Master of Science - Nurse Leader Online
Build a multidisciplinary skillset that will advance your career as a nurse and prepare you to work as a leader in multiple roles. Gain key knowledge to take the Certified Nurse Manager and Leader exam offered by the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).
Apply by:
4/25/23
Program Overview
Get to know the Master of Science – Nurse Leader online
Improve the future of nursing and health care practices by earning your MS Nurse Leader online. Designed for those with a BSN, the online program offers a comprehensive education that will advance your nursing expertise and help you grow as an impactful leader.
Expand your skills in nursing, leadership, human resource management, and other key business fundamentals through emerging research, team-based projects, and real-world experience. Learn to assess common issues faced by nurses and other health care professionals and create action-oriented solutions.
By completing the MS Nurse Leader online, you will be prepared to take the Certified Nurse Manager and Leader exam offered by the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).
Graduates of this online master’s degree will be prepared to:
- Integrate extant and emerging research and scholarly knowledge to advance nursing care and management within an interdisciplinary, holistic, caring-healing framework
- Demonstrate advanced clinical and critical reasoning, reflective learning, ethical analysis, and all ways of knowing to assess, design, implement, and evaluate advanced nursing care and management practices that are holistic, safe, and evidence-based
- Use communication, effective and therapeutic information literacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration to influence relationship-building in complex health, cultural, and sociopolitical issues of diverse populations
- Participate in designing and implementing cost-effective care in diverse, multicultural, and dynamic environments and systems
- Explicate policy, organization, and financing of health care to initiate change and improve nursing and health care practices in communities and globally
- Demonstrate role development through accountability and leadership in clinical, management, informatics and health care technologies, and advanced practice roles
- Use informatics, data analysis, and design-thinking as an innovation accelerator for quality improvement and safety
- Integrate extant and emerging research and scholarly knowledge to advance nursing care and management within an interdisciplinary, holistic, caring-healing framework
- Demonstrate advanced clinical and critical reasoning, reflective learning, ethical analysis, and all ways of knowing to assess, design, implement, and evaluate advanced nursing care and management practices that are holistic, safe, and evidence-based
- Use communication, effective and therapeutic information literacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration to influence relationship-building in complex health, cultural, and sociopolitical issues of diverse populations
- Participate in designing and implementing cost-effective care in diverse, multicultural, and dynamic environments and systems
- Explicate policy, organization, and financing of health care to initiate change and improve nursing and health care practices in communities and globally
- Demonstrate role development through accountability and leadership in clinical, management, informatics and health care technologies, and advanced practice roles
- Use informatics, data analysis, and design-thinking as an innovation accelerator for quality improvement and safety
Career opportunities:
- Nurse Manager
- Clinical Nurse Researcher
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Nurse Administrator
- Clinical Nurse Leader
- Director of Nursing
- Nurse Educator
- Nurse Manager
- Clinical Nurse Researcher
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Nurse Administrator
- Clinical Nurse Leader
- Director of Nursing
- Nurse Educator
Also available:
Manhattanville also offers other online nursing programs. Explore our health care programs.
Total Tuition
$20,700
Program Duration:
As few as 14 months
Credit Hours:
36
Accreditation
Manhattanville College is an accredited institution and a member of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)
Also available:
Manhattanville also offers other online nursing programs. Explore our health care programs.
Tuition
Get a world-class education at a price you can afford
At Manhattanville, we strive to offer a high-quality education at a great value. The Master of Science – Nurse Leader online program is competitively priced and offers pay-by-the-course tuition to make earning your degree more affordable.
