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Program
Highlights
M.S.N.
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Popular program tracks:
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Family Nurse Practitioner
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Global Public Health Nursing
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Nurse Educator
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In-depth, professional,
advanced
practice
study for nurses
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Nursing care informed by
Christian
compassion
and Gospel mission
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Flexible
completion plan in five to eight
semesters
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Course work almost exclusively
online
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Graduates qualified to sit for
national
certification
exams
“The qualities I hope to emulate in
my practice— tireless compassion,
steadfast hope amidst discouraging
circumstances, and quality care to
families —were imprinted on me at
Cedarville.”
Marcia (Knaus) Williams ’94, M.S.N. ’13
Learn more and apply:
cedarville.edu/MSNMaster of Science in Nursing
Starting Locally, Thinking Globally
as a Public Health Nurse
by Heather Hall, M.S.N. ’15
Prior to starting graduate school, I looked
at many advanced public health nursing
programs and found Cedarville to be the only
school with a Master of Science in Nursing
(M.S.N.) with a focus on global public
health and a biblical emphasis on missions.
These would both be key for a future in
medical missions.
Class sizes were small. This facilitated
vital access to mentorship and personal
relationships with professors. I really wanted
to explore God’s plans for my career and
knew I would benefit from one-on-one
conversations with professors.
In my experience, Cedarville’s rigorous
academic standards
w e r e n o t o n l y
designed to equip
me with competitive
k n ow l e d g e a n d
skills, but to also
bring out the best in
me personally and
professionally, so
I would be able to
advance the Kingdom
in my everyday ministry and work. The
professors encouraged me constantly to think
outside the box, challengingme to understand
fully my beliefs and practices so I could
enter the working world with conviction
and a firm foundation. For example, Sharon
(Klopfenstein) Christman ’92 encouraged
us to develop our own biblical model of
practice so we would have a framework
specific to the context to which God was
calling us as we entered into a higher level of
nursing leadership.
The classes at Cedarville providedme with
a structure that made me feel I was getting a
broad and comprehensive exposure to the
specialty of global public health nursing,
but they also allowed me the creativity to
focus on specific areas of interest. From a
concept analysis paper on sustainability to a
thesis that explored the world of traditional
medicine in Africa, I was encouraged to use
my assignments in a way that built upon
knowledge gained in preceding classes and
demonstrated a theme reflective of the career
focus I desired.
My practicum experiences ranged from
participating in infection control at a local
hospital to facilitating a workshop on female
genital cutting in Kenya. Looking back, I can
honestly say that my graduate experience
at Cedarville completely lived up to my
expectations. I had the freedom to tailor my
experience to explore
God’s c a l l i ng on
my life.
Tod ay, a y e a r
a f t e r g r a du a t i ng
f rom Cedar v i l l e’s
M.S.N., I am in a job
that I love, working
i n t he U. S . wit h
tuberculosis patients
and with refugee and
immigrant populations in Dayton, Ohio, full
of vision for advancing the Kingdom overseas
in the near future.
Heather Hall, M.S.N. ’15
is a nurse at Miami Valley
Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. She plans to serve as a
full-time medical missionary to East Africa.
I found Cedarville to be the
only school with a Master
of Science in Nursing with
a focus on global public
heal th and a bibl ical
emphasis on missions.
Cedarville Magazine
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