MSN Nurse Executive at a Glance
MSN Nurse Executive Track Courses
With an interdisciplinary viewpoint, explore personal and strategic leadership components for diverse healthcare settings to promote positive healthcare outcomes through advanced evidence based collaborative practice. The course emphasizes leadership concepts including communication, ethics, negotiation, advocacy and a caring person-centered practice environment. Information related to living leadership within teams, systems, communities and professional organizations are discussed. With the use of active learning, students will be able to practice problem solving and change techniques in selected leadership scenarios to foster a caring person-centered practice environment.
This course focuses on leadership and management of healthcare organizations, emphasizing organizational structure, processes and outcome.
This course focuses on synthesizing organizational and management theories in relation to strategic planning and management, changing care-delivery systems, human and financial resource management, decision making, professional practice, management-information systems and meeting accreditation and legal standard.
Examine the concepts and issues in budget formulation, decision making, variance analysis, financing in healthcare, models for forecasting, addressing throughput issues, implementing professional practice models and program planning. The emphasis is on practical methods and techniques within a wide variety of healthcare situations.
This course focuses on a systems theory approach in providing patient-centered and value-added care and critical thinking and decision making to coordinate and deliver quality and cost-effective patient care. Examine different modes of organizing nursing care, managing care within a multidisciplinary-team framework and promoting effective teamwork.
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If your CGPA falls below our requirements - in the range of 2.5 to 2.99 - you may still be considered for provisional acceptance into the online MSN Nursing Informatics program.
How to Enroll
MSN Nurse Executive Track Admission Requirements
For your MSN Nurse Executive Specialty Track nursing application, you should have:
- A degree in nursing at the bachelor’s level or higher from an accredited institution
- A minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
- Current, active and unrestricted RN license in the U.S. or in a jurisdiction that is an associate member of the NCSBN
Can I transfer credits into the MSN Nurse Executive Specialty Track?
General guidelines for transfer credits include:
- A maximum of six semester hours may be accepted towards your MSN degree
- Core coursework must have been completed within the past 7 years for transfer; specialty coursework with the past 5 years
- A grade of ‘B’ or higher is required for transfer credits
- For the NP specialty tracks, transfer credits will only be accepted for core courses
Our admissions team can get you started on a transcript evaluation so you’ll know exactly what will transfer in before making your enrollment decision.
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Are you looking for an accredited MSN degree program?
Chamberlain University accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), www.hlcommission.com an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Chamberlain University confers online degrees from its Main Campus in Addison, IL.
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