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Certificate After Graduate Education in Nursing (CAGE)
Online Graduate CertificateAdvance your nursing career beyond your current graduate nursing degree
The Certificate After Graduate Education in Nursing programs allows individuals who already have a master’s degree in nursing to add a different clinical emphasis. The program offers you three options: Family Nurse Practitioner, Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner or Nurse Educator, with each program individualized for your academic needs. This program plan is individualized for each student. A transcript review of the previous MSN courses will be completed providing an opportunity to increase nurse knowledge and clinical experience without duplicating courses previously completed.
Program Features and Benefits
- Add an additional clinical emphasis onto your Masters Degree in Nursing
- Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) accredited
- Part-time and full-time options are available.
- Our advanced health assessment course provides cutting edge opportunities for learning with experts.
- Clinical faculty members are involved in clinical practice and bring current practice to the classroom.
- Program is individualized for each student upon transcript review and emphasis selection
- Courses are built on a Christian foundation
- Two-week accelerated residency course may be required for some students.
- New CAGE to DNP option available
New CAGE to DNP Option
In our CAGE to DNP program, your CAGE credits are prerequisites for your Doctor of Nursing Practice program. This allows you to use financial aid for your entire program. If this is of interest to you, please address this in your admission essay.
Family Nurse Practioner
Course Number | Course Title | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSN 830 | Health Care Systems in Context | Health Care Systems in Context provides introductory information regarding the currently changing health care arena and the evolution of the role of advanced practice nurse (APN) . Content includes socio-economic, political and professional issues involved in the health care delivery process. | 2 |
| MSN 538 (On Campus) | Advanced Health Assessment | Residency Required -Advanced Health Assessment provides in-depth study of and experience in advanced health assessment. It utilizes a systematic approach that integrates aspects of past nursing courses and learning experiences into the implementation of critical thinking. Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning guides this process from factual information, analysis, judgments/decisions to implementation (synthesis) and subsequent evaluation. | 3 |
| BIO 836 | Pathophysiology | Pathophysiology explores basic mechanisms that cells possess to withstand adverse stimuli and relates these mechanisms to the etiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations of common disease processes. A thorough knowledge of anatomy and physiology is essential to the study of pathophysiology. | 3 |
| BIO 842 | Pharmacotherapeutics | Pharmacotherapeutics is a body systems approach to the study of the etiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of common disease processes throughout the life span. | 4 |
| COUN 843 | Counseling Theories and Issues | Counseling Theories and Issues provides both the historical and current perspectives of various theories of counseling, as well as introducing the student to the profession of counseling. The graduate counseling program requirements are introduced including portfolio requirements for school counseling candidates, APA writing style, and legal and ethical guidelines for counseling. | 3 |
| Electives - Select One of the Following | |||
| EDG 883 | Selected Issues in Family Life | Selected Issues in Family Lifeexplores issues in family systems and the cycle of family life. Topics focus on issues relating to family systems and stages of family development. The course is designed to generate an understanding of the family system in biological, psychosocial, and spiritual development. | 3 |
| COUN 880 | Family Development | Family Development explores issues in family systems and the cycle of family life. Topics focus on issues relating to family systems and stages of family development. The course is designed to generate an understanding of the family system in biological, psychological, and spiritual development. | 3 |
| Clinicals | |||
| MSN 851 | Advanced Nursing Practicum I FNP | Advanced Nursing Practicum I FNP develops and analyzes critical thinking and problem-solving skills necessary for the diagnosis and management of health promotion and disease prevention concerns for individuals . The emphasis is on the five variables of the Betty Neuman Systems Model (BNSM) during history taking, physical examination and beginning discussion of addition data collection. | 4 |
| MSN 852 | Advanced Nursing Practicum II FNP | Advanced Nursing Practicum II FNP assesses individuals presenting health challenges. Integration of pathophysiology, advanced health assessment, and pharmacotherapeutics with prevention as nursing intervention and medical supervision will be undertaken. Upon completion of this course, students will demonstrate advanced knowledge of common types of needs/problems presented by clients in primary health care settings, and will utilize this knowledge to develop clinical intervention strategies for planning patient care. | 4 |
| MSN 853 | Advanced Nursing Practicum III FNP | Advanced Nursing Practicum III FNP is the culminating practicum that includes the preventions as intervention of health promotion, wellness retention, and identification of illness and treatment of health problems . A community focus for primary and secondary prevention as an intervention modality will be discussed. The community may include the immediate surroundings of the individual’s residence, the city/jurisdiction of address, or a country of international description. Transcultural issues will include the environment for care delivery. The Advanced Primary Nursing Care focus will be on pediatric growth and development, pediatric wellness promotion, and health care delivery to pre-menopausal women. | 4 |
Adult/Gerontology Nurse Practitioner
Course Number | Course Title | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSN 830 | Health Care Systems in Context | Health Care Systems in Context provides introductory information regarding the currently changing health care arena and the evolution of the role of advanced practice nurse (APN) . Content includes socio-economic, political and professional issues involved in the health care delivery process. | 2 |
| MSN 538* (On Campus) | Advanced Health Assessment | Residency Required -Advanced Health Assessment provides in-depth study of and experience in advanced health assessment. It utilizes a systematic approach that integrates aspects of past nursing courses and learning experiences into the implementation of critical thinking. Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning guides this process from factual information, analysis, judgments/decisions to implementation (synthesis) and subsequent evaluation. | 3 |
