The program emphasizes health promotion, maintenance, and preventions as well as managing individuals and families coping with acute and chronic illnesses. Indiana University-Purdue University at Columbus offers courses toward the completion of the LPN to A.S.N. mobility option. Indiana University Bloomington offers the first three years of the B.S.N. program along with limited fourth-year clinical placement options for those students wishing to maximize their time on the Bloomington campus. The goal of the M.S.N. degree program is to prepare graduates for leadership roles in advanced nursing practice, clinical specialization, and nursing administration. Post-master's options are available in all clinical areas and in nursing administration and teacher education.
Students select a major area of study when they apply for admission.
All degree requirements must be met within six years of initial enrollment. The Ph.D. in Nursing Science Degree program, which builds on baccalaureate nursing education, is based on the beliefs that professional nursing is a scientific discipline and that it has a unique role and body of knowledge that can be expanded, applied, and validated through recognized methods of scholarly inquiry. The LPN to A.S.N. mobility program enables students to apply previous nursing education toward earning an Associate of Science in Nursing degree. Graduates are eligible to take the registered nurse licensure examination. The RN to M.S.N. educational mobility option is available to qualified registered nurses who do not hold a baccalaureate degree in nursing but who have earned academic credit in addition to their initial registered nurse program.