Nursing Education, Post-Master’s Certificate

Students who have already earned a Master of Science in Nursing Degree and are licensed as RNs may take the following courses in either Healthcare Administration & Quality, Nursing Education, to earn a post-master’s certificate in that area of specialization. Master’s prepared non-nurses may take certificate courses in Healthcare Administration & Quality. Courses from universities other than MNU may be accepted in transfer, however, a minimum of 12 hours must be completed at MNU (above those earned in the master’s degree program).  NURS 6314:  Advanced Health Assessment and NURS 6323:  Advanced Pathophysiology & Pharmacotherapeutics are required to be previously taken or can be taken as part of the certificate.

Nursing Education Outcomes:

1. Christlike Community
   Faith Integration: Appreciate sacred Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience as the foundation to know the triune God - Father, Son, Spirit; as such, generating a deepened spiritual journey and allowing faith to guide advanced professional nursing practice. 

   Interprofessional Partnerships: Evaluate the effectiveness of interprofessional collaboration in optimizing patient care and outcomes. Propose innovative strategies for fostering collaborative relationships across professions and with care team members, including patients, families, and communities to enhance the healthcare experience and strengthen outcomes. 

   Professionalism: Develop and cultivate a sustainable professional identity that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values and demonstrates accountability, perspective, a collaborative disposition, and comportment. 

2. Academic Excellence
   Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Integrate, translate, and apply established and evolving knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to formulate sound clinical judgment and propose innovation in nursing practice. 

   Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline: Generate, synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate nursing knowledge to improve health and transform healthcare. 

   Quality and Safety: Apply established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science to enhance quality and minimize harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. 

   Informatics and Healthcare Technology: Evaluate and integrate information and communication technologies and informatics processes that meet regulatory and professional standards and help manage and improve the delivery of safe, efficient, quality care. 

3. Passion to Serve
   Person Centered-Care: Design, deliver and evaluate comprehensive personalized healthcare that demonstrates a compassionate understanding of the patient’s development, social contexts, and values, as well as evidence-based practice. 

   Systems-Based Practice: Support healthcare as a complex, adaptive and nuanced system and effectively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.