Joyce S. Fontana, Ph.D.
"Nursing education has the potential to change health care. Teaching gives me more influence to affect change, to change health care for the better. Education is liberating. It can change the way we see our reality."
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Nursing Graduate Program
Graduate ProgramThe Master's Program in Nursing at Saint Joseph College with its strong humanistic and clinical focus was first offered in 1985. The first class of Psychiatric/Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialists graduated in 1988. Subsequently, two programs have been added: Family Nurse Practitioner and, most recently, Nurse Educator. Additionally, in keeping with professional changes, the Psychiatric/Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist program has evolved to be a nurse practitioner program.
With a philosophy based on caring, the Master's program has retained its humanities and clinical orientation and includes a high level of scholarship when most other nursing Master's programs have followed the current curricular trend that emphasizes the biomedical and technological aspects of nursing. Graduates from the Master's program emerge as independent practitioners with a greatly expanded understanding of the world of patients and their families.
The Director of the Graduate Nursing Program is Pamela Aselton, Ph.D., APRN-BC.
Students who enter the Master's Program in Advanced Nursing must be Registered Nurses with baccalaureate degrees in nursing. Candidates apply to the program to prepare as Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Practitioners, Family Nurse Practitioners or Nurse Educators. Students complete several core courses and then design their plan of study according to their specialty and personal interests. (Application for matriculation is described in the graduate catalog.
There are postmasters certificate options for nurses with a M.S. degree who wish further preparation in one of our specialties.
Nursing Faculty
Family Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Post Master's Certificate in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Read about Julie Sacharko, M.S.N. '11, CCM, FNP-BC, who earned her graduate degree in Nursing at Saint Joseph College.
For more information contact:
Pamela Aselton, Ph.D, FNP
Graduate Program Director, Department of Nursing
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Family Nurse Practitioner
Office: McDonough Hall 215
Phone: 860.231.5352
paselton@sjc.edu
Apply today! www.sjc.edu/graduate
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Courtney Burns '11"SJC has given me the faith to believe in myself, the hope that I will succeed as a leader, and the love and compassion to become a nurse."
