course work. MSN graduate course work which supports the chosen substantive area is individually evaluated to determine eligibility for transfer. The following defines the overall structure of the program:

Modes of Inquiry
Research and Inquiry, 8–16 hours external to the College of Nursing, such as advanced statistics, research design, computer applications, philosophical foundations of science.

Nursing Research and Inquiry, 8–16 hours within the College of Nursing, such as advanced quantitative nursing research design, advanced qualitative nursing research design, health survey methods, issues in research design, doctoral seminar.

Dissertation, 12 hours.
Nursing Content Areas

Nursing Theory Analysis and Development, 8–16 hours within the College of Nursing which advance the chosen substantive area, such as conceptual structures, nursing practice models, theory development, theoretical foundations, doctoral seminar.

Nursing Applied Sciences, 8–16 hours within selected substantive area.

Collateral Support Courses, 12 hours external to the College of Nursing which support selected substantive area.

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