{"id":68844,"date":"2016-01-19T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=68844"},"modified":"2020-02-03T08:12:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:12:12","slug":"online-masters-program-in-nursing-excels-nationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/01\/online-masters-program-in-nursing-excels-nationally\/","title":{"rendered":"Online masters program in nursing excels nationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University\u2019s Robert E. Smith School of Nursing once again received high praise at the national level. RESSON was recently recognized in U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s ranking of \u201cBest Online Graduate Nursing Programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RESSON came in at No. 42 on the list of 1,200 schools, putting the program in the top four percent nationally. The school received high marks for faculty credentials and training, as well as high levels of student engagement.<\/p>\n<p>To establish the rankings, U.S. News &amp; World Report examined five categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Student engagement<\/li>\n<li>Faculty credentials and training<\/li>\n<li>Peer reputation<\/li>\n<li>Student services and technology<\/li>\n<li>Admissions selectivity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This new ranking represented the \u201cbest of the best\u201d in online nursing graduate programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe offer a high quality Masters of Nursing program with a 100 percent certification rate at a very reasonable cost,\u201d said Dr. Lizabeth Carlson, dean of RESSON. \u201cWe have been offering online advanced nursing education since the early 2000s. We have worked diligently to ensure we incorporate national and state accreditation standards into our curriculum and utilize best practices in online learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson said the dedicated RESSON faculty helped make the ranking a reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great honor and reflects the hard work and long hours the nursing faculty have put into ensuring this program is of the very best quality,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full rankings at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/online-education\/nursing\/rankings\">http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/online-education\/nursing\/rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about RESSON at Delta State University at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/school-of-nursing\/\">https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/school-of-nursing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University\u2019s Robert E. Smith School of Nursing once again received high praise at the national level. RESSON was recently recognized in U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s ranking of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":85752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,55],"tags":[1476,391,293,1477],"class_list":["post-68844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-school-of-nursing","tag-ranking","tag-resson","tag-robert-e-smith-school-of-nursing","tag-u-s-news-world-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85751,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68844\/revisions\/85751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}