Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Business Administration Dual Degree

Combine your nursing leadership with a working knowledge of business and managerial skills to offer expertise within a wide range of healthcare settings.

You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of advanced nursing practice and critical- thinking skills needed to solve problems, identify opportunities and make dependable decisions within healthcare settings using business concepts.

Curriculum

What You’ll Learn

The 54-hour dual MSN/MBA degree program is designed for nurse professionals seeking a comprehensive understanding of advanced nursing practice and the critical thinking skills needed to solve problems, identify opportunities and make dependable decisions within health settings using the business concepts embodied in the disciplines of finance, economics, operations, marketing and management.

Additional information, including specific courses and their corresponding credit hours, is available in the Academic Catalog.

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Available Programs

Master of Science in Nursing/Master of Business Administration Dual Degree

Combine your nursing leadership with a working knowledge of business and managerial skills to offer expertise within a wide range of healthcare settings. The MSN/MBA dual degree is offered in conjunction with the Godbold College of Business. The curriculum consists of 54 credit hours, including 24 credit hours of nursing courses and 30 credit hours of business courses. Students may choose to start in August or January.

Outcomes

What You’ll Do

In the dual MSN/MBA program, you will achieve the learning outcomes for each of the degree programs.

In the MSN program, you will learn to:

• Integrate interdisciplinary research and strategies to improve nursing practice, promote health, and prevent disease.
• Analyze current issues impacting diverse client populations, health care, and nursing practice, with an emphasis on identifying and implementing strategies for enhancement or resolution.
• Apply knowledge, concepts, strategies, and evidence-based research findings to enhance nursing across the continuum of healthcare settings.
• Synthesize interdisciplinary knowledge to facilitate application in an advanced specialty role.
• Professionally collaborate and communicate within the healthcare environment to foster environments for improved outcomes.
• Demonstrate achievement of role specific competencies for the advanced specialty role.

In the MBA program, you will learn to:

• Adapt yourself in advanced professional career positions in business, government, and other areas of human endeavor where organizational, managerial, and analytical skills in business administration are vital for success;
• Acquire new advanced managerial skills in business administration that require advanced knowledge of computerized technology applications in business; and
• Respond to complex changes in business administration in a dynamic, global marketplace and demonstrate high Christian ethical standards in their place of work.