Master of Science in Nursing/
Master of Business Administration (MSN/MBA)

The Graduate Nursing Program in the School of Nursing has joined with the Graduate Business Programs to offer a dual degree track leading to two separate graduate degrees: a Master of Science in Nursing and a Master of Business Administration (58 credit hours). This track offers professionals who have a BSN in nursing an opportunity to gain advanced nursing practice and research experience, while also providing them with the management and financial skills expected to assume nursing executive positions in today's complex health care organizations.

Educational Objectives

The MSN/MBA 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

   

MSN/MBACurriculum