Nursing: MSN in Innovation and Intra/Entrepreneurship in Advanced Nursing Practice

This online degree is the first MSN degree of its kind in the nation. It is designed for the graduate nursing student who seeks to re-invent and innovate in nursing practice in a variety of roles, as clinician, educator, administrator, clinical scientist or in the business environment of healthcare. It is designed to emphasize entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial approaches to advanced nursing practice. This MSN track offers maximal curriculum flexibility and includes the designing of a substantive capstone project that demonstrates innovation and the extension of the creative boundaries in nursing education, nursing administration, or nursing practice.

This MSN track is for the highly disciplined, independently thinking graduate nursing student whose career objectives may not be met by a more traditional graduate nursing curriculum. The ultimate aim of this ground-breaking degree is to graduate forward thinking nurses who may make unique contributions to nursing and healthcare.

The Drexel MSN Innovation Capstone Project
Under the direction of a nursing faculty mentor with direct expertise in the student’s planned project, students will spend three quarters developing an innovative capstone project. The faculty mentor may also require the student to obtain an additional non-faculty co-mentor in the area of the student’s project. The student will complete the project by submitting an extensive portfolio of the project’s conception, development, implementation and evaluation. The student will also submit the original work product, i.e. invention, innovation, design, paper, etc. Finally, the student will submit a 30-minute videotaped presentation of the project. During this three quarter period, students will attend class online, both synchronously and asynchronously, to discuss the progress of their projects – both pitfalls and successes, and provide support to each other during this period of creative, but independent work.

Key Program Features:

• Fully accredited by National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission (NLNAC) & the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
• Quality education online through a highly interactive eLearning method that is extremely convenient for working nurses
• Special tuition plans for employees of health system partners
• 46 quarter credit graduate program with one innovative capstone project
• Designed for part-time attendance by working nurses.

Innovation and Intra/Entrepreneurship in Advanced Nursing Practice

Curriculum:	Curriculum
Plan of Study:	Plan of Study
Track Coordinator:	Vicki D. Lachman, PhD, APRN, MBE
Advisor:	Academic Advisor – Redian Furxhiu

Additional Detailed Descriptions of the Program:

• Innovation MSN Concept Paper
• Frequently Asked Questions about Innovation Track

People Guiding your Program of Study:

Faculty

• Dean Gloria Donnelly Ph.D., RN, FAAN
• H. Michael Dreher, D.N.Sc., RN
• Jean S. MacFadyen, Ph.D., R.N.
• Kathleen Fisher PhD, CRNP
• Terry D. Kirk, EdD, RN, CNAA-BC
• Vicki D. Lachman, PhD, APRN, MBE
  
  

• Dreher article
• Innovation Entrepreneurship
  (Jan - Feb 2007 Clin Nurse Spec)
• RN 2007 entrepreneur article
• Older,Wiser and Wired- Jean S. MacFadyen, Ph.D., R.N. (Nov 17, 1997 Nursing Specturm)