Graduate Catalog 2024-2025

Nursing Management Specialization

The Nursing Management Specialization is designed to develop the skills that will allow the student to:

Knowledge

  1. Apply conceptual frameworks, models, and theories that provide the foundation for nursing management.

  2. Apply statistical methods in the research process.

  3. Integrate epidemiological concepts and principles.

  4. Incorporate cultural competence into the nursing management context.

  5. Evaluate the impact of management theories, organizational leadership, problem-solving, and conflict management in diverse healthcare settings.

Skills

  1. Incorporate the rules and regulations of the profession and accrediting agencies into their professional practice.

  2. Examine public policies, laws, and regulations related to the provision of health services and those of accrediting agencies to determine the economic impact on health systems.

  3. Integrate technology into health services, management, and nursing education.

Attitudes

  1. Appreciate emerging technological trends, incorporating evidence-based practice.

  2. Appreciate the impact of economics on health service organizations.

  3. Demonstrate the role of the nursing professional as an agent of change in the face of new technologies.

  4. Demonstrate commitment to structured methods for ethical decision-making.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DOCTOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING SPECIALTY NURSING MANAGEMENT

Specialty requirements - 15 credits

NURS 8140Management and Leadership Theories

3

NURS 8150Cultural Diversity in Nursing Management

2

NURS 8160Health Policies and Regulations

2

NURS 8210Finance and Economics in Health Care Organizations

3

NURS 8230Quality Improvement and Risk Prevention

3

NURS 8340Regulations and Accreditations in Health Service Settings

2

Operations requirements - 9 credits

NURS 8960Research Seminar

3

NURS 8991Dissertation I

3

NURS 8992Dissertation II

3

Core requirements - 15 credits

NURS 7000Models and Theories in Nursing

3

NURS 7010Biostatistics

3

NURS 7011Epidemiology

3

NURS 7012Quantitative Research

3

NURS 7013Qualitative Research

3