Mar 29, 2024  
2019 Graduate Catalog 1.2 (SUMMER - FALL) 
    
2019 Graduate Catalog 1.2 (SUMMER - FALL) [ARCHIVED CATALOG - Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Nursing Leadership (M.S.)


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The Masters of Science in Nursing Leadership prepares nurses to assume leadership positions across all levels of healthcare and in diverse healthcare settings.

Nursing Leadership Program Goals

1. Integrate the scientific findings in nursing with the related sciences needed to fully analyze, design, implement, and evaluate nursing care.

2. Execute leadership by initiating, maintaining, and demonstrating skills in care coordination, delegation, and initiating conflict resolution strategies.

 3. Promote safe, high quality care through the ability to monitor, analyze, and prioritize outcomes that need to be improved for individuals, families, communities and clinical populations.

4. Use critical reflection to translate evidence and integrate scholarship into advanced nursing practice. 5. Incorporate current technologies to deliver and coordinate care across multiple settings.

6. Apply requisite knowledge and skills to promote health, help shape the health delivery system, and advance values like social justice through policy processes and advocacy.

7. Actively communicate, collaborate, and consult with other health professionals to manage and coordinate care across systems.

8. Design and ensure the delivery of clinical prevention interventions and population-based care that promotes health, reduces the risk of chronic illness, and prevents disease.

9. Facilitate commitment to a culture of nursing excellence through lifelong personal and professional development.

10. Function within a collaborative and interprofessional environment to improve the quality and safety of patient care.

11. Demonstrate the knowledge to effectively manage the fiscal, human, and physical resources in a healthcare setting.

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