Overview

Nursing- RN to MS- Nursing Education (Online) is offered by University of Southern Maine. Designed to be flexible for working nurses, this efficient degree plan features undergraduate coursework provided by the University of Maine at Fort Kent and graduate coursework from USM.

Key Facts

As a student, you will focus on integrating nursing, humanities, and education theory to facilitate learning and improve nursing across diverse settings. Graduate coursework for this advanced nursing program meets the educational criteria for the National League for Nursing (NLN) Nurse Educator Certificate while providing a foundation for continued professional development as well as for doctoral study. Save time and money—and take fewer courses than if you were to earn your BSN and master's separately—by earning this CCNE-accredited RN to MS in Nursing online in as few as 24 months. The baccalaureate courses in this program emphasize the clinical reasoning that drives a culture of safety while developing your ability to use evidence-based practice to make decisions for quality outcomes. This portion of the program prepares you for graduate-level work, which teaches you to:

Demonstrate an advanced level of understanding of nursing, humanities, and education theory and integrate this knowledge to facilitate learning and improve nursing across diverse settings
Demonstrate teaching effectiveness to improve patient outcomes and leadership skills to implement change in practice and education systems
Create learning experiences that support cognitive, psychomotor, and affective development
Utilize technology in the teaching-learning process to support delivery of high quality and safe patient care
Translate research into practice through critical appraisal of existing evidence to resolve education and practice problems, disseminate results, and develop evidence-based teaching, assessment, and evaluation practices
Synthesize broad ecological, global, epidemiological, cultural, and social determinants of health in order to integrate evidence-based population principles into nursing curricula

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Promoting Healthy Communities

Holistic Health Assessment

Health Promotions

Transcultural Care in Nursing

Health Related Research
Health Care Ethics & the Law

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-05-19 00:00:00

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Starting 2026-09-03 00:00:00

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Starting 2027-01-21 00:00:00

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6 start dates per year

Language

English

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Credits

36 SCH

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Gorham, United States

Disciplines

Education Nursing View 707 other Masters in Nursing in United States

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Academic requirements

GPA

English requirements

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General requirements

Provide financial documentation that shows you are able to support educational and living costs.
Pay the US $50 application fee (except Canadian applicants).
Submit an official evaluation of college-level transcripts approved by one of the following transcript analysis agencies:
National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES)
Association of International Credential Evaluators (AICE)
Evaluations must be course-by-course and provide verification that the degree you hold is equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in the United States
NOTE: Some universities in Canada are exempt

Tuition Fees

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9468 USD / year

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Out-of-State

9468 USD / year

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9468 USD / year

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Programme Structure

Key information

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Credits

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