MS in Nursing: Nursing Leadership in Health Care Systems

• Advanced Nursing Issues and Roles
  
  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
• Advanced Nursing Theory
  
  This course focuses on the critical evaluation and utilization of the theoretical foundations of nursing as well as pertinent theoretical concepts.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Introduction to Organizational Leadership
  
  Students will develop an advanced skill-set enabling effective leadership of each of the major organizational functions. Students will understand the difference between transformational and transactional leadership and how both are critical to effective leadership.
• 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 Ethics
  
  The role of ethics in the organization. Emphasis is placed on the way ethics affect policy formation and professional conduct in business and society.
  
  
• Evidence-based Practice Project
  
  This course provides an opportunity to prepare an evidence-based practice (EBP). Students will focus on developing an EBP project that is appropriate for their educational track: nursing leadership, adult clinical nurse specialist, nursing education, or family nurse practitioner.
  
  
• 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.