The Nursing Administration (ADMN) concentration prepares nurses with a core inclusive of finance, budgeting, marketing, and analytics for healthcare strategy. The nurse acquires critical leadership, communication, health policy, and cultural competency skills that prepare them for complex healthcare nursing administrative positions locally, nationally, and globally.
The ADMN concentration post-baccalaureate option can be completed in 17-months and requires 36 semester hours of graduate course work including a minimum of 360 clinical hours. Clinical courses have a 1:4 credit hour to clinical hour ratio resulting in 360 clock hours for the program. Students also complete a directed scholarly inquiry. This concentration is offered online. Students may enter into the ADMN program in any semester and can be completed either full time or part time. Upon acceptance to the program, an individualized plan of study will be developed with the Nursing Administration concentration director to ensure all pre or corequisites of courses are met for timely completion of the program.
The Lincoln Memorial University’s Nursing Administration Graduate Certificate prepares nurses with a core inclusive of leadership concepts such as finance, budgeting, human resource, and analytics for healthcare strategy. The nurse acquires critical leadership, communication, health policy, and cultural competency that empowers them for healthcare nursing administrative positions. The three courses (12 credit hours) required for the certificate are:
NURS 521 Human Resource Management and Business Strategy - 4 credit hours
NURS 533 Finance and Budget for Strategic Decision Making - 4 credit hours
NURS 579 Leadership Synthesis for the Nursing Administrator - 4 credit hours
After acceptance into the nursing administration graduate certificate program, an individualized plan of study will be developed with the nursing administration concentration director to ensure all pre or corequisites of the courses are met along with timely completion of the certificate.