Top,left photo: The GSN students take part in a suturing laboratory. Top, right photo: A GSN student cares for a wounded 'patient' under the watchful eye of a faculty member.

Signature Curriculum

The Graduate School of Nursing has a unique charge - to prepare advanced practice nurses, clinicians, scientists and scholars for the challenges of military and public health medicine. In order to fulfill the School's lofty responsibilities, faculty members utilize a signature curriculum when educating tomorrow's health care leaders. Whether pursuing a master's degree or a PhD, a major part of the GSN experience encompasses three focus areas that distinguishes the GSN's curriculum from other schools of nursing. These include:

  • Operational Readiness in Changing Environments
  • Clinical Decision Making in the Federal Health Care Delivery System
  • Global, Environmental, Cultural and Political Context

These benchmarks are woven throughout every program within the School, and they include the following study threads:

  • Evidenced-Based Practice and Research
  • Leadership and Health Policy
  • Transition of Technology to Practice and Education
  • Health Promotion for Warriors and Families
  • Patient Safety





















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Spotlight

Kudos for the 2009 AORN Journal Writers Contest Award

GSN Masters students Major Stacey S. Freeman and Major Gregory L. Lara and faculty members COL (retired) Linda J. Wanzer, MSN and CAPT (retired) Sandra C. Garmon Bibb, DNSc won the Research Writing contest sponsored by AORN for their article entitled "An Evidence-Based Process for Evaluating Infection Control Policies" published in the AORN Journal. They kindly donated their $ 400 monetary award to the Support Fund for the USU Graduate School of Nursing.