Nursing

Molloy’s nursing programs prepare skilled, compassionate professionals who are focused on providing evidence-based care to improve people’s lives. Nurses, the largest group of healthcare providers in the US, deliver patient care services, lead people and organizations, generate and test interventions for nursing practice, and work to improve people’s health and quality of life across every setting where people have health needs, from hospitals to clinics to schools to community settings.

Our undergraduate programs offer a vibrant educational experience integrating theory and clinical practice within a framework of humanistic nursing practice valuing the inherent dignity of all people. Our students have rich clinical experiences including maternity/family nursing, pediatrics, adult health and illness, psychiatric mental health, and community health. Students develop strong critical thinking, clinical judgment, and ethical decision-making competencies, preparing them for evidence-based nursing practice and lifelong learning.

Graduate and doctoral programs in a variety of clinical specialty areas prepare students as advanced practice nurses, nurse executives, nurse educators, nurse researchers, and healthcare leaders, grounded in our philosophy of humanistic nursing practice. Meaningful curricula, along with relevant practicum or clinical experiences are directed toward development of competencies for current and future advanced nursing roles, ethical leadership, professional advancement, ongoing contributions to the profession of nursing and lifelong learning.

Our faculty are expert clinicians, scholars and educators who are innovative and creative, friendly, and accessible to students and deeply committed to your success. A low faculty- to- student ratio facilitates meeting your individual needs. Students at every level in every nursing program have an academic advisor, as well as access to our extensive support services, to promote academic progress.

Both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs use our state-of-the-art Clinical Learning Center, located in The Barbara H. Hagan Nursing Center and at Molloy’s Amityville extension site. The Clinical Learning Center is comprised of extensive, leading-edge skills and simulation laboratories, which offer a supportive, safe learning environment for the development and advancement of clinical skills, guided by expert nursing faculty and experienced nursing lab instructors.

Molloy's simulation program is endorsed by the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL).

All of Molloy’s nursing programs prepare our graduates to live the Molloy mission and to achieve their professional and career goals. Earn your degree at Molloy University and take the best step toward becoming the nurse leader of tomorrow.

Mission, Goals and Outcomes

Nursing Program Mission

To challenge students, faculty, and community partners toward excellence as they advance their professional and personal development as nurse generalists, as advanced practice nurses, as nurse scholars, and as nurse leaders through a lifelong process of creative, ethical, and collegial discourse and practice.
Nursing Program Goals
- Provide educational programs that prepare professional nurses for leadership roles in the delivery, design, and evaluation of nursing care that is evidence-based, humanistic, and responsive to the ethical, cultural, spiritual, and psychosocial needs of individuals, families and communities.
- Create a collaborative environment of scholarly inquiry and learning to advance knowledge in the discipline of nursing and to improve healthcare.
- Encourage excellence in teaching/learning, professional development, scholarship, and service within the university, community, and profession of nursing.
Nursing Undergraduate Program Outcomes
1. Demonstrates professional practice that upholds the inherent worth and dignity of individuals, families, and communities, sensitive to their diverse spiritual and cultural needs.
2. Synthesizes knowledge from the humanities, sciences and nursing as the foundation for critical thinking and decision making.
3. Employs effective communication skills throughout the scope of professional practice.
4. Utilizes evolving technology to promote quality patient outcomes.
5. Provides consistent, safe and competent patient centered care.
6. Considers the complex economic, legal, political and ethical issues affecting the delivery of care in the dynamic and global health care environment.
7. Assumes responsibility and accountability for professional nursing practice.
8. Demonstrates beginning leadership abilities as a member of an interdisciplinary health care team.
9. Evaluates and integrates research that supports evidence-based nursing practice.
10. Demonstrates intellectual inquisitiveness and a life-long commitment to learning.
Nursing Graduate Program Outcomes
1. Demonstrates and transmits a belief in the inherent worth and dignity of all individuals through role modeling professional nursing.
2. Demonstrates advanced competencies and ethical decision making.
3. Assumes responsibility and accountability for advanced professional practice in an increasingly complex health care environment.
4. Assumes a leadership role based on theory, research and expert practice.
5. Designs and implements research.
6. Advocates for an environment of health in a global society.
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Outcomes
1. Translate evidence-based nursing research into advance practice nursing to improve healthcare quality and patient outcomes.
2. Function as a practice specialist member of interdisciplinary research teams with the goal of improving clinical outcomes.
3. Employ applied statistics, financial management and budget planning to transform and strengthen health systems.
4. Develop leadership skills at all levels of health systems development- institutional, local, state, federal, and international.
5. Demonstrate expertise in information systems technology in evaluating outcomes of care, health systems and quality improvement.

The baccalaureate degree program in nursing, master's degree program in nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice program and post-graduate APRN certificate program at Molloy University is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://www.ccneaccreditation.org).

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