University of North Carolina, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has a top-ranked nursing program. This public university offers a fully-accredited RN to MSN nursing program for licensed RNs. This program was ranked as the fifth best graduate nursing school in the nation according to U.S. News' most recent college rankings (2007). In this program, once you have completed all prerequisite courses, you will choose an advanced practice area, including options such as Adult Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Health Care Systems Specialist (Administration, Outcomes Management, Education or Informatics). Once you choose your area of emphasis, you will be required to take three undergraduate nursing courses: Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing Practice, Improving Nursing Practice: Application of Concepts, Theories and Research and Community Health Nursing for the Public’s Health. Once those are completed you will go on to complete 39 to 42 credit hours of graduate-level classes in the area you choose including courses in the professional, research and clinical cores. You will need to complete 51 credit hours of college-level classes and specific pre-nursing courses before you can be accepted into this program.
University of North Carolina
130 Mason Farm Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919-966-5296
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Duke University's RN to MSN program is also a highly-ranked nursing program. Duke University is located in Durham, North Carolina. Duke offers a fully-accredited RN to MSN program, which was ranked as the 15th best nursing school in the nation according to U.S. News. The program allows you to choose an emphasis in a particular area such as nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, non-clinical and nurse anesthesia. The classes that you will take depend on the course of study that you choose. The length of these programs vary from 39 to 60 credit hours in addition to any prerequisite and undergraduate nursing courses you may be required to do. Graduates of this program will earn a master's degree in nursing.
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-8111
duke.edu
Queens University of Charlotte is a fully-accredited private master's university located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Queens offers an accelerated RN to MSN program that will expand your knowledge in the nursing field into areas such as nursing theory and issues, research, informatics and health policy. In this program, you will have the choice in an area of concentration: clinical nurse leader, nurse educator practices and health systems management. The classes vary depending on the area of concentration that you choose and each program is 35 to 38 credit hours in length. Once you graduate from this program you will be awarded a master's degree in nursing.
Queens University of Charlotte
1900 Selwyn Ave.
Charlotte, NC 28274
704-337-2200
queens.edu