Nursing Leadership
Elevate your Influence. Expand your Leadership Capacity
The Advanced Certificate in Nursing Leadership is designed for experienced nurses who already hold a master’s degree in nursing and are ready to elevate their influence, expand their leadership capacity, and drive meaningful change across healthcare systems. This postmaster’s program provides an accelerated pathway for nurses seeking to refine their strategic, operational, and relational leadership skills. The program is part-time and offered in a distance modality.
Grounded in contemporary leadership science and evidencebased practice, the curriculum prepares nurses to lead confidently in today’s complex, technologydriven healthcare environment. Students deepen their expertise in organizational leadership, clinical and operational decisionmaking, quality improvement, health policy, financial stewardship, informatics, and systems thinking—competencies essential for guiding teams, shaping practice environments, and improving outcomes.
Throughout the program, students strengthen advanced skills in communication, conflict management, resource allocation, ethical leadership, and change management. Learning experiences emphasize realworld application, enabling nurses to translate theory into practice and step into roles such as nurse manager, director, clinical leader, program coordinator, or emerging executive leader.
Designed for working professionals, the program offers a flexible structure that empowers nurses to enhance their leadership identity while maintaining career momentum. Graduates emerge as dynamic nurse leaders equipped to influence policy, support organizational transformation, promote health equity, mentor emerging professionals, and drive high-quality, patientcentered care across diverse healthcare settings.
Required Courses (24 credits, 500 practicum hours):
NUR 5401 – Advanced Practice: Nursing Leadership - 100 practicum hours
3 credits
NUR 5402 – Nursing Leadership: Improvement Strategies - 100 practicum hours
3 credits
NUR 5403 – Introduction to Advanced Practice Nursing Informatics - 100 practicum hours
3 credits
NUR 5420 – Practicum in Nursing Leadership - 200 practicum hours
3 credits
NUR 5490 – Introduction to Health Policy Analysis
3 credits
NUR 5460 – Human Resources Management
3 credits
BUS 5560 – Economic Evaluations in Healthcare
3 credits
BUS 5570 – Healthcare Finance
3 credits