Earn Your MSN in as Little as Eight Months
Take three courses per session so you can advance your skills faster.
Control Assignment Deadlines
You decide when to turn in assignments, giving you the flexibility you need to balance earning your degree with work.
Zero Tests
Demonstrate coursework mastery through assignments — not exams.
Personal Faculty Mentor
Partner with an experienced faculty mentor who directly supports you with your assignments, practicum experience and more.
Curriculum
Accelerated MSN Option
Gain tomorrow’s nursing skills today. Chamberlain’s Accelerated MSN Option offers two specializations—Advanced Nursing Leadership and Advanced Nursing Leadership With Artificial Intelligence (AI)—designed to give you the expertise to take your career further.
Personal Mentor
Partner with an experienced faculty mentor who directly supports you with your assignments, practicum experience, and your professional future.
Accelerated MSN Specializations
The accelerated MSN offers two specializations: Advanced Nursing Leadership With AI and Advanced Nursing Leadership.
Core MSN Courses Remain the Same
Because the Accelerated MSN Option has the same core courses, you can transfer into a different specialization—NP or non-clinical—without extra coursework.
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What You Will Learn
The Accelerated MSN Option features specializations in Advanced Nursing Leadership and Advanced Nursing Leadership With Artificial Intelligence (AI). Learn to apply a systems-based approach to a range of nursing leadership roles—and, if you choose the AI option, explore the responsible and ethical use of AI in complex care environments. Compassionate care is woven throughout our curriculum to ensure you graduate ready to make a difference in healthcare.
Gain Advanced Clinical Skills
Build a strong foundation in nursing science, clinical reasoning, and evidence-based practice. Learn how to apply research and quality improvement strategies to strengthen care and improve nursing practice.
Study Population Health
Learn to deliver holistic, compassionate care while advocating for the broader health needs of communities. Explore health promotion, epidemiology, and ways to reduce health disparities.
Explore Care Quality and Safety
Develop the skills to improve care quality and patient safety within healthcare systems. You’ll learn how systems, policy, and process improvement work together to support safer, more effective care.
Grow Your Leadership Impact
Develop as both a nursing professional and a leader. You’ll build ethical judgment, advocacy skills, and leadership knowledge relevant to nursing practice and professional development.
Engage in Active Learning
Courses combine clear instruction with interactive modules, case studies, and knowledge checks through assignments. Assignments include designing a value-based care initiative and leading a healthcare technology integration.
Explore Leadership in AI-Driven Settings
In the Advanced Nursing Leadership with AI specialization, you’ll discover how nurse leaders can help guide the use of AI in healthcare systems and use it responsibly to support safer, more personalized patient care.
Build Proficiency With Health Technology
Study how technology is used for patient care, data management, and decision support. Work directly with digital platforms, EHR, and informatics tools embedded in your coursework.
Drive Real Change in Your Practicum
During your practicum, you’ll identify a real problem in nursing practice and create a detailed action plan to address it. Build hands-on experience as well as confidence and professional judgment.
AI For Nursing Professionals
Chamberlain’s Google-backed AI courses prepare nurses in predictive analytics and clinical decision support. It's AI for nursing professionals, integrated into your degree program at no extra cost.
- Practicum readiness tools
- Streamlined site and preceptor contracting
- Dedicated Academic Support Advisors
Chamberlain 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.
To help prepare you for MSN 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.
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Find a right-fit practicum site with Chamberlain’s help.
Connect
Secure a practicum placement with a supportive preceptor.
Apply
Submit your request via MyChamberlain student portal.
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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 $6,610
DAISY Honoree Scholarship
Save 5% on tuition.
Military Rates
Special rates are reserved for members of our nation’s military community and their spouses.
Accreditation
Proudly Accredited
Chamberlain University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (www.hlcommission.org), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
The baccalaureate degree program in nursing, master’s degree program in nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice program, and post-graduate APRN certificate programs at Chamberlain University are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, (https://www.ccneaccreditation.org).
Degrees earned online are conferred from our main campus in Addison, Illinois.
Practicum options vary by state. Chamberlain may update information as needed. Check our authorizations and state approvals for details.
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.
Chamberlain Care®
Chamberlain University is committed to caring for our students every step of the way. By living Chamberlain Care, we prepare extraordinary healthcare professionals with the knowledge, skills, values, and beliefs needed not just to succeed—but to make a difference in today’s complex healthcare environment.
Registered Nurse
RNs provide and coordinate patient care and educate patients and their families about health conditions.
Nurse Educator
Instruct aspiring or current RNs in various areas of nursing in colleges, universities, or hospitals.
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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