Nursing
The headlines have been prominent and frequent in all the national media, and the message is clear: National demand for professional nurses in all areas is far outpacing the number of practicing nurses. From emergency rooms to walk-in clinics, nurses' contributions to patient care have never been more important - or necessary. Nurses bring heightened knowledge of health care practices and technologies and an acute ability to integrate a patient's health care, personal and spiritual needs to deliver high quality, evidence-based nursing care.
THE MARQUETTE ADVANTAGE
DIRECT ADMISSION. Your passion for nursing won't be put on hold. Marquette's direct admission policy means you'll start your nursing courses on the first day.
The Student Perspective
WE DELIVER. We alone. Graduates of our nurse-midwifery program, the only such program in Wisconsin, have established practices in hospitals and clinics to help mothers and fathers bring sons and daughters into the world.
JUMP START. Classroom learning is necessary, and real experience is essential. In your third year, you will begin seven distinct practica.
LEARN FROM THE BEST. Your professors will be nurses who have distinguished themselves with practice and research in pre-term labor prevention, alternative therapies, quality of life and chronic illness, and early detection of breast cancer in low-income women. They've also taken their care abroad to a variety of international settings. Faculty, in collaboration with advanced practice nurses, also provide care at Marquette's own Neighborhood Health Center.
FOUR YEARS AND OUT. If you follow the college's rigorous program plan, you will graduate in four years.
DUAL STUDY. Gain a competitive edge from dual study in nursing and physical therapy, nursing and pre-medicine, or nursing and psychology.
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Suggested curriculum
Your major courses blue.
Freshman
- Dimensions of Professional Nursing
- Rhetoric and Composition I & II
- General Psychology
- Introduction to Theology
- Principles of Human Anatomy and Physiology
- Philosophy of Human Nature
- Chemistry for the Health Professions
- Biochemistry
- Elective
Sophomore
- Foundations of Nursing Practice
- Health Assessment
- Pathophysiology I
- Pharmacotherapeutics for Nursing Practice
- Culture and Health
- Histories of Cultures and Societies Elective
- The Family
- Human Microbiology
- Introduction to Lifespan Development
- Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition
Junior
- Childbearing Family Nursing – Theory and Practicum
- Essentials of Gerontological Nursing
- Introduction to Nursing Research
- Mental Health Nursing – Theory and Practicum
- Nursing Care of Adults – Theory and Practicum
- Pathophysiology II
- Mathematical Reasoning Elective
- Theory of Ethics
Senior
- Family Centered Nursing of Children – Theory and Practicum
- Nursing Care of Acutely Ill Adults – Theory and Practicum
- Nursing Communities – Theory and Practicum
- Nursing Leadership
- Synthesis Practicum
- Literature/Performing Arts Elective
- Theology Elective
WHERE OUR GRADUATES GO
While some of our graduates pursue further studies in graduate school, most start working right away. In fact, 100 percent of our graduates who sought employment found it within three months of graduation, at an average starting salary of $50,000. They work as hospital staff nurses, health care executives, advanced practice nurses and nurse researchers with places such as:
- Aurora Health Care Systems
- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps
- Milwaukee Health Department
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
- Portsmouth Naval Medical Center (Virginia)
- Visiting Nurse Assocation
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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