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Nursing
Explore Marquette : Majors & Minors : Nursing : Nursing

WE GUARANTEE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
NURSE WITH CHILD PATIENT 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’ contribu-tions to patient care have never been more important — or necessary.
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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.

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 — even when your program includes a semester abroad or in Washington, D.C.

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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 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 Elective
Nursing Leadership
Synthesis Practicum

Literature/Performing Arts Elective
Theology Elective

THREE NURSES

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:

• Wheaton Health Care System
• Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
• Portsmouth Naval Medical Center (Virginia)
• Milwaukee Health Department
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
• Jesuit Volunteer Corps
• Walter Reed Army Medical Center
• Visiting Nurse Association

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