ACADEMICS- Thesis or Graduate Project
Students
have two options for fulfilling their Master of Arts in Nursing
final project, which serves as the capstone of the master’s
program: a graduate field project, or an integrative master’s
thesis.
The Graduate Field Project, NUR 525, is based on a self-selected issue relevant to transcultural community health nursing, or nursing leadership. The student will focus primarily on the application and integration of knowledge. Working with an adviser, the student will design and/or implement and evaluate a model of advanced practice nursing applied to solving a transcultural problem related to health inequities in a selected community, or a nursing leadership issue.
The integrative thesis option, NUR 535, expands upon and/or extends theoretical foundations or concepts identified in transcultural nursing, community health nursing, and/or nursing leadership literature. The thesis project demonstrates the student’s ability to do independent research involving the exposition of primary and secondary literature appropriate to the topic, the collection and analysis of empirical data, and the articulation of implications for advanced practice nursing.
Students must complete all coursework and defend the project within two years after registration. For additional information, please refer to the “Graduate Field Project or Integrative Thesis Procedures and Policies” booklet available through the Nursing Department.
