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 601 | Advanced Health Assessment | 3 |
| NRSG 602 | Adv Physio/Pathophysiology | 4 |
| NRSG 603 | Advanced Pharmacology I | 2 |
| NRSG 604 | Evidence Based Practice I | 3 |
| NRSG 606 | Statistical Applications ([optional]) | 3 |
| NRSG 608 | Design H C Delivery Systems | 3 |
| NRSG 609 | Advanced Nursing Leadership & Roles | 3 |
| NRSG 611 | Program Planning & Evaluation for Quality Improvement | 3 |
| NRSG 612 | Ethics, Law, and Policy for Advocacy in Healthcare | 3 |
| NRSG 613 | Finance & Budget H C Systems | 2 |
| NRSG 673 | Writing for Scholarly Projects | 2 |
| NRSG 508 | Clinical Leadership Practicum | 7 |
| NRSG 509 | Clinical Nurse Leader Lab I | 2 |
| NRSG 575 | Professional Paper and Project | 2 |
| NRSG 575 | Professional Paper and Project | 2 |
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.