Nursing Leadership Graduate Certificate
School of Nursing and Health Sciences
The Nursing Leadership graduate certificate is designed for nursing
professionals who want to increase their knowledge in health care
management and leadership. Using an evidence-based approach, learners
address health care quality and safety, finance and health care
operations management, organizational leadership, and health care
challenges and trends. Throughout the certificate program, learners
also assess and further strengthen their characteristics as ethical
and culturally aware health care leaders, visionaries, and risk takers
and gain an understanding of how to effectively communicate with other
members of a health care team to promote strategic thinking, planning,
and interprofessional collaboration in practice.
NURS6210 |
Leadership and Management for Nurse Executives
Learners in this course develop and demonstrate knowledge of
contemporary leadership and management concepts and theories relevant
to a variety of health care delivery settings. Learners analyze the
nurse leader’s role in leading high-performing health care teams and
examine the skills needed to collaborate with, and create buy-in from,
stakeholders, colleagues, constituencies, and interdisciplinary teams.
Learners also examine the impact of cultural, ethical, and regulatory
considerations on decision making and implement a future-looking
strategic vision to ensure sustainable gains in quality and safety.
For MSN learners only.
| 4 quarter credits |
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NURS6212 |
Health Care Quality and Safety Management
Learners in this course examine the nurse leader’s role in helping to
effectively integrate into health care delivery systems the quality
and safety principles that inform evidence-based changes and best
practices. Learners demonstrate an understanding of the ways they can
measure health care quality and safety; monitor and assess patient
safety and outcomes; develop a transparent system for identifying and
resolving medical errors and adverse patient outcomes; use data to
monitor and improve patient care and outcomes; and support a culture
of quality and safety.
For MSN learners only.
| 4 quarter credits |
NURS6214 |
Health Care Informatics and Technology
Learners in this course gain and demonstrate the knowledge and skills
nurse leaders need in order to utilize health information technology
to enhance patient care and outcomes. In particular, learners develop
a strategy for technological integration and examine the ways in which
they can use technology to evaluate patient data to inform patient
diagnoses and outcomes. Learners also assess the effective management
of technological change within the health care environment and examine
issues of consumer access to information and the privacy and
confidentiality of patient information.
For MSN learners only.
| 4 quarter credits |
NURS6216 |
Advanced Finance and Operations Management
Learners in this course examine the nurse leader’s role in
establishing and managing an operations and capital budget. In
particular, learners develop an understanding of how to incorporate
variances or discretionary spending, manage the labor force within
budget parameters, examine the availability and appropriate use of
equipment and supplies, and apply finance principles to a strategic
plan for achieving an organization’s fiscal goals.
For MSN learners only.
| 4 quarter credits |
NURS6218 |
Leading the Future of Health Care
Learners in this course examine the role of the nurse leader in
evaluating and responding to health care opportunities and challenges
in a rapidly changing local and global environment. Learners develop
proactive strategies to drive and lead changes in health care and
integrate evidence-based decision making into the culture of the
health care organization. Learners also develop the critical-thinking
and communication skills needed to positively influence health care
redesign and examine the effects of visionary leadership in the field.
For MSN learners only.
| 4 quarter credits |
Total
At least 20 quarter credits
Learners who do not complete all program requirements within quarter credit/program point minimums will be required to accrue such additional quarter credits/program points as are associated with any additional or repeat coursework necessary for successful completion of program requirements.
Alabama residents are not eligible to enroll in this graduate certificate.
This certificate does not
prepare graduates for licensure as an RN or APRN.