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	4
NURS6212	Health Care Quality and Safety Management	4
NURS6214	Health Care Informatics and Technology	4
NURS6216	Advanced Finance and Operations Management	4
NURS6218	Leading the Future of Health Care	4

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.