Health Systems Executive Nurse Leadership

The Masters in Health Systems Nurse Leadership is designed for BSN nurses and focuses on advanced leadership skills and competencies. The goal is to prepare and inform health care delivery by preparing students with the capacity to identify and lead in a health care system. Students will learn financial principles, health care delivery, quality and safety principles, and management of health care systems.

Graduates will be prepared to assume roles ranging from entry-level management to mid-level management positions within acute care, ambulatory and other continuum-spanning systems, focusing on continuous quality improvement.  This concentration includes the core curriculum from the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, which prepares the student to continue to the DNP program after the MSN is complete. Graduates of the program will be prepared to assume management positions within health care systems.  Upon graduation and completion of the required work experience, graduates may be prepared to take the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or the American Organization of Nurse Leaders (AONL) exams to become certified in nursing leadership.

The Health Systems Executive Leadership DNP curriculum focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to lead complex clinical environments effectively including:

• Understanding organizational behavior
• Implementing evidence-based management, practice, and quality improvement
• Integrating leadership in complex systems
• Utilizing principles of finance and healthcare economics for strategic planning
• Facilitating health policy
• Incorporating data analytics and population health into clinical systems design

Students complete a leadership practicum or residency with a senior-level mentor. This newly designed curriculum meets the New AACN Essentials for graduate nursing programs at the level 2 competencies.

NOTE: Courses and sequencing are subject to change.

Didactic 1 credit hour = 15 contact hours                                

Clinical 1 credit hour = 60 clinical contact hours

Total contact hours = 990

• BSN from a regionally accredited institution of higher education.
• Transcripts from all post-secondary schools attended.
• Cumulative GPA from undergraduate work 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale.
• Unencumbered/unrestricted RN License to practice in Missouri or Illinois

The Admissions Department may provide a 10-year forgiveness for cumulative GPA calculation.  The student should submit a petition for forgiveness of prior grades to the Admissions Department.

Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing reserves the right to adjust tuition and fees at any time. For additional information, please contact our Business Office.