✓ Dedicated clinical placement team
✓ Flexible program tailored for working nurses
✓ 100% online program
Advance in Healthcare with SVSU's Master of Science in Nursing!
Graduate Admissions Office
The Graduate Admissions Office is here to guide you to your SVSU graduate degree. We can help with application requirements and deadlines, program fit, and next steps — transcripts, recommendations, and funding.
To connect with a graduate admissions representative, use the Schedule Meeting button or text/call (989) 461-2025 or email gradadm@svsu.edu.
MSN Program Coordinator
Contact me at tpobocik@svsu.edu or (989) 964-2893 for questions about the MSN program.
Tami Pobocik PhD, MSN, RN
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The Master of Science in Nursing degree at SVSU prepares registered professional nurses for practice as a Nurse Educator, Nurse Administrator, Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Dual Nurse Education / Nurse Administrator. More affordable than comparable programs with a variety of loans and scholarships available, SVSU’s Master of Science in Nursing program is a convenient and cost-effective way to advance your nursing career.
You can go from showing up for a shift, to showing up for your community. Designed for the working nurse, our Master of Science in Nursing program teaches valuable leadership techniques from experienced educators with real-world experience. Immerse yourself in a supportive and flexible environment that prepares you to work with your team and transform systems in clinical and academic settings, as well as in your communities.
MSN Nurse Educator, MSN Nurse Administrator and MSN Dual Nurse Educator/Nurse Administrator programs are fully online.
Nurse Administrator
The nurse administrator is accountable for staffing, resource acquisition and distribution, and patient care services within a health care system. Responsibilities include the development and maintenance of programs consistent with the organizational mission and vision, interdisciplinary collaboration for provision of quality care that is cost-effective, staff support, and patient satisfaction.
Nurse Educator
The nurse educator develops and utilizes nursing and health curricula for academic preparation of new nurses, staff development of current health professionals, and community education projects. Responsibilities include provision of quality educational experiences based on the mission of their employer, needs of the students, and the latest scientific evidence.
Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner (MSN-FNP)
Prepare to advance your nursing career and deliver comprehensive primary care to patients of all ages. SVSU’s Master of Science in Nursing – Family Nurse Practitioner program builds the advanced skills needed to assess, diagnose, and manage health across the lifespan. Through expert faculty mentorship and hands-on clinical experiences, you’ll gain the confidence to lead in community and healthcare settings while providing compassionate, evidence-based care that improves lives.
Dual Nurse Education / Nurse Administrator
The Dual Nurse Education / Nurse Administrator has diverse responsibilities in healthcare. They manage staffing, resources, and patient care while aligning programs with the organization's mission. They promote cost-effective, high-quality care through collaboration, support staff, and ensure patient satisfaction. Additionally, they develop nursing curricula and offer staff development, emphasizing quality education and evidence-based practices.
Industry Outlook
SVSU's MSN offers working adults a flexible solution for earning their degree from a highly ranked and nationally recognized program.
Average Job Growth*
13%
Average Salary Range*
$100K/year to $143K/year
Average Job Placement Rate for SVSU Graduates
90.9%
*Stats are approximations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor
Program Outcomes
- The graduate integrates, translates, and applies the knowledge of nursing practice as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences.
- The graduate leads in person-centered care that focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others.
- The graduate leads in population health that spans the healthcare delivery continuum for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
- The graduate leads in the generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.
- The graduate leads in quality and safety by employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science.
- The graduate leads in intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience and strengthen outcomes.
- The graduate leads in complex systems of health care to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
- The graduate leads in information and communication technologies and informatics processes to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision-making, and support professionals.
- The graduate advances a sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
- The graduate uses self-reflection in activities that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.
The master's degree program in nursing at Saginaw Valley State University is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://ccneaccreditation.org).
The Michigan State Board of Nursing of the Michigan Department of Consumer & Industry Services, Board of Nursing, P.O. Box 30193, Lansing, MI 48909, (517) 335-0918, approves the Nursing Program.
CONTACT US.
Graduate Admissions
Wickes Hall 230
gradadm@svsu.edu
(989) 964-6096
Tami Pobocik PhD, MSN, RN
Graduate Nursing Program Coordinator
tpobocik@svsu.edu
(989) 964-2893