{"id":11831,"date":"2025-05-22T15:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11831"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:13:34","slug":"augsburg-prepares-nurses-to-advance-health-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/22\/augsburg-prepares-nurses-to-advance-health-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg Prepares Nurses to Advance Health Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/HealthCommons_06-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/HealthCommons_06-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"A male nursing student wearing scrubs and a mask kneels down to provide a blood pressure check for a guest at the Augsburg Central Health Commons.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/HealthCommons_06-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/HealthCommons_06-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/HealthCommons_06-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/HealthCommons_06-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/HealthCommons_06-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/05\/HealthCommons_06-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Augsburg University\u2019s Master of Arts in Nursing program has a new name: Nursing Leadership to Advance Health Equity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The name change, effective in Fall 2025, reflects Augsburg\u2019s deep, long-standing commitments as well as a core focus of the discipline of nursing for the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNurses are on the front lines when it comes to improving health outcomes for diverse and underserved populations,\u201d said Associate Professor Katie Clark MAN \u201910, DNP \u201914, who chairs Augsburg\u2019s nursing department. \u201cOur alumni are passionate leaders who are equipped to advance health equity and address the social determinants of health at every level\u2014in the clinic, within complex health care systems, and beyond.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Students in the nursing leadership program take a total of 33 semester credit hours \u2014 eight 3-semester credit hour courses plus 9-semester credits of practicum. Local and global immersion practicum experiences provide opportunities for students to apply knowledge and gain experience partnering with diverse care providers, populations, and communities to address health inequities in creative and relevant ways. Short-term <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/immersion\/\"><span class=\"s2\">immersion experiences<\/span><\/a> are offered in places like Mexico, Guatemala, Namibia, and Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAt Augsburg, our commitment to mission is not just a discussion\u2014it\u2019s a call to action, and it is woven into everything we do,\u201d said Clark. \u201cThis name change represents more clearly who we are as a department and who we aspire to be as a collective with our students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Within Augsburg\u2019s School of Health, nursing students focus on interprofessional collaboration to foster just and inclusive care, alongside students studying social work, physician\u2019s assistant\/physician\u2019s associate studies, and clinical psychology. In addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/man\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Master of Arts in Nursing Leadership to Advance Health Equity<\/span><\/a>, Augsburg offers a range of nursing programs and pathways:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/bsn\/\"><span class=\"s3\">RN to BSN<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s4\"> (online)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li4\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/bsn\/pathway-options\/accelerated-rn-bsn-to-man\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Accelerated RN-BSN to MAN<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li4\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/man\/pathway-options\/graduate-certificate-health-equity-racial-justice\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Graduate Certificate in Health Equity and Racial Justice<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li4\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/dnp-fnp\/\"><span class=\"s3\">DNP \u2013 Family Nurse Practitioner<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li4\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/dnp-tcn\/\"><span class=\"s3\">DNP \u2013 Transcultural Nursing Leadership<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s7\">Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/augsburg.edu\/nursing\">augsburg.edu\/nursing<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg University\u2019s Master of Arts in Nursing program has a new name: Nursing Leadership to Advance Health Equity. The name change, effective in Fall 2025, reflects Augsburg\u2019s deep, long-standing commitments as well as a core focus of the discipline of nursing for the future.\u00a0 \u201cNurses are on the front lines when it comes to improving &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":11832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4053,3240,4046],"class_list":["post-11831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-man","tag-nursing","tag-school-of-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11833,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions\/11833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}