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS – Nurse Leader | $575 | $1,725 | $20,700 |
Tuition breakdown:
Total Tuition
$20,700
Per Credit Hour
$575
Calendar
Mark these important dates and deadlines
The MS Nurse Leader online program is designed with working professionals in mind. We offer multiple start dates and accelerated courses to accommodate your schedule and allow you to earn your degree quickly.
| Term | Start Date | App Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Class End Date | Term Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2023, Session I | 5/8/23 | 4/25/23 | 4/27/23 | 5/3/23 | 5/4/23 | 6/23/23 | 7 weeks |
| Summer 2023, Session II | 7/3/23 | 6/20/23 | 6/22/23 | 6/28/23 | 6/29/23 | 8/18/23 | 7 weeks |
| Fall 2023, Session I | 8/28/23 | 8/15/23 | 8/17/23 | 8/23/23 | 8/24/23 | 10/13/23 | 7 weeks |
| Fall 2023, Session I | 10/23/23 | 10/10/23 | 10/12/23 | 10/18/23 | 10/19/23 | 12/8/23 | 7 weeks |
Now enrolling:
Apply Date
4/25/23
Class Starts
5/8/23
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Admissions
Start your application for the online nurse leader master’s
The streamlined admission process at Manhattanville College makes it easier to apply and helps you start your academic journey faster. Please read the full admission requirements for the Master of Science – Nurse Leader.
Admission Requirements:
- 3.0 GPA or higher
- BS/BSN degree from an accredited institution
- Current unencumbered nursing license
You must meet the following requirements for admission to the Master of Science – Nurse Leader online program:
- Submit online application
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing from a college or university
- Minimum GPA of 3.0 or higher on a scale of 4.0
- Official transcripts from all previously attended institutions
- Completed an undergraduate or graduate statistics course with a B or higher
- Evidence of professional nursing experience in direct patient care prior to practicum
- A current unencumbered nursing license
Official transcripts and other documents should be sent from the granting institutions to our Office of Admissions.
Email Address: [email protected]
Mailing Address:
Manhattanville College
Office of Admissions
2900 Purchase Street — Reid G5
Purchase, NY 10577
Courses
Here’s what you’ll learn in the Master of Science – Nurse Leader
For the Master of Science – Nurse Leader online, the curriculum comprises of 14 courses, for a total of 36 credit hours.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides an opportunity for the student to examine nursing theories and select theories in the social sciences and philosophies in nursing science and the role they have in the support of advanced nursing practice. Multiple ways of knowing and interprofessonal knowledge is explored. The student will analyze the impact of advances in nursing theory and nursing science on healthcare, technology and patient outcomes which will support decision making in the delivery of patient centered care.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides a critical knowledge base in the core principles of evidence based practice. Students will learn how to find specific evidence, how to appraise and analyze the evidence and then communicate the evidence in a scholarly way utilizing papers, and presentations. Students will use their skills to identify a specific health care related issue, then find and apply the most current evidence that identifies the needs while supporting the solution to that issue. This class provides the foundational skills necessary to find and use evidence to support individual practice, and appropriately apply evidence to different population based settings.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides an opportunity for students to assess ethical and legal issues confronting nurses and other healthcare providers in a variety of healthcare delivery settings. Each module is an opportunity to identify and analyze legal and ethical concepts plus the principles underlying nursing and healthcare. This course examines theories and values applied in ethical decision-making that are related to a variety of ethical dilemmas in nursing practice and healthcare. This course promotes a review of regulations under which professional nurses practice and highlights the impression that ethical and legal issues are often not mutually exclusive.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is built on the human resources body of knowledge and will study the nature of human resource management, staffing the organization, developing human resources, managing employee relations, and managing in a union environment. Course competencies and outcomes focus on the importance of human resource knowledge with business essentials. This course will also focus on conflict resolution and effective communication techniques in and outside of the organization as well as internal marketing strategies to increase employee engagement with an emphasis on the impact of positive employee relations on care deliver.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course review basic principles of healthcare economics, accounting, and financial analysis and reimbursement for nursing leaders in nursing and healthcare administration. Business tools used in financial tracking, trending, and reporting in health care will be examined, particularly as these skills might enhance the financial acumen of nursing administrators in various position in healthcare.