The Master of Science in Nursing courses are delivered online with the exception of two residency requirements for orientation to the program (1.5 days), as well as during NURS 503 Conflict course (3 days). The Master of Business Administration courses are delivered online.
Admission Requirements
- Students must be accepted to both the MSN and MBA programs.
- MSN requirement: a 3.0 GPA in undergraduate nursing courses plus 2 acceptable references
- MBA requirement: students have at least two years working experience and achieved satisfactory performance on the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT)
- Students without a background in business may take a prerequisite course (all offered by EMU) including coursework in accounting, finance, and economics.
Course Requirements
Semester Hours: Total of 56 SH (reduction of 17 SH in the dual degree)
Shared Courses Between the MBA Health Care Track and the MSN (9 SH)
- NURS 515 Health Care Delivery System (3 SH)
- NURS 516 Application of Legal & Ethical Principles to Health Care (3 SH)
- NURS 626 Managing in a Complex Environment (3 SH)
MSN Requirements (23 SH)
- NURS 501Conceptual Framework for Sacred Covenant (1 SH)
- NURS 503 Practice Skills for Conflict Transformation (3 SH)
- NURS 510 Historical, Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of Nursing (3 SH)
- NURS 511 Translational Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice (3 SH)
- NURS 512 Knowledge Development: Informatics, Epidemiology and Outcomes (3 SH)
- NURS 620 Safety, Risk Reduction, and Quality Care (4 SH)
- NURS 629 Instructional Methodologies Nurse Leaders (2 SH)
- NURS 630 Leadership Project (4 SH) (with the addition of an MBA faculty advising the project to ensure the presence of sustainability content)
MBA Requirements (24 SH)
OLS 510 Leadership & Management for the Common Good (3 SH)
OLS 515 Introduction to Leadership Studies (3 SH)
OLS 530 Organizational Behavior (3 SH)
OLS 540 Managerial Finance and Accounting I (3 SH)
- MBA 555 Human Resource Management or
OLS 665 Project Management and Grant Writing (3 SH) - MBA 629 Data Analytics (3 SH)
MBA 640 Managerial Finance and Accounting II (3 SH)
- MBA 650 Sustainable Organizations for the Common Good (3 SH)