Advancing Nurse Leaders Through
Scholarship and Reflective Practice . . .
The University of Mary Graduate Programs in Nursing offer a Master of Science degree designed to prepare you as a nurse leader. Knowledgeable teachers facilitate your attainment of the advanced knowledge and skill necessary to serve others in a variety of health care settings. Our programs of study enable you to pursue advanced education with:
- Flexibility and ease of delivery
- Professionals active in their own practices
- Increased competence as a professional nurse
- Evidenced-based practice, scholarship, and research
Mission
Grounded in the Benedictine tradition, we provide academic and nursing practice opportunities that prepare students for leadership in advanced practice and education in health care across a variety of settings along the continuum of care. Graduates will qualify to apply for national certification and/or doctoral study.
Philosophy
We believe that students desiring to be leaders who are competent, autonomous practitioners, and ethical decision makers are best served by faculty who facilitate reflective thinking and critical inquiry and by information that makes sense within the context in which it is learned.
Outcomes
- Demonstrate in practice a philosophy of nursing based on Benedictine values and graduate competencies
- Implement competent, holistic nursing at an advanced level to achieve quality, cost-effective, and ethical health outcomes
- Practice advanced nursing reflectively, guided by theory and expanded knowledge
- Utilize teaching principles and servant-leadership strategies to affect positive change in primary care and nursing practice along the health care continuum
- Collaborate with others to improve the quality of professional nursing practice and the health care system and influence health care policy
- Possess requisite knowledge to pursue doctoral education
Accreditation
The University of Mary nursing graduate program is approved by the North Dakota Board of Nursing and accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20036-1120, (202) 887-6791.
Faculty
Sister Mariah Dietz, D.N.Sc. (Director of Nursing Graduate Program); Billie Madler, M.S.N., F.N.P.; Fr. Paul Becker, M.Div.; Joan Doerner, M.S.N., Ed.D.; Diane Fladeland, Ph.D., A.N.P.; Annie Gerhardt, M.S.N., F.N.P.; Anne Heid, M.S.N.; Tom Johnson, Ed.D.; Rod Jonas, Ph.D.; Michael Mullen, J.D.; Stacey Pfennig, D.N.Pc., F.N.P.; Glenda Reemts, Ph.Dc., M.S.N.; Teree Rittenbach, Ph.D., G.N.P.; Julie Schmit, M.S.N., F.N.P.
