Health Systems Leadership
Advance your nursing career by mastering leadership and data management skills with expert guidance, improving outcomes through patient-centered approaches in health care.
Pursue a Master's in Nursing (MSN)
Join a community of top scholars, accomplished nurses, and those who share your enthusiasm for the nursing profession.
- Learn from leading nurses: Your professors will dig in with you, seeking opportunities to provide ongoing mentorship and support. You'll learn from your peers, too, as you uncover their wide-ranging backgrounds and perspectives.
- A degree from a leading school of nursing: Earn your MSN from a school recognized as a "College of Distinction for Nursing" and named a Center of Excellence by the League for Nursing. Your experience and credentials will stand out regionally and nationally.
- Flexible courses and concentrations: Choose from four concentrations. Take classes online, with only one on-campus health assessment course required, in addition to an in-person clinical practica that can be completed in your home state of residence.
Interested in taking the fast track to a nursing doctorate? Explore the benefits
A Nationally Recognized MSN
MSN Concentrations
Family (Individual Across the Lifespan) CRNP
Become a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP) equipped with a wide range of critical skills to care for individuals across the life span.
Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Develop the expertise to deliver advanced healthcare services to critically ill and unstable patients in the adult-gerontology population (12 years or older).
Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Become a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) by learning to support patients in the adult to gerontology populations through acute care settings.
Take Two Steps Forward—Pursue a DNP
A Doctor of Nursing Practice—the terminal degree for nursing practice—will prepare you to work as an advanced practice nurse who delivers the highest level of quality care. And in Widener's program, you don't need an MSN to enroll.
Accelerate your path to the top of the field by going straight from a BSN to a DNP. Most BSN-DNP students earn their doctorate in 10 fewer credits than those who separately earn a MSN and a DNP.
Your Inside Track to Success
Recent Employers & Industry Connections
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Cooper University Hospital
- Main Line Health System
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
- Christiana Care Health System
- Einstein Medical Center
- St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
Outlook & Outcomes for MSN Degrees
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