Nursing Administration Advanced Certificate

Advanced Certification Requirements

• NURS 607 - Finance and Economics in Healthcare Credit Hours: 3
• NURS 608 - Managing Human Resources Credit Hours: 3
• NURS 609 - Strategic Management in Healthcare Organizations Credit Hours: 3
• NURS 611 - Graduate Practicum II Credit Hours: 3

Program Learning Outcomes

The program’s educational objective will be to provide advanced practice nurses with further knowledge and skills to enable them to assume administrative and executive-level roles in healthcare:

• Explore budget and resource decisions contributing to the achievement of organizational outcomes and health care resource management within the context of providing efficient and cost-effective quality care.
• Apply concepts related to staff satisfaction and diversity of the workforce to create effective partnerships within organizations. 
• Identify processes for effective management of staff performance problems and the elements of collective bargaining and management of a unionized staff.
• Utilize a variety of administrative strategies to achieve measurable patient care delivery outcomes that effect positive change in patient communities.
• Develop a skillset in the nurse administrator role through an advanced administrative practicum experience focused on project management.