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100% Online Coursework With a Practicum Component
With 100% online coursework plus a practicum component, you’ll have the flexibility you need and faculty who provide individualized support.
Dedicated Practicum Support
Chamberlain’s Practicum Commitment® is designed to ensure that you receive the essential practicum experiences needed on your path to completing your degree.
Flexibility for Working Nurses
In our non-clinical specializations, there are no tests—and assignment deadlines flex to fit your schedule. Receive a three-day grace period after major due dates.
Healthcare Leadership Skills
Learn to be a nurse leader from a 100% doctorally trained faculty who have served as CNOs, deans, hospital managers and more.
Why More Nurses Choose Chamberlain
Lead the future of nursing with an MSN built for working RNs. Designed by nurses, for nurses, our program features 100% online coursework with a practicum, as well as dedicated practicum support.
Tailor Your Practicum
Specialize in the clinical or academic setting you're passionate about during your practicum experience.
Dedicated Practicum Support
Chamberlain’s Practicum Commitment® helps ensure you successfully secure any needed practicum site and/or preceptor to complete your degree.
Chamberlain Care®
Chamberlain nurtures a culture of care. Faculty support students throughout their academic journey, teaching them what they need to know to succeed.
Curriculum
Master Healthcare Leadership & Nurse Administrator Skills
Chamberlain’s MSN Nurse Executive curriculum blends academic rigor with real-world application—featuring a 144-hour practicum, 1:1 mentoring, and leadership projects designed to help you build executive-level skills and grow your professional network.
Practicum
In this 144-hour practicum, you’ll partner 1:1 with your practicum site mentor and interdisciplinary teams to identify a senior leadership project that fits your interests.
Zero Tests
Demonstrate coursework mastery through assignments—not exams.
Expand Your Network
Build relationships with professionals in the healthcare community while completing your practicum project.
#1 in MSN Enrollments in the U.S.—Join the Nation’s Largest Network of MSN-Prepared Nurses
What You Will Learn
Chamberlain’s MSN Nurse Executive specialization prepares you to connect leadership decisions with frontline patient care. You’ll build the insights, leadership skills, and confidence to influence your organization and support higher standards of patient care. Our patient-centric curriculum prepares you to champion compassionate care throughout your healthcare organization and community.
Develop as a Leader
Build leadership skills grounded in organizational theory and systems thinking. Learn how to guide teams, influence workplace culture, and lead change in complex healthcare environments.
Gain Operational Insights
Develop practical skills in healthcare operations and budgeting. Discover how planning, resource allocation, and financial decisions support efficient operations and high-quality patient care.
Build Your Emotional Intelligence
Strengthen your ability to manage people and create high-performing teams. Explore workforce planning, communication, and leadership strategies that support engagement and retention.
Focus on Nursing Quality and Safety
Learn how nurse leaders use evolving standards and best practices to support safe, high-quality patient care, meet regulatory requirements, and keep healthcare organizations running smoothly.
Engage in Immersive Learning Activities
Develop practical skills with leadership case studies and simulations, team-building exercises, and scenario-based learning. Along the way, you’ll take part in group projects, reflect on your growth, and build an ePortfolio.
Drive Real Change in Your Practicum
During a 144-hour practicum, you’ll work with a healthcare leader to identify an organizational leadership or quality improvement project. You’ll then learn how to effectively lead a team or organization through a project management process.
Complement Your Nursing Leadership Expertise With Targeted AI Training
Chamberlain, in partnership with Google Cloud, offers an AI certificate tailored for nurse leaders. Learn to use AI tools to support workforce planning, acuity forecasting, and quality improvement. The certificate, valued at $749, is included in your degree program at no extra cost.
MSN Core Courses
Chamberlain's CCN-accredited online MSN program is designed to help you build on your nursing experience.
- Practicum readiness tools
- Streamlined site and preceptor contracting
- Dedicated Advising & Retention Specialists
Practicum Commitment®
Dedicated support when you need it most
The Practicum Commitment is designed to ensure that you receive the essential practicum experiences needed on your path to completing your MSN Nurse Executive.
To help prepare you for MSN Nurse Executive practicum courses, you will be paired with our Experiential Learning Team who will provide resources throughout the process, including coaching sessions and tips on how to approach a potential site.
Search
Chamberlain helps you find the practicum site for you.
Connect
Secure a practicum placement with a supportive preceptor.
Apply
Submit your request via MyChamberlain student portal.
- 135+ years of empowering healthcare professionals
- 12,000+ partner locations
- Community of more than 185,000 students, faculty and alumni
Did you know? Most of Chamberlain’s scholarship and grants require no applications. An Enrollment Representative will automatically determine your eligibility.
Commitment to Completion Grant
Save Up to $7,300
Daisy Honoree Scholarship
Save 5% on tuition
Covista Foundation Scholarship Program
To learn more or apply, Covista Foundation Scholarship Program scholarships.
The DAISY Foundation
As The DAISY Foundation’s Founding Educational Partner, Chamberlain is proud to be the No. 1 awarder of student and faculty DAISY Awards, supporting nurses with scholarships, research opportunities, and career development.
National League for Nursing
Chamberlain University College of Nursing was named a Center of Excellence™ in Nursing Education by the National League for Nursing for promoting the pedagogical expertise of faculty.
MSN Career Outlook
‘The Wall Street Journal’ Reports: Nursing Is One of America’s Strongest Career Paths
Nurse practitioners and other advanced practice nurses can earn
competitive wages and enjoy greater autonomy. Employment in advanced
nursing roles is projected to grow 35% through 2034, compared to just 3% for the overall U.S. workforce. As the population ages, that demand will only grow. A recent WSJ article puts into words exactly why nursing—and why now
Medical and Health Services Manager
Plan, direct, and coordinate medical and health services.
Expected growth: 29%
Job titles: Nurse manager, nursing director, clinical director
Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics OOH data as of June 2025, Job Outlook | O*Net, Reported Job Titles
Nurse Educator
Instruct aspiring or current RNs in various areas of nursing in colleges, universities, or hospitals.
Expected growth: 18%
Job titles: Associate professor, clinical nursing instructor, faculty member, nurse educator, nursing instructor, nursing professor
Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics OOH data as of June 2025, Job Outlook | O*Net, Reported Job Titles
No guarantee is made that a person who enrolls in the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program will obtain a job. Career options may require additional experience, training, or other factors beyond the successful completion of this degree program.
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