This program consists of three academic  courses totaling 10 semester hours, concentrating on the skills needed to become a nurse manager, and are offered in an online format.  These credits can be applied to an MSN in Nursing and Health Systems Leadership if a student decides to continue with graduate education. 

The courses are not self-paced; there are weekly assignments, due dates throughout the semester for papers and projects, and the courses will finish at the normal end of each semester.  Students should plan to spend approximately 4 hours per week per credit hour on their readings, learning exercises, team projects, class discussion and library work.  Therefore, for a 3 credit hour course, the student should budget 12 hours per week for work on the course.

Objectives

• Apply sound budgeting strategies to the management and control of departments.
• Synthesize organizational theories and principles of human resource management that incorporate caring attributes, to improve and promote quality nursing care.
• Identify and analyze significant issues between clinical nursing practice and health care administration to provide leadership in the resolution of conflicts or perceived conflicts between business practices and quality health care outcomes.
• Demonstrate creativity and critical thinking in the resolution of business problems.
• Demonstrate the ability to share a vision for spiritually sensitive and culturally aware change strategies and take calculated risks for the enhancement of quality health care delivery systems.

Curriculum

NUGR 568	Leadership and Management	4 credit hours
NUGR 571	Budgeting in Healthcare Organizations	3 credit hours
NUGR 573	Operations Management in Healthcare	3 credit hours

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