Nursing Management and Quality Leadership (MS), 1-year (Online, On Campus)

This course will present a critique of theories used in nursing practice and in nursing research. Students will develop an understanding of the philosophical and historical trends that shape theories that are applied to the discipline of nursing and impact the delivery of health care services. Emphasis is placed on the process of concept analysis and the application of theory to nursing practice. Prerequisite/Co-requisite: undergraduate statistics course and student must be enrolled in a graduate program or have the permission of the instructor.

Prerequisites: None

This course will provide the foundational knowledge needed by masters' prepared nurses in order to design and evaluate research methodologies used for investigating clinical problems. The components of research design including settings, sampling frames, instrumentation, subject selection, and validity threats will be presented. Computer programs used for statistical analyses in nursing and health-related research will be reviewed. Emphasis is placed on the masters prepared nurse as a producer and consumer of research. Prerequisite/Co-requisite: undergraduate statistics course and student must be enrolled in a graduate program or have the permission of the instructor.

Prerequisites: None

Critical discussion of current nursing practice,nursing education or nursing administration challenges or other needs of the profession,as related to gaps representing project opportunities. Students will identify and delineate a project concept,with subsequent development of the project.

Prerequisites: NUR-600 NUR-601

Today's climate demands nursing leaders to be flexible, creative, and able to empower others. Strategies are drawn from both leadership and management theories. Nurses lead and manage nursing care for a variety of populations. Internal and external communication continues to be one of the most important challenges for healthcare leaders. This course will discuss the changed role of a nurse leader, general administration and management, decision-making, entrepreneurship, cost-effective, communication and committed care.
Offered in: Fall and Spring
Prerequisites: None

Today's healthcare organizations are challenging. Throughout this course the students will be reviewing financial issues, financial problems, and financial methods that exist in various health care settings. The course will review delivery of care, labor relations, personnel management, including budgets; audits and fiscal responsibility.

Prerequisites: None

This course provides the opportunity for the clinical application of theories and principles from classroom learning in the area of nursing leadership. There is a requirement of 180 hours of fieldwork under the supervision of a qualified preceptor and faculty.

Prerequisites: NUR-613 NUR-614

Healthcare quality has been shown to be a very powerful tool to assist healthcare organizations to be more effective but also to support the safe delivery of services while improbing patient outcomes. This course will focus on the healthcare quality and safety standards applied to both inpatient and outpatient settings across health care organizations. Healthcare quality and safety standards impact patient outcomes and often financial reimbursement.
Offered in: Fall and Spring
Prerequisites: None

Health care continues to evolve in an increasingly competitive information market. Nursing Informatics is a combination of information from nursing, concepts from computer sciences, cognitive science, information science, and mursing science. This course focuses on nursing informatics and the foundation of the knowledge model.
Offered in: Spring Only
Prerequisites: None

This course provides continuing systematic development of a clinically-based project that addresses a problem important to nursing. The problem may be related to health policy,health education,health administration,community-based initiatives or patient-population problems. During this course,the student will meet with their project director to complete the design,and implement and evaluate his or her project according to School of Nursing guidelines.

Prerequisites: NUR-610

Today's climate demands nursing leaders to be flexible, creative and able to empower others. Strategies are drawn from both leadership and management theories. Nurses lead and manage nursing care for a variety of populations. Internal and external communication continues to be one of the most important challenges for healthcare leaders. This course will discuss the changed role of a nurse leader, general administration and management, decision-making, entrepreneurship, cost-effective communication and committed care.

Prerequisites: NUR-613

The healthcare environment is changing every day and it is influenced by technological, economic, political, and socio cultural factors locally and globally. Health care in the United States encompasses a wide spectrum, ranging from the highest-quality, most compassionate treatment of those with complex illnesses to poor outcomes for those unable to understand, afford and navigate the complexities of care networks. Nurse leaders have the knowledge and skills to promote health and advance values like social justice through policy processes and advocacy.

Prerequisites: NUR-613

This course will introduce students to the impact that health systems, political agendas, economic policies, environmental regulations and regulatory mandates have on individual measures of health. Students will use publicly available databases and tools to investigate specific health outcomes such as the leading causes of death,disability and the burden of chronic disease. International travel, global warming, the impact of infectious disease and how immigration policies impact the health of Americans will be determined.

Prerequisites: None