Discover the Belmont Abbey MSN Degree. The American healthcare system has become a hotly contested battleground over basic issues of human dignity, identity, and value. True human flourishing no longer governs the industry, and ideological agendas often muddy both popular and professional understandings of human welfare. Disconnected from Truth, society accepts the dehumanizing visions of transgenderism, abortion, and assisted suicide, which claim the power to redefine sex, human value, and even life itself.  In such a critical and ethically fraught space, nurses, doctors, and healthcare administrators require not only the highest standard of technical training but also the ethical resources to navigate their field. Nearly all Americans depend on critical health services, either for themselves or for a loved one, at some point in their lives, and the ethical dilemmas daily facing our medical professionals directly impact the care we receive during these most vulnerable moments.  Only care governed by an authentic awareness of the whole person can restore Nursing to the full exercise of its healing vocation. When we fail to recognize the human person as a whole and distinct self – created by God in body, mind, and soul – we risk accepting falsehoods that lead at best to confusion and anxiety, at worst to loss of human life and agency. This is why Belmont Abbey’s MSN Program unites rigorous medical science with essential values that return the good of the human person to the very heart of healthcare. Dr. Lee-Ann Kenny, Chair and Program Director, identifies the ten Benedictine Hallmarks as the guiding principles not only of Abbey Nursing but also of the nursing vocation itself, in faithfulness to its Christian roots. “By definition,” she reflects, “nursing as a profession incorporates the hallmarks, day in and day out, regardless of one’s own spiritual beliefs.” Professor Emily Nishiyama...