Graduate Nursing Program

Badges

Henderson State University’s Graduate Nursing program offers the opportunity for a BSN or MSN prepared RN to obtain a graduate badge in Nursing Education or Nursing Executive Leadership and Administration. Both badges are offered in an online environment, allowing the flexibility to maintain full-time employment during completion.


Per Credit Hour: $484
Duration: As Few as 9 Months
Credit Hours: 6

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Nursing Education Options

Nursing Education offers two badges. Option I focuses on the fundamentals of nursing education while option II focuses on educational technology.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in nursing and unencumbered license
  • Online classes with practicum experiences in your region

Henderson State University’s Graduate Nursing program offers the opportunity for a BSN or MSN prepared RN to obtain a graduate badge in Nursing Education or Nursing Executive Leadership and Administration. Both badges are offered in an online environment, allowing the flexibility to maintain full-time employment during completion.

Nursing Education Options

Nursing Education offers two badges. Option I focuses on the fundamentals of nursing education while option II focuses on educational technology.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in nursing and unencumbered license
  • Online classes with practicum experiences in your region

Per Credit Hour
$484

Duration
As Few as 9 Months

Credit Hours
6

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  • NURS 55503: Nursing Education Theory

    Credit Hours: 3

    This course provides graduate students the knowledge necessary to mentor, coach, and instruct students and nurses. This course will introduce graduate nursing students to the theoretical aspects of teaching/learning. This course will also integrate depth of understanding of the nursing discipline, nursing practice, and enhanced pedagogical skills, including preparation in curriculum design and development, teaching methodologies, educational needs assessment, and learner-centered theories and methods.

  • NURS 51603: Nursing Education Theory Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3

    Hours of Instruction: Lecture 15 & Practicum 90

    This course provides an introduction to the theory of advanced nursing education. This practicum is a faculty-guided nursing education experiential immersion for applying and synthesizing the nurse educator role in academia or staff development in health care institutions. The graduate students will assess, design, implement, and evaluate a classroom or clinical instructional module under the direction of a selected nurse faculty educator. This course will provide an in-depth understanding of the nursing discipline, nursing practice, and the added pedagogical skills.

  • NURS 55703: Nursing Education Technology

    Credit Hours: 3

    This course builds on nursing education theory to provide the graduate student with the technological knowledge necessary to mentor, coach, and instruct students and nurses using online and classroom technologies. This course will introduce graduate nursing students to the technical aspects of teaching/learning. This course will also integrate a depth of understanding of the nursing discipline, nursing practice, and enhanced pedagogical skills, including preparation in curriculum design and development, teaching methodologies, educational needs assessment, and learner-centered theories and methods.

  • NURS 51803: Nursing Education Technology Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3

    Hours of Instruction: Lecture 15 & Practicum 90

    This course builds on the nursing education technology course to provide the graduate student with the technological knowledge necessary to mentor, coach, and instruct students and nurses using online and classroom technologies. This course provides an experiential immersion that is faculty-guided for applying and synthesizing the nurse educator role in academia or staff development in health care institutions. The graduate students will assess, design, implement, and evaluate a classroom or clinical instructional module under the direction of a selected nurse faculty mentor. This course will provide an in-depth 88 understanding of the nursing discipline, nursing practice, and the added pedagogical skills.

Nursing Executive Leadership and Administration

Ideal for:

  • nurse interested in nursing administration
  • advance practice nurse who would like to have a deeper understanding of the management side of practice
  • nurse leader ready to expand your knowledge regarding resource management (personnel, fiscal), informatics, strategic planning, and quality improvement

This two course badge has no on-campus component. All students seeking this badge will take Organizational Management, which provides the fundamental knowledge required for nurse administrators. The badge option then allows you the flexibility to select a second course that best meets your personal career needs.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in nursing and unencumbered license
  • NURS 53403: Organizational Management

    Credit Hours: 3

    This course provides the opportunity to examine the latest strategies for improving nursing leadership and management skills. This course offers coverage and practical management strategies for a wide range of workplace issues such as delegation, diversity, evidence-based practice, stress management, quality improvement, legal issues, and recruitment and retention. This course promotes an understanding of a detailed analysis of today’s nursing environment including problems of management in health care settings from a micro level (departmental/unit) and a macro level (organizational).

  • NURS 51303: Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3

    This course provides the opportunity to examine and practice appropriate use of technologies and integrate current and emerging technologies to enhance outcomes. This course will prepare students to educate health professionals, staff, patients, and caregivers about the principles related to safe and effective use of care and information technologies.

  • NURS 51503: Advanced Nursing Leadership and Roles

    Credit Hours: 3

    This course introduces leadership skills necessary for the ethical and critical decision making abilities of advanced nursing practice. The roles of advocate, leader, researcher, and policymaker are explored in relation to organization and systems based care. These skills will define graduate nursing by initiating and maintaining interdisciplinary relationships and communication, collaboration and civility within healthcare teams for coordination of care, delegation, negotiation and conflict resolution.

  • NURS 51703: Health Policy

    Credit Hours: 3

    This course introduces strategies for the student to effectively collaborate with stakeholders to promote access to care and health outcomes locally and globally through technology, economics, policy and sociocultural components.

  • NURS 50803: Healthcare Economics and Systems

    Credit Hours: 3

    This course will introduce the graduate student to the complexities of healthcare reimbursement and regulation. This course will require the graduate student to determine if the outcomes of standards of practice, performance, and competence have been met and maintained. This course will introduce graduates to reducing barriers, facilitate access to care, and improve health outcomes within micro and macro-systems of healthcare. This is a component of the graduate nursing core courses.