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Nursing Degree Programs

Univerity of Phoenix Nursing degree programs will prepare you to take advantage of growing demand in the medical and health care industries. Demand for health care professionals and professionals with nursing degree is expected to grow by 36 percent by the year 2010, with the need for nurse practitioners and other advanced practice registered nurses among the greatest. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Rapid changes in the business, regulation and technology of health care require a higher level of education from all health care professionals. To improve operational efficiency and quality of care, employers are demanding nurses and managers with current expertise. To help you excel in this dynamic field, University of Phoenix Online offers several programs geared to deliver accelerated online health care and online nursing degrees to adult professions.

Offered via the Internet, our accredited programs let you earn online health care and online nursing degrees in the most efficient way possible. You’ll attend class when and where you want – from home, at work, or while traveling. As part of your online health care and online nursing degree, you’ll study an up-to-date curriculum that addresses the critical needs of the health care industry. You’ll learn from the most qualified experts in the world; instructors with an average of 15 years experience who currently work in the fields they teach. Best of all, you can complete your online health care or online nursing degree in just 2 to 3 years. (Even sooner if you have qualifying credits or work experience.)

Get started on your online health care or online nursing degree today!

Undergraduate Nursing Degree Programs

Bachelor of Science in Health Care Services
Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Graduate Nursing Degree Programs

Master of Business Administration/Health Care Management
Master of Science in Nursing
Master of Science in Nursing/Master of Business Administration/Health Care Management

Bachelor of Science in Health Care Services
The BSHCS major is designed to integrate a foundation of general education and applied sciences with the expertise that prepares the graduate for management positions in health care. The BSHCS curriculum addresses the basic body of knowledge, understanding, and skills identified to be relevant to health care administration:

Structuring and positioning health organizations to achieve optimal performance.
Financial management of health organizations under alternative financing mechanisms.
Leadership, interpersonal and communications skills in managing human resources and health professionals in diverse organizational environments.
Managing information resources and collecting, analyzing and using business and health information in decision-making.
Statistical, quantitative and economic analysis in decision-making.
Legal and ethical analysis applied to business and clinical decision-making.
Organizational and governmental health policy formulation, implementation and effect.
Assessment and understanding of the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, and managing health risks and behaviors in diverse populations.
The development, organization, financing, performance and change of health systems in diverse communities drawing broadly on the social and behavioral sciences.
Business and health outcomes measurement, process/outcome relationships and methods for process improvement in health organizations.

Bachelor of Science in Nursing
One hallmark of the BSN program is that there is no testing of prior nursing knowledge if the RN is in good standing within the state of practice. The BSN program is designed to develop the professional knowledge and skills of working registered nurses.

The curriculum is built upon a foundation of biological, physical, and social sciences, which contribute to the science of nursing. The liberal arts components enhance the development of the intellectual, social, and cultural aspects of the professional nurse.

The program enhances the foundation in the biological, physical, and social sciences through an instructional program with behavioral objectives that concentrate on the development of the nurse’s role as caregiver, teacher, and manager of care. Utilizing a self-care framework, working registered nurses are prepared as generalists who are able to apply professional skills and knowledge to nursing, clients, and health care systems.

Master of Business Administration/Health Care Management
The MBA/HCM is designed to provide students with the business management skills needed to manage successfully in today’s health care delivery systems. The MBA/HCM program emphasizes the identification, analysis, and solution of complex management problems with a foundation of health care concepts and decision models that will support the variety of management roles that can be seen in today’s health care environment. The MBA/HCM specialization is based upon courses in health care organizations, health care finance, quality and data base management, health care infrastructure, and health care strategic management.

The MBA/HCM develops students for the role managers play in defining business problems, assessing information, considering alternatives, and choosing the best solution. Imagine the manager as the hub of a wheel. From the hub radiate spokes, each representing a specific discipline, such as finance, law, marketing, operations, information systems, etc. Each of these “spokes” generates inputs for the manager to assess and incorporate into the decision-making process. The manager is a critical user of these inputs in making the decision. Although generally not the original producer of the information, the manager must be able to assess the validity and reliability of the information in building a business case for the decision.

To prepare students for the decision-making role, the MBA/HCM has been designed to introduce the theory or principles that frame a wide range of problems or issues in each of the courses. The most current techniques or tools are applied to these theories to allow students to practice making decisions to solve a wide range of problems.

Master of Science in Nursing
The University of Phoenix MSN nursing degree program is designed to develop and enhance the knowledge and skills of registered nurses. It is also designed for those nurses who want to pursue more advanced positions in today’s challenging health care environment. The program blends nursing theory with advanced practice concepts necessary to successfully work within the structure, culture, and mission of any size health care organization or educational setting.

The MSN program consists of three major areas: the core, the major, and the cognate. The core incorporates the major foci of a Master of Science in Nursing degree: the theory of Nursing, ethical Nursing issues, and the influence of Nursing research on the advanced practice of Nursing. The major includes advanced course work in Nursing: management of families and aggregates, administration, and education. The cognate includes course work concerning today’s health care environment: health care infrastructure, health care finance and data-based decision making.

Master of Science in Nursing/Master of Business Administration/Health Care Management
The University of Phoenix MSN/MBA/HCM nursing program is designed to provide nurses with a unique blend of advanced nursing and business management skills needed to manage today’s innovative health care delivery systems. The program combines essentials from both degree programs to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to enhance and support patient services. The MBA/HCM program emphasizes the identification, analysis, and solution of complex management problems that require technical understanding and balanced decision making. Although a functional knowledge of accounting, finance, and management underlies the program, equal attention is given to the development of report writing, oral reporting, and group process skills.

Students develop additional expertise in the solution of persistent management problems through the completion of an applied management science project, which relates the student’s professional interests or responsibilities to the goal of improved managerial functioning. The applied management science project, therefore, serves not only to provide a vehicle for the application of theory to practice, but also serves to demonstrate that MBA/HCM candidate can perform in a variety of sophisticated management roles in a health care environment with the confidence and self-discipline expected of the MBA/HCM program graduate.

The MSN program is designed to develop and enhance the knowledge and skill of registered nurses. It is also designed for those nurses who want to pursue more advanced positions in today’s challenging health care environment. The program blends nursing theory with advanced practice concepts necessary to successfully work within the structure, culture, and mission of any size health care organization or educational setting.