M.N. in Clinical Nurse Leader

https://www.montana.edu/academics/nursing-mn-graduate/

The focus of the MN degree (Clinical Nurse Leader, CNL) is to prepare graduates with advanced leadership skills to be applied in the healthcare delivery system across a wide range of settings. Functional roles of the CNL include client advocacy, team manager, information manager, outcomes manager, systems analyst/risk anticipator, educator, and active professional. Graduates will be eligible for national CNL certification. Students apply to the Graduate School for acceptance into the MN programs on a rolling basis. 

Program Learning Outcomes

  • Evaluate, integrate, translate, and apply evidence from nursing science and other disciplines in the delivery of care.
  • Create, communicate, and evaluate person-centered care that includes holistic, individualized, just, culturally aware, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based and developmentally appropriate.
  • Analyze current population health gaps and create and evaluate cost-effective, evidence-based interventions to meet the needs of the target population.
  • Advance the scholarship of nursing through the integration of best evidence and ethical conduct of scholarly activities.
  • Employ improvement science to ensure system effectiveness for safe, person-centered care within a physically, psychologically, secure, and just environment.
  • Collaborate across professions and with other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
  • Coordinate the resources of the complex healthcare system to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations.
  • Use information and communication technology to anticipate, manage and improve healthcare in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
  • Model a sustainable professional identity of accountability, ethical comportment, and collaborative disposition.
  • Participate in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being; students will contribute to life-long learning; and students will support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.
NRSG 601Advanced Health Assessment3
NRSG 602Adv Physio/Pathophysiology4
NRSG 603Advanced Pharmacology I2
NRSG 604Evidence Based Practice I3
NRSG 606Statistical Applications ([optional])3
NRSG 608Design H C Delivery Systems3
NRSG 609Advanced Nursing Leadership & Roles3
NRSG 611Program Planning & Evaluation for Quality Improvement3
NRSG 612Ethics, Law, and Policy for Advocacy in Healthcare3
NRSG 613Finance & Budget H C Systems2
NRSG 673Writing for Scholarly Projects2
NRSG 508Clinical Leadership Practicum7
NRSG 509Clinical Nurse Leader Lab I2
NRSG 575Professional Paper and Project2
NRSG 575Professional Paper and Project2

MN Degree (CNL): 41 credits required.


Professional Project

Each student completes and defends a professional project developed in collaboration with a faculty advisor and committee over a two-semester course model. Examples of exciting and innovative student projects include: development of mental health outreach programs to the rural elderly; examination of alternative health practices for healing; establishment of pediatric cancer support groups for the rural client; and development of a school based clinic.