Nursing management

Offered in conjunction with the Sidhu School of Business and Leadership, this program molds nurse leaders to assume management roles in various health care settings. These may include inpatient and outpatient care delivery, health maintenance, disease management, healthcare consulting and healthcare technology organizations.

In addition to core nursing credits, students examine economics, financial management and human resources law and compensation, and business issues. To assess readiness to take advanced business courses, additional advisement by business division faculty is provided.

Admission requirements:

• graduation from an accredited baccalaureate program in nursing with 
  a minimum 3.0 on a 4.0 scale from original program
• licensure as a registered nurse
• one year of clinical practice prior to management core
• undergraduate statistics course
• undergraduate research course
• statement of professional goals
• two letters of recommendation
• personal interview

Course of Study

Each student’s program will be tailored to meet individual professional goals and program requirements.

Core courses:

NSG 501   Theoretical Foundations of Nursing

NSG 502   Application of Nursing Research

NSG 504   Advanced Role Development in Nursing

NSG 505   Current Perspectives in Nursing

NSG 533   Pharmacotherapeutics for Nursing

NSG 590   Scholarly Project

Management Foundations Courses (1 credit each, required)
MBA 5011 Foundations of Financial Accounting
MBA 5012 Foundations of Managerial Accounting 
MBA 5013 Foundations of Finance 
MBA 5021 Foundations of Management 
MBA 5022 Foundations of Marketing 
MBA 5023 Foundations of Law 
MBA 5031 Foundations of Macroeconomics 
MBA 5032 Foundations of Microeconomics 
MBA 5033 Foundations of International Business 
MBA 5041 Foundations of Statistics 
MBA 5042 Foundations of Operations Management 
MBA 5043 Foundations of MIS

Elective Courses (select 6 credits)

MBA 512 Business Research Design and Methods

MBA 513 Operations Management

MBA 520 Marketing Management
MBA 532 Managerial Economics

MBA 537 Global Business Experience
MBA 540 Financial Management

MBA 554 Organizational Diagnosis, Development, and Change

MBA 555 Human Resources Law and Compensation

MBA 560 Financial and Managerial Accounting   
MBA 576 Managing Health Care Systems
MBA 577 Advanced Topics in Health Care Management

MBA 580 Business Issues in a Dynamic Environment

• Wilkes to Host Graduate Studies Information Session Aug. 4
• Graduate Studies Information Session Scheduled for April 22

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