Nursing and Health Systems Leadership

Objectives

Practice in an advanced nursing role in a variety of settings.
Analyze trends in health care and health care administration practices that improve the health of society.
Synthesize leadership theories and principles in human resource 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 high-quality health care.
Participate in research and incorporate finding confidently into the role of the nurse manager.

NUGR 510	Applied Statistics	3 credit hours
NUGR 512	Theoretical Foundations for Advanced Nursing Practice	3 credit hours
NUGR 514	Nursing Research Design & Methodology	3 credit hours
NUGR 518	Issues and Policies in Health Care	2 credit hours
NUGR 519	Roles and Ethics for Advanced Practice Nursing	3 credit hours
NUGR 522	Health Care Informatics	2 credit hours
NUGR 568	Leadership and Managment	4 credit hours
NUGR 570	Quality Improvment & Project Management	3 credit hours
NUGR 571	Budgeting in Healthcare Organizations	3 credit hours
NUGR 572	Healthcare Finance	3 credit hours
NUGR 573	Operational Managment in Health Care	3 credit hours
NUGR 576	Nursing Administration Practicum I	5 credit hours
NUGR 578	Nursing Administration Practicum II	5 creidt hours
NUGR 590	Research Project	1 credit hour