NUR 510 - Health Care Across the Population (3 Semester Credits)

• ​Health care 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. Students will use both principles to explore environmental health, ethical health disparities, and social justice issues.

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

• Understanding and utilizing research findings are fundamental skills to advance nursing. This course focuses on advanced scholarly activities used to conduct nursing research. The history of nursing research, steps utilized to conduct research, and differences between quantitative and qualitative research methodologies are discussed. The modeling of servant leadership principles that include incorporating research into one's practice, engaging in and encouraging activities to generate evidence, and promoting others to use research findings will be explored.

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NUR 601 - Evidence-Based Practice & Strategic Health Care Decision Making (2 Semester Credits)

• 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 will include healthcare quality, patient safety, population health, and healthcare informatics/technologies.

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

• This course provides a framework of professional standards that serve as the foundation for 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 completing the course, students will be prepared to role model behaviors that effectively advocate efforts to promote positive patient outcomes and advance the profession.

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NUR 614 - Resilient Nursing Leadership (4 Semester Credits)

• 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 for fostering community spirit, promoting adaptability, focusing on patient-centered decision-making, and establishing 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.

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NUR 648 - Health Care Law & Policy (3 Semester Credits)

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

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BUS 502 - Operations Management (3 Semester Credits)

• This course emphasizes the importance of managing activities to convert 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.

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BUS 504 - Management and Organizational Behavior (3 Semester Credits)

• 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 levels within the context of an organization. Some specific areas covered in this course are concepts that influence behavior, such as group dynamics, organization culture, motivation, power and politics, and conflict management.

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BUS 505 - Human Resource Management (3 Semester Credits)

• 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 strategic and knowledgeable business partners. Course competencies and outcomes focus on integrating HR knowledge with business essentials.

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BUS 555 - Managerial Finance (3 Semester Credits)

• Analyze the relationship of the financial manager, the manager's organization, the financial markets, the tax environment, and how to use the 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 measurable objectives to assess organizational goals.

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BUS 571 - Executive Economic Analysis (3 Semester Credits)

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

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BUS 605 - Managerial Accounting (3 Semester Credits)

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

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BUS 610 - Marketing (3 Semester Credits)

• Introduces students to the area of marketing management and analysis of the marketing domain, 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.

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

• 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 on their particular area within the industry. This course discusses and evaluates evolving issues and provides a venue for debate and analysis of potential impact.

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

• This course is intended to teach the principles and rules of law and the thinking involved in legal reasoning. The focus is on how the law rules are applied to business situations.

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BUS 653 - Healthcare Organizations and Finance (3 Semester Credits)

• This course is designed to give students 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 standard practices in healthcare organizations.

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PHI 572 - Ethics (3 Semester Credits)

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

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NUR 560 - Applied Health Care Economics, Finance & Budgeting (3 Semester Credits)

• Nurse leaders aim to optimize the cost-effectiveness of high-quality, safe, and effective health care. 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 health care financing, budgeting, cost/ benefit analysis, and fiscal reporting will be explored. The course will culminate in developing a business plan that demonstrates responsible management of financial resources.

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NUR 696 - Seminar and Service Project I (3 Semester Credits)

• Students will initiate a capstone project within a healthcare organization as team members. A clinical practice question will be identified in consultation with a nursing leader. The students will work 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 the effectiveness of the clinical project in NUR 697 Leading Healthcare Innovation II for the Nursing Leadership and Management program or NUR 698 Leading Healthcare Innovation III for the MSN/MBA in Healthcare Administration Dual Degree program.

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

• 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. Careful consideration of human and fiscal resources and potential barriers to the project's continued success will be assessed, and recommendations for managing 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 task.