MSN in Leadership for Trauma Awareness & Resilience

Class Type:

Fully Online

Cost:

$620 per credit hour

Upcoming Start Dates:

August 2024

Program Options:

MS, Grad Certificate

Credit Hours

Months (Avg.)

This program allows students to explore their leadership skills recognizing the potential trauma that clients and staff have experienced. Having such an awareness, the nurse leader creates healthy work and care environments such that patients and staff can enhance their resilience. These skills are applicable for the nurse leader in a broad array of nursing roles within the diverse health care environment.

With the increase in traumatic experiences within health care in the past, coupled with the current Covid pandemic climate, students obtain skills and knowledge to respond effectively to patients, peers, and other staff who have been impacted by different traumatic events.

Course work throughout the program involves direct application to their current work setting. Further, students in their final semester implement a quality improvement initiative to improve this setting. Such assignments provide for understanding their health care context with broader and deeper views, while also transforming the health care environment.

The first four courses in this concentration are taken through the Trauma and Resilience in Healthcare Settings graduate certificate program.

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Why study trauma awareness and resilience at EMU?
- An interprofessional focus means you’ll study business, education, conflict transformation, and nursing.
- Our sacred covenant framework of nursing is based on faith and values, high professional standards, and bringing people to wholeness and healing.
- Small class sizes enhance community-building.
- Our program is primarily asynchronous online learning with some synchronous classes.
- In regards to trauma-awareness and resilience, EMU provides for highly skilled and knowledgeable faculty with a proven track record
- Students develop leadership skills while being mindful of what is just, culturally competent, respectful and sacred.
Career-enhancement

Any nurse in a leadership role in a health care, whether it is inpatient or outpatient, can benefit from this degree. Whether the role is patient-focused or staff/organizational focus, nurses in the MSN program practice as leaders in administrative, managerial, educational, and other roles.

You will obtain skills and knowledge to respond effectively to patients, peers, and other staff that have impacted by different traumatic events and make a difference in the your healthcare setting.

Curriculum

Core courses (with SH):

NURS 501 Introduction, Sacred Covenant Conceptual Framework (1 SH)
NURS 510 Historical, Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of Nursing (3 SH)
NURS 515 Health Care Delivery System (3 SH)
NURS 516 Application of Legal & Ethical Principles to Health Care Administration (3 SH)
NURS 512 Knowledge Development: Epidemiology and Informatics (3 SH)
NURS 628 Systems Approach to Organizational Behavior (3 SH)
NURS 511 Translational Scholarship for Evidenced Based Practice (3 SH)
NURS 620 Safety, Risk Reduction, and Quality Care (4 SH)
NURS 630 Leadership Project (4 SH)

(NOTE: NURS 511, 620, and 630 are to be taken sequentially in the final year of Nursing coursework as per policy)

Trauma Awareness and Resilience focused courses :

Take these courses from the Certificate program (12 credits accepted towards the MSN)

TRHS 541 Trauma, Restoration and Resilience in Healthcare Settings (3 SH)
TRHS 561 Neurobiology of Trauma (3 SH)
TRHS 571 Self-care and Resilience for Healthcare Providers (3 SH)
TRHS 621 Trauma-Informed Strategies for Healthcare Providers (3 SH)
TRHS 631 Research in Risk and Resilience (3 SH)