Earning a master's in community health nursing means you're earning your Master of Science degree with a specialization in community-based public health. For our purposes "community health" and "public health" refer to the same practice. By naming our specialization "Community-based public health," we're emphasizing the central role the community plays in public health and that interventions and programming are best performed when they are rooted in the values and interests of the community itself. Our MSN public health specialization will shape you into a community health leader, prepared to identify high-risk populations and work in partnership with community members to develop culturally appropriate interventions. In the public health specialization, you will take the same 12 credits of core nursing courses (plus 13 more bachelor's level nursing credits if you're in the accelerated RN-MSN program) as all MSN students. Additionally, you will take 25 credits of public health nursing courses, as outlined above.