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> College
of Nursing
About the College
Our Mission
The mission of the MSU College of Nursing is to provide leadership for professional nursing through excellence in education, research, and service.
Accordingly, we:
- Inspire baccalaureate and graduate students, within a diverse, challenging, and engaging learning environment, to become leaders in the practice of professional nursing.
- Explore, discover, and disseminate, new knowledge related to nursing and health care.
- Create an interactive environment in which faculty and students integrate discovery, learning and the application of knowledge to nursing practice.
- Promote the health of Montanans and the global community through collaboration, sharing of expertise, civic engagement, and leadership in the profession
Overview & History
The MSU-Bozeman College of Nursing
- is one of seven colleges within the university.
- is the only publicly supported, generic baccalaureate nursing program in
Montana.
- is the largest supplier of baccalaureate-prepared nurses for service in
the state.
- is Montana's sole provider of graduate nursing education, offering a rurally-focused
Master of Nursing program that prepares students for certification as family
nurse practitioners (FNPs) and clinical nurse leaders (CNLs).
The MSU-Bozeman College of Nursing was founded in 1937 and has received continuous
national accreditation since 1949. Since its inception, the College has been
a multi-campus program, making effective use of educational and clinical resources
in the state. The College's administration is located on the main campus of
MSU-Bozeman, where most undergraduate students complete lower division nursing
requirements. Students move to one of the campuses located in the state's
major populations areas, Bozeman, Billings, Great Falls, Kalispell, and Missoula,
to complete their upper division course work. With their greater population
concentrations, these communities possess health care facilities that provide
the degree of complexity, size and diversity of patient population needed for
upper division clinical experience. Each of the College's campuses has resident
faculty who serve both undergraduate and graduate students.
As a multi-site program in a rural setting, the College meets a number of
challenges related to maintaining program identity and quality in each location. At
the graduate level, for example, accessibility is balanced with close supervision
by combining distance education, "face-to-face" classes and on-site
clinical supervision. Graduate students may access courses from any of the
College's four campuses via teleconference, online, and interactive video.
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