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the economic, legal, fiscal, political, epidemiological and evolving global factors that influence health care delivery systems. Inter-professional health communication, collaboration, and the utilization of health information technology in promoting public health are explored. The impact of innovation as a driver of health care change is emphasized. Important components include access and utilization, sociopolitical advocacy, community engagement, and empowerment for safe, quality health services. Ethical and legal implications of health care decisions and the responsibility of creating a caring environment will also be examined. The course covers current challenges faced by the U.S. health care delivery system and how health policy, both historically and today with the Affordable Health Care Act has sought to address these challenges. Finally, the future of health care delivery in the U.S. and health policy will be explored.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is an introduction to design thinking. Health care systems require continuous innovation to meet the needs of patients and providers. Design Thinking is an action-oriented approach to creating solutions. Over the course of the semester, students will define, ideate and prototype solutions to a problem they identify in healthcare practice. In addition to learning and participating in the process of design thinking, students will practice the design thinking mindsets of empathy, collaboration, optimism, embracing failure, creative confidence, and a bias toward action. The course will be teamwork-oriented, but students will also complete readings and independent activities that support the group work and ensure individual knowledge.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This course is part II in the Practicums. This course provides the student with the opportunity to experience the role of the nurse leader at the mid-level or chief executive level. The student chooses an individualized nursing leadership in a specific area of clinical emphasis. The faculty and the assigned on-ground preceptor monitor it. Competencies that govern the role of the nurse leader are explored in depth. Students focus on the context for enacting the role of nurse leader in a healthcare delivery system. This course requires completion of 150 total practicum.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to prepare leaders for the functional complexities inherent in organizational life. The focus of this course will be on the development of an advanced skill set in each of the major organizational functions (marketing, finance, HR, and IT). The impact of population health on the traditional organizations functions will also be emphasized. This course also explores methods of decision-making, communication skills and conflict management.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 1
This course is Part I of II. This course provides the student an opportunity to integrate standards of professional nursing leadership performance along with the practice of ethical, legal, and regulatory guidelines. The student will have an opportunity to complete a capstone project that will integrate and apply theory and practice-related knowledge to the role of the nurse leader. The course helps meet standards of graduate level nursing education as articulated by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the American Nurses Association’s Scope and Standards for Nursing Administration and, the American Organization for Nursing Leadership.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This course is part I of II. This course provides the student with the opportunity to experience the role of the nurse leader at the mid-level or chief executive level. The student chooses an individualized nursing leadership in a specific area of clinical emphasis. It is monitored by the faculty course chair and the assigned on-ground preceptor(s). Competencies that govern the role of the nurse leader are explored in depth. Students focus on the context for enacting the role of nurse leader in a healthcare delivery system. This course requires completion of 150 total practicum hours.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed for graduate students who intend to understand the process of analysis of patient data and electronic health records (EHR) to improve patient care, and to achieve greater efficiencies in healthcare systems. The course explores the concept of clinical intelligence and the role of analytics in supporting a data-driven learning healthcare system. The aim is to focus beyond data collection, to analyzing available data and making it into actionable information. This course includes nursing science and the foundation of knowledge.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 1
This course is the second part of the Capstone Project. It provides the student an opportunity to integrate standards of professional nursing leadership performance along with the practice of ethical, legal, and regulatory guidelines. The student will have an opportunity to complete a capstone project that will integrate and apply theory and practice-related knowledge to the role of the nurse leader. The course helps meet standards of graduate level nursing education as articulated by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the American Nurses Association’s Scope and Standards for Nursing Administration and, the American Organization for Nursing Leadership.
Duration: 7 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the development of leadership styles and policies that transform healthcare systems. The principles and factors relevant to leadership will be explored in relation to complex organizations. Students will learn quality indicator assessment to develop and plan for execution of quality improvement plans. Value based care and interventions will be discussed to assure quality and cost containment.
