There is a critical need for nursing leaders with advanced skill in using health information to promote effective patient care outcomes. Serious problems of underuse, overuse, and misuse of health care services are widespread. The well-known Institute of Medicine study “To Err is Human (1999)” highlighted the pressing need to reduce medical error and improve patient safety in America.

Nurses must be educationally prepared to develop sound models for the effective delivery of patient care. Graduates of our program will learn how to:

• Become a transformational leader committed to moving nursing forward
• Develop quality improvement tools and facilitate improvement activities
• Measure and manage outcomes and costs of interventions
• Foster evidenced-based practice
• Manage diverse provider and patient groups in traditional healthcare, primary care and non-traditional settings
• Improve nurse retention through coaching, preceptoring and mentoring