Nursing

Overview

Nursing from Western Michigan University offers a choice of three tracks: nurse educator, addiction or gerontology

Career Prospects

Our graduates areleaders in promoting health care in individuals and communities.

Graduates with Nursing from Western Michigan University will:

• Integrate scientific findings from nursing biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing practice across diverse settings.

• Demonstrate leadership skills that emphasize ethical and critical decision-making, effective working relationships, and a systems-perspective.

• Use the methods, tools, performance measures and standards related to quality, as well as apply quality principles within an organization.

• Demonstrate the ability to apply research outcomes within the practice setting, resolve practice problems, work as a change agent, and disseminate results.

• Use patient-care technologies to deliver and enhance care and use communication technologies to integrate and coordinate care.

• Demonstrate the ability to intervene at the system level through the policy development process and employ advocacy strategies to influence health and health care.

• Engage as a member and leader of interprofessional teams, communicate, collaborate, and consult with other health professionals to manage and coordinate care.

• Apply patient-centered and culturally responsive evidence-based strategies in the delivery of clinical prevention and health promotion interventions and/or services to individuals, families, communities, and aggregates/clinical populations.