MBA & MS in Nursing: Nursing Leadership in Health Care Systems

• Accounting Practices
  
  This course is designed for individuals who are preparing for more advanced course work in accounting and is designed for students who have not had accounting in undergraduate work. Topics covered include the principles and practices of financial accounting and the fundamentals of managerial accounting, such as cost behavior and budgeting.
  
  
• Applied Business Probability and Statistics
  
  The purpose of this course is to prepare students in mathematical, probability, and statistical concepts for their upcoming studies in quantitative methods.
  
  
• Finance Principles
  
  This course is designed for individuals who are preparing for more advanced course work in accounting and is designed for students who have not had finance in undergraduate work.
  
  
• Managerial Communications
  
  The course covers communication strategy and analysis, managerial presentations, writing, effective meeting management, cross-cultural communication, and the core areas of the modern corporate communication function.
  
  
• Managerial Economics
  
  Covers demand and cost estimation, production decisions, pricing, analysis at competitive market structures, and anti-trust.
  
  
• Organizational Behavior
  
  The course covers individual behavior, how the individual and the organization interact, and processes relating to the organization itself.
  
  
• Quantitative Methods
  
  A study in the quantitative tools and techniques used to model business functions and applications. Emphasis is given in how to set up models, as well as how to interpret and apply their results.
  
  
• Managerial Accounting
  
  Managerial accounting concepts and procedures for internal reporting. Includes study of cost behavior, cost systems, budgeting, and performance evaluation. Coursework includes case studies, group presentations, and class discussion.
  
  
• Marketing Management
  
  Managing the marketing function, market environmental analysis, and marketing planning, strategy, and control are fundamentals of marketing management. The course examines the marketing process, marketing research, product development innovation and diffusion, pricing strategy, distribution value drain, advertising and promotion, and strategic marketing issues.
  
  
• Organizational Ethics
  
  Emphasis is placed on the way ethics affect policy formation and professional conduct in business and society. Coursework includes case studies of ethical situations, internet research, a team project, oral reports, and class discussion.
  
  
• Managerial Finance
  
  Discusses elements of business financial decisions, including financial forecasting and development of pro-formas, management of working capital, capital budgeting, capital structure, and raising funds in capital markets.
  
  
• Information Systems
  
  A study of what information is and systems are, separately and together, as applied to business environments. The course starts from a very broad view, narrows to computer and enterprise environments, and then finishes with applied group and individual projects.
  
  
• Strategic Management
  
  A study of the formulation of strategy and policy in the organization, emphasizing the integration of strategic decisions across the functional areas and across multiple business units.
  
  
• Organizational Ethics
  
  Emphasis is placed on the way ethics affect policy formation and professional conduct in business and society. Coursework includes case studies of ethical situations, internet research, a team project, oral reports, and class discussion.
  
  
• Organizational Systems and Cultures
  
  This course will equip students to fully understand the complexities of organizational systems and cultures, the ways in which these forces manifest themselves, and the means by which leaders intentionally impact the shape that these forces take in their organizations.
  
  
• Leadership Styles and Development
  
  An exploration of the nature of business leadership models and theories, examining these models through a broad variety of insights and viewpoints.
  
  
• Organizational Development and Change
  
  An exploration of the behavioral forces and relationships that influence organizational effectiveness and change. Topics include the study of intervention strategy and application skills.
  
  
• Advanced Nursing Issues and Roles
  
  This course explores the College of Nursing philosophy and relates it to the expanded practice of the advanced professional nurse. The focus of the course is scope of practice, role behavior, and depth and breadth of knowledge in selected areas of advanced practice, nursing education, and nursing leadership for various types of health care systems.
  
  
• Healthcare Policy and Finance Issues
  
  This course integrates the process of health care policy development with a critical focus on the organizational and financial aspects of health care delivery systems including managed care systems, Medicare and Medicaid issues, and continuous quality improvement (CQI).
  
  
• Advanced Nursing Theory
  
  This course focuses on the critical evaluation and utilization of the theoretical foundations of nursing as well as pertinent theoretical concepts form related fields of study such as the social and biological sciences, educational, organizational, and leadership theory.
  
  
• Healthcare Research Analysis and Utilization
  
  This course focuses on the critical analysis of health care and nursing research with a focus on the utilization of evidence-based research as foundation of client care and development of client services.
  
  
• Evidence-based Practice Project
  
  Students will identify a problem focus, propose a research-based solution, search for evidence using the evidence-based databases that support their solutions, and develop implementation, evaluation, and dissemination plans.
  
  
• Diversity Management and Leadership
  
  Students will demonstrate the capacity to value the talents and skills of a diverse workforce with respect to gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability, and lifestyle. Students will master leadership skills based on a comprehension that leading and managing diversity is a process of constructing a work place that is inclusive and allows all employees to reach their full work potential.