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

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Description and Outcomes

If you are a registered nurse interested in expanding your knowledge of nursing administration and business practices to better meet the challenges within the health care environment, the Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Business Administration Dual Degree Option could help you pursue your professional goals. This dual degree program is designed to prepare you to pursue managerial positions and leadership roles in hospitals, community health, long-term care facilities, and other competitive health care business systems.

The curriculum is designed to address this through a portfolio of practical, resume-building projects that satisfy your intellectual curiosity and help build the knowledge, skills, and abilities to make sound business and management decisions that can be applied to health care organizations. Beyond these practical skills, the program is also designed to foster thought leadership, innovation, and corporate social responsibility in a global context.

Concentration

You will complete the executive leader concentration, which includes a clinical experience. The program's curriculum could help you prepare to sit for the Nurse Executive or the Nurse Executive, Advanced, certification examinations (depending on the level of leadership within your organization) provided by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. 

Program Length

The Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Business Administration Dual Degree Option consists of a minimum of 88 quarter credit hours. Upon successful completion of the program, you will be awarded the Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Business Administration degrees.

Program Outcomes

Master of Science in Nursing Program Outcomes

  1. Background for Practice from Sciences and Humanities: Integrate scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings.
  2. Organizational and Systems Leadership: Demonstrate ethical and critical decision-making leadership skills that result in effective working relationships and a systems perspective.
  3. Quality Improvement and Safety: Implement quality improvement principles within an organization using methods, tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality.
  4. Translating and Integrating Scholarship Into Practice: Apply research outcomes within the practice setting, resolve practice problems, work as a change agent, and disseminate results.
  5. Informatics and Health Care Technologies: Utilize patient-care and communication technologies to deliver and coordinate quality care.
  6. Health Policy and Advocacy: Employ policy that supports advocacy strategies to influence health and health care.
  7. Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes: Collaborate with interprofessional teams to improve patient and population health outcomes.
  8. Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving Health: Support broad, organizational, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts in the planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinical prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and aggregates/identified populations.
  9. Master’s-Level Nursing Practice: Integrate advanced levels of understanding of nursing and relevant sciences to influence health care outcomes for individuals, populations, or systems.
Executive Leader Outcomes
  1. Fiscal Responsibility and Human Resource Management: Encompass concepts of fiscal and human resources in designing quality care measures.
  2. Collaborative Practice: Develop collaborative relationships and partnerships that are interdisciplinary and aggregate-focused to improve the health care of populations.
  3. Creating and Managing Nursing Care Systems: Provide leadership in conceptualization, design, implementation, and evaluation of health care delivery systems across the health care continuum.

Master of Business Administration Program Outcomes

  1. Apply knowledge related to fundamental business processes to make effective business decisions in a global context.
  2. Integrate business knowledge to take well-reasoned action in diverse situations.
  3. Innovate to address business issues and opportunities in dynamic environments.
  4. Demonstrate the leadership necessary to accomplish business goals and maximize organizational performance.
  5. Evaluate the ethical and social implications of business decisions in a global context.

Professional Competencies

In addition to the discipline-specific outcomes, professional competencies are integrated throughout your academic program. You can review the professional competencies associated with your academic program in the Professional Competencies section of this Catalog.

Program Availability

For program availability, please refer to the U.S. State and Other Approvals section and Program Availability Information.

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Admissions Requirements

You must meet the following admissions requirements in addition to Purdue Global's general requirements and the general requirements of the School of Nursing.

If applying for admission, you must submit the following:

  1. A transcript, submitted prior to enrollment, indicating receipt of a bachelor's degree with an upper-level major in nursing and a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher from an accredited institution. Refer to the Admissions Requirements for more information on prior degree submission. If you have not completed a statistics course and a nursing research course with a grade of “C” or better as part of your bachelor's degree in nursing, you must complete them before enrollment in MN504 🌐 Scientific and Analytic Approaches to Advanced Evidence-Based Practice. If you choose to take the required statistics course at the University, you will have all course-level prerequisites waived.
  2. An approved criminal background check.
  3. A current, professional resume that details employment history including responsibilities and dates of employment.

Accelerated MBA Option

If you are a graduate of the University's Bachelor of Science in Business Administration program, are granted admission to the Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Business Administration Dual Degree Option, and meet the requirements for the accelerated MBA option, you will have the following courses waived:

Code Title Credits
GB518🌐 Financial Accounting Principles and Analysis4
GB520🌐 Strategic Human Resource Management4
GB530🌐 Marketing Management4
GB540🌐 Economics for Global Decision Makers4
GB550🌐 Financial Management4

Graduates of Purdue Global's Bachelor of Science in Nursing―RN-to-BSN

As a graduate of the University's Bachelor of Science in Nursing―RN-to-BSN program who enters the Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Business Administration Dual Degree Option, you may have already satisfied specific core requirements and will complete a condensed program of graduate study.

Progression Requirements

  1. You may not use transfer credit to replace MN501 🌐 Advanced Nursing Roles (unless you are a graduate of Purdue Global's Bachelor of Science in Nursing—RN-to-BSN program), GB500 Business Perspectives, or GB601 MBA Capstone. These courses must be completed at Purdue Global.
  2. You may not use transfer credit for any courses in the executive leader concentration, unless you have approval from the Dean of the School of Nursing.
  3. As a newly enrolled student, you may request to test out of GB512 🌐 Business Communications by passing an Assessment of Skills and Knowledge with a predetermined score. To register for an ASK, you must contact your Student Advisor at least 1 week prior to your scheduled start date. 
  4. This program requires you to complete traditional and module courses. See Course Types for more information. 
  5. In order to complete all degree requirements, the University may require you to switch academic calendars. At certain points in your program, you may be placed on an administrative leave of absence for a short period of time to facilitate your transition between academic calendars. When you are placed on administrative leave, you will have additional time off between courses and your academic standing with the University is not affected. 

Clinical Experiences

As part of the requirements for the Master of Science in Nursing program’s executive leader concentration, you will complete a clinical experience designed to provide the opportunity for application of theoretical knowledge while working with a mentor. 

Refer to the School of Nursing’s Progression Requirements section for additional requirements for clinical experiences.

Certification, State Board, and National Board Exams

Certain state certification and licensure boards have specific educational requirements for programs to lead to a license or certification that is a precondition for employment in a recognized occupation. Prospective and current students must review Purdue Global’s State Licensure and Certifications site to view program and state-specific licensure information.

Unless otherwise specified, Purdue Global's programs are not designed to meet any specific state’s licensure or certification requirements. Licensure-track programs may limit enrollment to students in certain states; please see Purdue Global’s Program Availability Information to determine enrollment eligibility.

You are responsible for understanding the requirements of optional certification exams. Such requirements may change during the course of your program. You are not automatically certified in any way upon program completion. Although certain programs are designed to prepare you to take various optional certification exams, Purdue Global cannot guarantee you will be eligible to take these exams or become certified. Your eligibility may depend on your work experience, completion of education and/or degree requirements, not having a criminal record, and meeting other certification requirements.

Upon completion of the executive leader concentration, you may be eligible to sit for the Nurse Executive or the Nurse Executive, Advanced, certification examinations depending on your meeting the eligibility requirements of the American Nurses Credentialing Center.