MSN: Nursing Innovation Concentration

Major: Nursing Innovation
Degree Awarded: Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
Calendar Type: Quarter
Total Credit Hours: 45.0 minimum
Co-op Option: None
Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code: 51.3818
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 29-1141

NOTE: No applications will be accepted for the 2021-2022 academic year. Please check back in summer 2022 for an update.

About the Program

The online MSN in Nursing Innovation is designed for the graduate nursing student who seeks to re-invent and transform nursing practice in today's tumultuous healthcare system. Graduates of this accredited program fill innovative and problem-solving roles as clinicians, educators, administrators, and clinical scientists; some students choose to move toward and succeed in the business environment of healthcare.

This pioneering master's degree emphasizes problem-solving and creative approaches to advance nursing practice and improve and change healthcare delivery while focusing on models, methods, environments, and processes that will give students the tools to transform ideas into reality. It offers a flexible, but rigorous, curriculum including a substantial capstone project that demonstrates innovation and pushing the creative boundaries to promote real and substantive change.

This program:

• Gives students the ability to make ideas a reality
• Teaches students new skills to support changing ideas into reality
• Develops students as creative and inventive nurses who can make meaningful and unique contributions to the healthcare industry
• Is a good fit for students whose career objectives may not be met by a traditional graduate nursing curriculum or career paths

With approval, students may design an individualized plan of study to meet the program requirements or use the 4-5 electives to obtain a post-baccalaureate certificate in a specialty area of interest including, but not limited to, the list below:

• Leadership in Health Systems Management
• Nursing Education
• Substance Use Disorders Counseling
• Project Management
• Healthcare Informatics
• Complementary & Integrative Therapies

The program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

Additional Information

More information is also available on the Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions website and the Drexel University Online Nursing Innovation webpage.

Admission Requirements

• BSN from a program fully accredited by NLN and or CCNE
• 3.0 or above on all previous coursework or the last 60.0 credits completed. Applications from RNs with a GPA less than 3.0 may be considered on an individual basis.
• Official transcripts from all previous educational institutions are required.
• Two professional references required from colleagues or supervisors who can attest to the applicant’s knowledge, skill, and potential aptitude for graduate study
• Personal statement (no more than two pages and no less than one page double-spaced) that will give the admissions committee a better understanding of the following:
  • Describe your proposed capstone project.
  • Would your capstone project be intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial?
  • Is your capstone a project, program, or product?
  • Who is your target audience?
• Curriculum vitae or resume
• Copy of current United States RN license required
• Copies of any Advanced Practice Nursing licensure and certification documents
• While specific experience is not required for applicants to the track, previous related work experience may make an applicant more competitive.

International applicants must possess a BSN (or its equivalent) and current US RN license.

TOEFL Requirement

International applicants, as well as immigrants to the United States and United States permanent residents whose native language is not English and who have not received a bachelor’s degree or higher in the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, or the United Kingdom, must show proficiency in English speaking as well as listening, writing, and reading. U.S. citizens born on U.S. military bases abroad may be waived from the TOEFL requirement after providing documentation of this status; otherwise, applicants must meet one of the following requirements:

If you take the TOEFLiBT exam, you are required to have a minimum combined score for the listening, writing, and reading sections of 79 plus a speaking section score of 26 or higher.

If you take the TOEFL, you are required to have a minimum score of 550 or higher and a Test of Spoken English score (TSE) of 55 or higher.

Degree Requirements

Writing-Intensive Course Requirement

A [WI], Writing Intensive, next to a graduate course in this catalog indicates that the graduate course is a writing intensive course. The graduate course is a required course in your curriculum.

Sample Plan of Study

Note: Some terms are less than the 4.5-credit minimum required (considered half-time status) of graduate programs to be considered financial aid eligible. As a result, aid will not be disbursed to students these terms.