Nursing Leadership and Management

Overview

The Nursing Leadership and Management curriculum at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay will provide students with knowledge and skills to improve outcomes in areas of quality processes, cost savings, and patient satisfaction.

Core content within the curriculum includes leadership, fiscal management, evaluative methods, information systems, health care policy, communication, and organizational behavior. Didactic and practicum courses will comprise the curriculum. Practicum experiences will be arranged with health care facilities in students’ geographic areas. 

Graduates with Nursing Leadership and Management from University of Wisconsin Green Bay will be able to:

• Integrate knowledge of sciences and humanities as a basis for leadership and nursing practice.

• Apply concepts of organizational and systems leadership indecision making in the health care environment.

• Enact a nurse leader role in safety and quality improvement in the health care environment.

• Apply research evidence in nursing leadership and practice to enhance care and improve outcomes of nursing.

• Utilize informatics and health care technologies to enhance care and outcomes of nursing.

• Intervene at the systems level through policy, fiscal management, and advocacy to influence the health care environment.

• Communicate and collaborate as a member and leader of inter professional teams to optimize health care delivery.

• Analyze the role of nurse leader to reduce health disparities and promote population health.

• Evaluate personal growth as a professional nurse leader.

• Influence health care outcomes through master's level nursing practice, cognizant of environmental sustainability.