Online MSN - Nursing Executive Leadership

In this course, the student focuses on leadership and management of healthcare organizations, emphasizing organizational structure, processes and outcomes. 

In this course, the student 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 standards. 

In this course, the student examines 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. 

The purpose of this course is to discuss utilizing a systems-theory approach in providing patient-centered and value-added care. Functioning within a system, the individual healthcare practitioner learns to utilize critical thinking and decision making to coordinate and deliver quality and cost-effective patient care. The content serves to develop an understanding of different modes of organizing nursing care within the unit environment, managing care within a multidisciplinary-team framework and promoting effective teamwork that enhances patient outcomes, improves staff vitality and reduces costs. Emphasis is placed on concepts related to systems theory, problem solving and decision making, nursing-care delivery models, delegation and team strategies. 

In this course, the student begins an intensive experience in critical analysis, designed to broaden perspectives and support the integration of knowledge gained throughout the curriculum. In collaboration with a nurse-leader mentor, the student demonstrates application of leadership and management theories and concepts and essential competencies in the role of nurse executive in an academic or clinical practice setting, where the student develops and implements evidence-based leadership and management strategies. The student begins a scholarly project involving critical analysis of an issue relevant to professional nursing in leadership. The student is introduced to the planning phase of project management and develops tools to assist them in planning to lead an organizational practice change project. 

In this course, the student continues their intensive experience in critical analysis, designed to broaden perspectives and support the integration of knowledge gained throughout the curriculum. In continued collaboration with a nurse-leader mentor, the student demonstrates application of leadership and management theories and concepts and essential competencies in the role of nurse executive in a variety of practice settings. The student moves their project from the planning phase begun in NR-631 to the phases of execution and evaluation in this course. The student also expands and broadens their understanding of several key nursing roles as they apply to senior leadership positions in organizations.