The University of Kansas

KU is a major comprehensive research and teaching institution that serves as a center for learning, scholarship, and creative endeavor. KU is the only Kansas Regents institution to hold membership in the Association of American Universities, a select group of 62 public and private research universities that represent excellence in graduate and professional education and the highest achievements in research internationally.

The School of Nursing

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The KU School of Nursing prepares students for a world that is vastly different than that which awaited the first graduating class in 1909. The continuing evolution of health care and technology opens new doors for nurses. Ranked as one of the top 29 public university schools of nursing in the nation, KU is proud of the academic opportunities available to undergraduate and graduate students. The KU School of Nursing's baccalaureate and master's programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

In 2000, a new multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art School of Nursing Building opened. This 103,000 square-foot facility enhances the School's ability to provide an integrated education that crosses multiple disciplines and introduces students to the latest in medical and information technology.

Reconstruction efforts go beyond the new bricks and mortar that house the School at the KU Medical Center. Using advanced information technology, School of Nursing faculty created innovative, interactive web-based courses in all of the programs. KUMC is an AA/EO/Title IX Institution.

BSN Program

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The BSN is designed to prepare graduates for professional nursing practice in hospitals and other health care agencies. They are prepared for continuing their education through Master's and Doctoral programs in nursing.

RN-to-MS Program

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This program allows registered nurses to earn both a BSN degree and a MS degree. It integrates requirements from the RN-to-BSN program and the master's program. Students take course-work at the graduate level that would normally be required at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

MS Program

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The Master of Science in nursing program enlarges the focus of nursing, using as its foundation the basic baccalaureate nursing program. The program's goals are directed toward educating the:

• Clinical Nurse Specialist
  • Adult/Gerontological
• Nurse-Midwife
• Nurse Practitioner
  • Adult/Gerontological
  • Family Nurse Practitioner with focus areas available in Psychiatric Nursing and Women's Health
  • Psychiatric/Mental Health
• Nursing Leadership
  • Organizational Leadership
  • Public Health Nursing
  • Healthcare Informatics
• MS in nursing/MS in Health Services Administration
• Post-Master's Certificates
  • Health Care Outcomes Management & Research Certificate
  • Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Certificate
  • Nurse-Midwife Certificate
  • Nurse Educator Certificate

Web-based Programs

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Through the KU Medical Center's Virtual Classroom, the School of Nursing brings the classroom into students' homes so they can choose when, where and how they learn within a prescribed set of criteria. KU has the following programs available through the virtual classroom:

• Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Certificate
• Complete RN-to-BSN
• MS in nursing with a major in Family Nurse Practitioner or Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner for BSN-prepared nurses who have already completed an NP certificate program. (Courses for this are offered entirely on the web.)

Post-Master’s Study and Certificate Programs

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The KU School of Nursing offers post-graduate opportunities in all majors for master's- prepared nurses seeking to add specialties. An individualized plan of study is developed between the student and the non-degree advisor.

• Nurse Educator (online)
• Nurse-Midwife
• Outcomes Management & Research
• Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (online)

Doctoral Program

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The KU School of Nursing doctoral program focuses on the development of critical thinking, independent decision-making, and evaluation. Students develop expertise in research methods related to the biological, social, and nursing sciences. Individual interests are explored through study in a related discipline. Learning is achieved through independent study and research, as well as through completion of courses of instruction. Students can apply to the doctoral program post BSN or post masters with a major in nursing. (Includes joint degree option: PhD/Master of Business Administration).

Nurse Anesthesia Program

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KU offers a Master of Science in Nurse Anesthesia through the School of Allied Health. Call (913) 588-6612.

Diversity

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Diversity is an important core value at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC). Diversity is defined at KUMC as everything that makes each person different and those things about each person that are similar. Diversity is what we can see and what we cannot see in each and every person at anytime, anywhere. Our medical center community is a community of each of us and all of us. It is a community-within-a-community. As a teaching, research and health care facility, we are diverse by the nature of our varying missions. The members of our community are here for different reasons. They include students, teachers, researchers, patients, families, visitors, employees and members of our local and regional community who come in contact with each of us and all of us in a variety of ways.

Information

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