The Master of Science (MS) Degree with a Major in Nursing and Adult Nurse Practitioner specialization (MS/ANP) develops leadership and practice skills necessary to shape nursing practice in a dynamic, complex, and globally interdependent healthcare system.

The graduate program offers an innovative approach to advanced practice education by integrating expertise from other disciplines, (medicine, pharmacy, gerontology, audiology, speech pathology, social work, physical and occupational therapy).

The MS programs feature:

• Multidisciplinary study in a 630-hour preceptorship.
• Access to practice two nurse-managed clinics.
• Research opportunities on the Purdue West Lafayette campus.
• Option to take electives in the multidisciplinary gerontology program.
• A post-master's Adult Nurse Practitioner Certificate is available for students who have a master's in nursing. Required courses are individualized, based on previous master's curriculum.

For more information, call (765) 494-9248.

To apply online, visit this website.

Graduates will be eligible to take the ANP national certification exam offered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or the ANP national certification exam offered by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). Program graduates are expected to achieve the outcomes listed below.

Master of Science Program Goals

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

1. Evaluate client and family responses to health and illness as a basis for the promotion, restoration, and maintenance of health and functional abilities and the prevention of illness.
2. Synthesize theory and research in the management of the care of individuals and families in a specialized area of practice.
3. Integrate rural and urban nursing and non-nursing theorists into practice.
4. Use nursing interventions based on knowledge of the interrelationship among person, environment, health, and nursing.
5. Demonstrate role competence as an Advanced Practice Nurse.
6. Provide leadership in affecting positive changes in professional, social, political, and ethical situations to advance nursing, healthcare, and health policy.
7. Evaluate nursing and health systems effectiveness based on outcomes.
8. Demonstrate competencies as an Advanced Practice Nurse through successfully meeting national standards for certification.