Courses - Total 60 Semester Credits and 500 clinical hours

NUR 510 - Healthcare Across the Population 3 Semester Credit(s)

Healthcare extends beyond traditional settings of care transactions. It includes not only hospitals and clinics but also, in a growing capacity, the world (i.e., communities, regions, and countries). Public health knowledge is grounded in principles of epidemiology and influenced by genetics and genomics. Utilizing principles of both, students will explore environmental health, ethical health disparities, and issues of social justice.

NUR 551 - Critique & Design of Nursing Research 3 Semester Credit(s)

Understanding and utilizing research findings are fundamental skills that are needed to advance the nursing profession. This course focuses on advanced scholarly activities that are utilized to conduct nursing research. The history of nursing research; steps that are utilized to conduct research; and differences between the utilization of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies are discussed. The modeling of servant leadership principles that includes the incorporation of research into one’s own practice; engaging in and encouraging activities to generate evidence; and promoting others to use research findings will be explored.

NUR 601 - Evidence-Based Practice and Strategic Healthcare Decision Making 2 Semester Credit(s)

The health of an organization, a population, or an individual relies heavily on strategic decision-making based on evidenced based findings yet individualized to the unique setting they are applied in. This course will engage students in principles of evidence based practice and knowledge translation. Topics focused on will include healthcare quality, patient safety, population health, and healthcare informatics/technologies.

NUR 612 - Professional Roles in Advanced Nursing 3 Semester Credit(s)

This course provides a framework of professional standards that serve as the foundation to nursing education, practice and professionalism. The course will immerse students in the profession’s historical roots as well as current and future issues, roles, practice environments, and opportunities. Upon completion of the course, students will be prepared to role model behaviors that effectively advocate efforts to promote positive patient outcomes and advance the profession

NUR 614 - Resilient Nursing Leadership - 4 Semester Credit(s)

Complexities of the current United States healthcare environment require nurse leaders to act with moral courage and inspire transdisciplinary teams toward systems transformation. As healers, resilient nurse leaders are responsible to foster a spirit of community, promote adaptability, focus on patient-centered decision making, and establish innovative practices that sustain high quality care. This course requires students to explore leadership philosophies, design strategies for continued professional growth, and accept greater accountability as a leader in advancing healthcare. In this course students will be paired with a mentor to participate in and reflect on leadership experiences for future integration of best practices in their advanced nursing roles.

NUR 648 - Healthcrae Law & Policy - 3 Semester Credit(s)

This course will provide a basic foundation of the legal system and a broad analysis of laws which impact health care. Topics of particular focus in the course will include professional licensing regulations, practices which create legal liability for health care providers and health care institutions, requirements and pitfalls of reimbursement and payment systems, the decision making processes for death and dying, and the exploration of laws which may directly or indirectly impact health care.

BUS 502 - Business Operations - 3 Semester Credit(s)

This course emphasizes the importance of managing the activities involved in the process of converting or transforming resources into products or services. Topics include process planning, capacity planning, quality tools, and how the operations management area integrates with the other functional areas of the organization.

BUS 504 -

Management & Organizational Behavior - 3 Semester Credit(s)

Managers can be more effective leaders and decision makers by utilizing knowledge from the field of organizational behavior, which focuses on understanding human behavior at the individual and group level within the context of an organization. Concepts that influence behavior such as group dynamics, organization culture, motivation, power and politics, and conflict management are some of the specific areas covered in this course.

BUS 505 - Human Resource Management - 3 Semester Credit(s)

This course will study the nature of human resource management, staffing the organization, developing human resources, compensating human resources and managing employee relations. The course emphasizes the need for HR professionals to effectively contribute to their organization as a strategic and knowledgeable business partner. Course competencies and outcomes focus on the importance of integrating HR knowledge with business essentials.

BUS 555 - Managerial Finance - 3 Semester Credit(s)

Analyze the relationship of the financial manager, the manager’s organization, the financial markets, and the tax environment, as well as how to use time value of money valuation tools and risk and return valuation models. Focusing on the more technical or financial aspects of organizational life, the manager will be able to develop some measurable objectives by which to assess organizational goals

BUS 571 - Executive Economic Analysis- 3 Semester Credit(s)

This course presents a wealth of real-world cutting-edge applications of advanced microeconomic theory. Applications will include micreconomic contributions to the understanding of leadership, globalization, consumer welfare and environmentally beneficial activities. The efficiency effects of perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition will be compared and contrasted

BUS 605 - Managerial Accounting- 3 Semester Credit(s)

Analysis of financial data and use of the results to make wise business decisions. Enables managers to better control valuable resources and more accurately predict the cost of future business ventures.

BUS 610 - Marketing- 3 Semester Credit(s)

Introduces students to the area of marketing management and analysis of the domain of marketing, including theories of how marketing managers make decisions, appeal to consumers, and develop unique marketing strategies. The managerial implications of these theoretical foundations will also be presented.

BUS 630 - Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Administration- 3 Semester Credit(s)

The field of healthcare is rapidly changing. Effective administrators and managers must stay abreast of current issues to proactively assess and prepare for the impact to their particular field within the industry. This course discusses and evaluates evolving issues and provides a venue for debate and analysis of potential impact.

BUS 635 - Law in the Managerial Environment- 3 Semester Credit(s)

This course is intended to teach not just principles and rules of law but also the thinking involved in legal reasoning. The focus is on how the rules of law are applied to business situations.

BUS 653 - Healthcare Organizations and Finance- 3 Semester Credit(s)

This course is designed to provide students with a practical understanding of healthcare financial issues, financial reporting and analysis. Financial management tools and methods used in budget preparation, evaluation of investment alternatives, financial forecasting and capital structures are covered with a focus on common practices in healthcare organizations.

NUR 560 - Applied Healthcare Economics, Finance and Budgeting- 3 Semester Credit(s)

Efforts to optimize delivery of high quality, safe and effective healthcare in a cost-effective fashion are the objective of nurse leaders. Factors affecting the financial health of an organization including economics, federal and state payment systems and regulations, and private insurance issues are investigated. Principles of healthcare financing, budgeting, cost/ benefit analysis, and fiscal reporting will be explored. The course will culminate in development of a business plan that demonstrates responsible management of financial resources.

NUR 697 - Seminar and Service Project I 3 Semester Credit(s)

Students will initiate a capstone project within a healthcare organization as a member of a team. Working in consultation with a nursing leader a clinical practice question will be identified. The students will work together in teams to analyze the clinical practice problem, design specific clinical practice project recommendations and identify methods for measuring project outcomes. As a result of this course, the student will be prepared to implement and measure effectiveness of the clinical project in NUR 697 - Seminar and Service Project II.

NUR 698 - MSN/MBA Dual Degree Capstone Course - 3 Semester Credit(s)

Working as a member of intra-professional and inter-professional teams, students will conduct planning, implementation, and outcome measurement of a clinical project initiated in NUR 696 - Seminar and Service Project I. Careful consideration of human and fiscal resources as well as potential barriers to continued success of the project will be assessed and recommendations for management of these issues will be included in the final project. In this course students will achieve university and organizational Institutional Review Board approval to implement, and subsequently measure and disseminate findings of the clinical project.

PHI 572 - Ethics - 3 Semester Credit(s)

Perceive, analyze, and assess systems of values. Maintain ethical standards in a professional environment.