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Mentoring Undergraduate Students for Excellence in Scholarship (MUSES)

The Mentoring Undergraduate Students for Excellence in Scholarship (MUSES) Program's mission is to promote the intellectual, professional, and personal development of undergraduate students by providing scholarly guidance in a specific area of nursing that aligns with their scholarly interests, thereby challenging them to reach their fullest potential.

The MUSES Program accomplishes this mission by mentoring the students to:

  • discover new knowledge and original insights that add to nursing's body of knowledge,
  • apply existing knowledge to the practical solutions to problems,
  • integrate existing knowledge in nursing with that of other disciplines and,
  • develop new and improved means for describing, understanding, and presenting existing knowledge to increase dissemination.

 

The MUSES Program students work closely with an identified MUSES Faculty Mentor (MFM) to develop and implement research. In addition to the outcomes of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans (LSUHSC-NO) School of Nursing, the MUSES Program will:

  • Develop supportive and encouraging relationships between faculty and students,
  • Guide undergraduate nursing students in their professional, personal, and interpersonal growth,
  • Communicate information concerning expectations, learning opportunities, and stressors
  • Prepare undergraduate nursing students to seek graduate education,
  • Promote the development of leadership qualities, and
  • Develop undergraduate nursing students' scholarship abilities.

 

Eligibility requirements for students include:

  1. Achievement of a cumulative GPA of 3.5 in all LSUHSC-NO School of Nursing coursework, after completion of Junior II (Traditional BSN) or Block II (CARE) semesters, with no grade less than a "B" in any course.
  2. Submission of a completed MUSES Program application.
  3. Submission of a 250-word goal statement related to a research topic of interest to be conducted as part of their MUSES experience.
  4. Submission of two letters of recommendation from LSUHSC-NO-SON Faculty.

 

  • Eligible Junior II students will apply to the MUSES Program in May and December of each year.
  • Senior I students will take MUSES I (NURS 3470: BSN Honors Seminar I)
  • Senior II students will take MUSES II (NURS 3471: BSN Honors Seminar II)

 

Here’s the link for the MUSES Program Application

 

If interested in applying for the MUSES Program, please contact:

Jennifer Martin, DNP, CRNA; jmar19@lsuhsc.edu
Marie Adorno, PhD, APRN, CNS, RNC; madorn@lsuhsc.edu
Stefany Primeaux, PhD; sprime@lsuhsc.edu