Master of Science in Nursing and Health Systems Administration

The University of Indianapolis Graduate Nursing Program offers a Master of Science in Nursing, with a focus on nursing and health systems administration, to provide professionals who have a BSN the opportunity to gain the management skills necessary to assume leadership roles in today’s complex health care organizations. This 43-credit-hour program may be completed on a full- or part-time basis.

Educational Objectives

The Nursing and Health Systems Administration Track will prepare the graduates to:

• Practice with competence in an advanced nursing role in a variety of settings
   
• Analyze trends in health care and health care administration and make a commitment to best business management practices that improve the health of our citizens
   
• Synthesize leadership theories and principles of human resource management that incorporates caring attributes to improve and promote nursing care in a variety of environments
   
• Identify and analyze significant issues including the value of comportment between clinical nursing practice and health care administration and provide leadership in the pragmatic resolution of conflicts
   
• Synthesize principles of negotiation, ethical decision making, resource management, continuous quality improvement, problem solving, effective communication and team building that create and maintain partnerships and collaboration for the purpose of cost effective, high quality health care
   
• Demonstrate creativity, ability to share vision for spiritually sensitive and culturally aware strategies and take calculated risks for enhancement of quality health care
   
• Participate in research and incorporate findings confidently into the role of the nurse manager

Curriculum

Statistics and Theory are recommended to be taken before or with research.