Normal Program Length: 3 years 4 months
This program is offered online.
This program is not currently eligible for Title IV for new enrollments.
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Designed for working healthcare professionals and registered nurses, the Master of Science in Nursing/Master of Business Administration Healthcare (MSN/MBA-HC) program is designed to offer the skills and insights students could use to better prepare for leadership opportunities in healthcare.
This is a post-licensure program. Students must already be licensed as an RN to be accepted for admission and must maintain an active and unencumbered RN license throughout their enrollment in the program. This program is not designed to fulfill the educational requirements for any licensure or certification. Post University does not speak on behalf of any licensing board or body but does assist students in understanding licensure requirements.
Visit our State Authorization and Licensure page for more information.
This program is offered with two separate modalities (methods of delivery): term based and SIMPath (competency based). The learning outcomes and level of difficulty are the same for both modalities. The term based modality allows students to take courses in a traditional format. The SIMPath modality is a competency based approach that allows students to move through each course at their own pace, demonstrating a mastery of skills utilizing an array of methods.
Coursework in the MSN/MBA-HC program is designed to help students build the foundation of insights and practical skills necessary to:
- Analyze organizational structures and policies to address organizational issues.
- Appraise strategic, operational, and financial planning processes in health care settings.
- Implement human resource management principles as an organizational leader.
- Internalize various organizational and leadership concepts into personal leadership values.
- Integrate roles as leaders and collaborators in various healthcare settings.
- Use theoretical knowledge to guide advanced nursing practice.
- Analyze models that expand the role of nurses in a global society.
- Evaluate legislation, policies, and economics as applied to the current healthcare environment.
- Appraise research to enhance professional nursing practice.
- Lead and collaborate with other professionals and communities in planning, providing, and improving healthcare services and systems.
- Effectively manage the performance of healthcare professionals in diverse organizational environments.
- Integrate multiple functional and professional perspectives to create innovative solutions to complex problems.
- Use theoretical knowledge and contemporary research for evidence-based decision-making.
- Lead others in the acceptance of accountability, responsibility, and stewardship for an organization's action and judgments.
- Address the legal, regulatory, and ethical challenges of the healthcare industry
Curriculum
For term based programs, at no time may a student be registered for more than four courses concurrently in a 16-week period. Concurrent course registration cannot violate progression or prerequisite requirements. Concurrent course registration is subject to course availability.
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