MSN Nurse Executive Track

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.