WellStar School of Nursing: Degree Programs

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program

The WellStar Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program builds upon the competencies established during Baccalaureate Nursing education.

The WellStar Primary Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program at Kennesaw State University enables graduates to:

1. Provide culturally competent age-specific primary care to diverse clients based on a strong theoretical and research foundation, thereby improving healthcare delivery and client care outcomes.
2. Use critical thinking, clinical judgment skills and ethics to make safe, independent and interdependent clinical decisions, incorporating principles of health promotion, assessment, diagnosis and management of client potential and actual healthcare problems in a variety of settings.
3. Utilize therapeutic and professional communication techniques with clients, colleagues and other healthcare professionals in order to facilitate client self care, coordinate services, secure consultations and referrals by using advanced information and communication technologies when appropriate.
4. Assume the role of the advanced practice nurse by demonstrating accountability for the quality of one's own practice, engaging in professional activities, advocating for change, and working effectively in interdisciplinary relationships.
5. Demonstrate leadership in roles as divergent as clinician, educator, advocate, and manager in a variety of areas such as education, practice and community health programs by influencing healthcare delivery systems as shaped by healthcare policy and societal norms and expectations.

Advanced Care Management & Leadership Program

The MSN in Advanced Care Management & Leadership Program builds upon the competencies established during the Baccalaureate Nursing education.

The MSN in Advanced Care Management & Leadership Program at Kennesaw State University enables graduates to have:

1. An understanding of a variety of ethical systems, the importance of ethics in healthcare, and the ability to infuse them into the organizational culture.
2. The ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve organizational problems in responsible and ethical ways.
3. An understanding of and a commitment to human resource management within a healthcare organization.
4. The acquisition of the knowledge and skills needed to oversee budgets and participate in financial planning.
5. The ability to evaluate, utilize, and conduct various types of research.
6. Competence in the utilization of information resources and analytical tools including qualitative and quantitative analysis, logic, and reasoning to predict and solve organizational problems.
7. The ability to provide culturally competent age-specific care to diverse clients based on a strong theoretical and research foundation thereby improving healthcare delivery and client outcomes.
8. An understanding of normal and abnormal human physiologic responses to pertinent pathologic conditions in order to successfully intervene and improve client care outcomes.
9. An understanding of pharmacological principles, including pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamcis in order to improve client care outcomes.
10. The demonstration of leadership in roles as divergent as clinician, educator, advocate, and manager in a variety of areas such as practice, education, and community health programs by influencing healthcare delivery systems as shaped by healthcare policy and societal norms and expectations.