Nursing Business & Health Systems Programs

Nursing Business and Health Systems Master's

 

 

The program in Nursing Business and Health Systems is designed to prepare nurse leaders to address the pressing issues and challenges in contemporary and future complex health care systems. The curriculum integrates knowledge from the disciplines of nursing and business and provides students with opportunities to develop and apply innovative leadership concepts and techniques. Graduates from this program assume a wide variety of leadership and management positions, including nurse executives, nurse managers, case managers, project directorships, change agents, consultants, quality specialists, information specialists, patient safety officers, health care consultants and independent entrepreneurs to name a few. 

 

The web-based curriculum of the Nursing Business and Health Systems program allows students to work at their own pace and in their own environments. Interaction with the faculty and other students occurs online and during monthly campus visits. Due to its online nature, this program easily accommodates part-time working students as well as students living outside of the Ann Arbor/metro-Detroit area.

 

Students practice analyzing as well as have an internship at the end of the program.

 

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Michigan is one of the highest rated universities in the world, and the School of Nursing, as well as the Nursing Business and Health Systems program, consistently ranks among the top five in the country. A key component of this success is our faculty who each contribute to  the overall mission of the program.  Many of these experienced practitioners and educators are engaged in research, are active in the scholarly community, are committed to continuing a clinical practice, and are leaders in their various areas of interest. From preparing and/or executing educational training throughout the state of Michigan and consulting with healthcare organizations to practicing bedside patient care, our faculty are deeply and actively involved in the field of nursing while also training the next generation.

Within the Nursing Business and Health Systems program, there is ample opportunity for students to take control of their educational path and tailor its specifics to their unique interests and goals. Whether students see themselves as managers, consultants, informatics specialists, educators, patient safety specialists, or business owners, the skills and training honed in the program provide an optimal foundation for various professional careers. 

Nursing Business and Health Systems faculty are conducting research on numerous topics including  teamwork, capacity to rescue, change management, information technology in clinical practice, research methodology and statistics, link of nursing processes to improved patient outcomes, and Second Life virtual unit. Students are encouraged to and supported in doing their own research. For instance, based on proposals developed in N536, many students have gone on to actually enact the research and write their findings.

The University of Michigan School of Nursing Nursing Business and Health Systems Program uses the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies as a basis for the curriculum and as a professional standard for evaluating core courses, selective courses and tracks.  The AONE Nurse Executive Competencies focus on five overlapping domains.  AONE believes that leaders at all levels must be competent in:

Nursing Business and Health Systems faculty mapped the nursing systems core courses and selective courses against the AONE competency set.  The educational tract was developed using an additional set of competencies, Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing, Nurse Educator Competencies, serving as another example of the ways in which the Nursing Business and Health Systems curriculum is shaped to be in alignment with relevant professional standards.

Nursing Business and Health Systems graduates are in demand. The Nursing Business and Health Systems Program addresses a business and market need for competent and innovative nursing leaders, in clinical practice as well as nursing management and health care operations in all nursing care settings. This growing need for nursing leadership and staff within the health care and educational settings provides a reference point against which our students and our faculty work to continually adapt methods and materials to the changing professional landscape resulting in our students' competitive advantage in the workplace upon graduation.

 

In addition to great demand for our graduates, a degree in Nursing Business and Health Systems is multiply applicable and so provides for various opportunities throughout a career. Graduates  assume a wide variety of leadership and management positions, including nurse executive, nurse manager, CEO, case manager, project director, change manager, consultant, quality specialist, information system specialist, educator, patient safety officer, risk manager, independent entrepreneurs and many others.

Listed below is the basic plan of study and required courses for the Nursing Business and Health Systems Programs. The School of Nursing is committed to working with students to help them balance the demands of graduate education with their other personal and professional commitments.  As such, students can select from full-time and part-time program plans.