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The program in Nursing Business and Health Systems is designed to prepare nurse leaders to address the pressing issues and challenges in today’s complex healthcare systems and in the future.

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.

Job Opportunities
Graduates from this program assume a wide variety of leadership and management positions, including nurse executive, nurse manager, CEO, case management, project directors, change managers, consultants, quality specialists, information specialist, healthcare consultants and independent entrepreneurs.

Recent graduates are employed in acute care hospitals, managed care companies, acute care organizations, home health care agencies, integrated delivery systems, consulting firms and in their own businesses.

Program of Study
The web-based curriculum allows students to work at their own pace and in their own environments. Interaction with the faculty and other students will occur on-line and during monthly campus visits.

The curriculum design easily accommodates the part-time working student as well as students located in diverse locations.

We also offer the following dual degree and Certificate Programs:

Contact us for further information on available degrees.

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The Curriculum
SN Master's Core
N532 Theoretical Base for Advanced Nursing Practice 3cr.
N535 Strategy for Nursing and Health Care 3cr.
N536 Utilization of Nursing Research in Advanced Practice 2cr.
N603 Data Management 2cr.
N699 Project 2cr.
Nursing Business and Health Systems Core
N556 Human Resources 3cr.
N651 Quality and Operations Management 4cr.
N657 Innovation and Change 3cr.
N659 Organizational Assessment 4cr.
N655 Health Care Accounting and Finance 4cr.
Systems Selective (select one of the following)
N634 Advanced Nursing Management 3cr.
N654 Nursing Informatics 3cr.
N662 Nursing Entrepreneurship 3cr.
N664 Nursing & Health Policy 3cr.
N636 Quality/Patient Safety 3cr.
N672 Strategies for Teaching in Nursing 3cr.
Cognates
Select course in concentration area 3cr.
Internship
N653 Nursing Business and Health Systems Internship 3cr.
PROGRAM TOTAL 39cr.
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