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Learning Outcomes
Nurse leaders need knowledge and competencies to effectively create work environments that promote professional and collaborative nursing practices and ultimately achieve quality patient care.
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Potential employment opportunities for nursing graduates
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- Nurse Manager
- Nurse Educator
- Unit Manager
- Director of Nursing
- Vice President of Nursing (or Clinical Services)
- Case Manager
- Outcomes Manager
- Project Director
- Administrative Consultant
- Health Policy Specialist
- Staff Development Consultant
- Entrepreneur
- Manager of Clinical Operations
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Concentration Outcomes
The graduate of the MSN with a Concentration in Nursing Administration will:
- Use a variety of strategies to communicate effectively with stakeholders regarding nursing and health care system issues.
- Identify problems and seek interventions to improve health care delivery outcomes using appropriate data and effective critical thinking and decision-making skills.
- Apply leadership and management theory to develop collaborative partnerships across health care disciplines in own-practice setting.
- Use appropriate data to make decisions in determining effective use of human and fiscal resources.
- Develop an evidence-based practice using research to improve the quality of health care.
- Implement the role of the nurse leader/manager as defined by the ANA scope and standards of practice.
- Demonstrate the abilities of the advanced practice nurse leader/manager as outlined by the AACN.
- Apply theories of nursing, systems, change, leadership, and management in the management of health care services delivery.
Nurse educators must be prepared to face challenges in the classroom such as student diversity, the wide variety of learning needs, changing student expectations, an explosion in educational technology, and the complexity of the clinical environment in which their students will practice.
The graduate of the MSN with a Concentration in Nursing Education will:
- Use a variety of strategies to communicate effectively with stakeholders regarding nursing and health care system issues.
- Identify problems and seek interventions to improve health care delivery outcomes using appropriate data and effective critical thinking and decision-making skills.
- Apply leadership and management theory to develop collaborative partnerships across health care disciplines in own-practice setting.
- Effectively facilitate learning, learner development, and role socialization.
- Utilize evidence based assessment strategies to evaluate learning in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains.
- Implement the role of the nurse educator in terms of teaching, leadership, mentorship, scholarship, research, service, and clinical practice.
- Demonstrate a commitment to role competence through the pursuit of continuous quality improvement in the nurse educator role.
- Function within the educational environment as a leader and a change agent.
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