| BIO 836 | Pathophysiology | Pathophysiology explores basic mechanisms that cells possess to withstand adverse stimuli and relates these mechanisms to the etiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations of common disease processes. A thorough knowledge of anatomy and physiology is essential to the study of pathophysiology. | 3 |
| BIO 842 | Pharmacotherapeutics | Pharmacotherapeutics is a body systems approach to the study of the etiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of common disease processes throughout the life span. | 4 |
| COUN 843 | Counseling Theories and Issues | Counseling Theories and Issues provides both the historical and current perspectives of various theories of counseling, as well as introducing the student to the profession of counseling. The graduate counseling program requirements are introduced including portfolio requirements for school counseling candidates, APA writing style, and legal and ethical guidelines for counseling. | 3 |
| Electives - Select One of the Following | |||
| EDG 883 | Selected Issues in Family Life | Selected Issues in Family Lifeexplores issues in family systems and the cycle of family life. Topics focus on issues relating to family systems and stages of family development. The course is designed to generate an understanding of the family system in biological, psychosocial, and spiritual development. | 3 |
| COUN 880 | Family Development | Family Development explores issues in family systems and the cycle of family life. Topics focus on issues relating to family systems and stages of family development. The course is designed to generate an understanding of the family system in biological, psychological, and spiritual development. | 3 |
| Clinicals | |||
| MSN 865 | Advanced Nursing Practicum I Adult/Gero | Advanced Nursing Practicum I FNP develops and analyzes critical thinking and problem-solving skills necessary for the diagnosis and management of health promotion and disease prevention concerns for individuals . The emphasis is on the five variables of the Betty Neuman Systems Model (BNSM) during history taking, physical examination and beginning discussion of addition data collection. | 4 |
| MSN 866 | Advanced Nursing Practicum II Adult/Gero | Advanced Nursing Practicum II FNP assesses individuals presenting health challenges. Integration of pathophysiology, advanced health assessment, and pharmacotherapeutics with prevention as nursing intervention and medical supervision will be undertaken. Upon completion of this course, students will demonstrate advanced knowledge of common types of needs/problems presented by clients in primary health care settings, and will utilize this knowledge to develop clinical intervention strategies for planning patient care. | 4 |
| MSN 867 | Advanced Nursing Practicum III Adult/Gero | Advanced Nursing Practicum III FNP is the culminating practicum that includes the preventions as intervention of health promotion, wellness retention, and identification of illness and treatment of health problems . A community focus for primary and secondary prevention as an intervention modality will be discussed. The community may include the immediate surroundings of the individual’s residence, the city/jurisdiction of address, or a country of international description. Transcultural issues will include the environment for care delivery. The Advanced Primary Nursing Care focus will be on pediatric growth and development, pediatric wellness promotion, and health care delivery to pre-menopausal women. | 4 |
Nurse Educator
Course Number | Course Title | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSN 830 | Health Care Systems in Context | Health Care Systems in Context provides introductory information regarding the currently changing health care arena and the evolution of the role of advanced practice nurse (APN) . Content includes socio-economic, political and professional issues involved in the health care delivery process. | 2 |
| MSN 538* (On Campus) | Advanced Health Assessment | Residency Required -Advanced Health Assessment provides in-depth study of and experience in advanced health assessment. It utilizes a systematic approach that integrates aspects of past nursing courses and learning experiences into the implementation of critical thinking. Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning guides this process from factual information, analysis, judgments/decisions to implementation (synthesis) and subsequent evaluation. | 3 |
| BIO 836 | Pathophysiology | Pathophysiology explores basic mechanisms that cells possess to withstand adverse stimuli and relates these mechanisms to the etiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations of common disease processes. A thorough knowledge of anatomy and physiology is essential to the study of pathophysiology. | 3 |
| MSN 842 | Pharmacology: Concepts for Integration into Nursing Education | 2 | |
| EDG 807 | Curriculum Development | Curriculum Development considers the factors that influence design, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum .Emphasis will be placed on major educational philosophies and their respective approaches to curriculum development. | 3 |
| EDG 821 | Human Learning & Motivation | Human Learning & Motivation examines the nature of contrasting theories of learning. Emphasis will be placed on major contemporary learning theories and their respective approaches to motivation. The primary objective is to provide in-service graduate students, as well as other school personnel, with a comprehensive picture of current major educational learning theories and issues and to develop their implication for the teaching process. | 3 |
| MSN 877 | Evaluation and Testing in Nursing | Evaluation and Testing in Nursing describes concepts of measurement, evaluation, and testing in nursing education . Issues in test planning, writing, and assembling of items, and analysis of results are discussed. The course includes topics in the evaluation of critical think and performance in the assessment of clinical competencies. Ethical and legal issues involved in the evaluation process are discussed. The course is useful for teachers in any setting who are involved in evaluating students, nurses, or other health care professionals. | 3 |
| Clinicals | |||
| MSN 871 | Advanced Specialty Nursing Practice for Nurse Educators | Advanced Nursing Practicum I AGNP develops and analyzes critical thinking and problem-solving skills necessary for the diagnosis and management of health promotion and disease prevention concerns for individuals . The emphasis is on the five variables of the Betty Neuman Systems Model (BNSM) during history taking, physical examination and beginning discussion of addition data collection. | 3 |
| MSN 872 | Instruction Design in Nursing Education A: Classroom Teaching | Student-centered curriculum design development and related learning outcomes, learning experiences, and evaluation of learning for classroom education is the course focus. | 3 |
| MSN 874 | Instruction Design in Nursing Education B: Clinical Teaching | Student-centered curriculum design development and related learning outcomes, learning experiences, and evaluation of learning for classroom education is the course focus. | 4 |