Loyola University Chicago

Specialty Offerings

• M.S.N. Degree
• Certificate

Overview

The Niehoff School of Nursing offers the Master of Science in Nursing degree in health systems management to prepare nurse leaders for 21st century health-care challenges. This major provides students with the skills and competencies that recognized nurse leaders in the field have identified as essential for success in the current health care system. Nurses must have the knowledge to lead in a new health-care system that can simultaneously incorporate modern technology, evidence-based decision making, information and outcomes management, along with nurses' core values of quality care.

An advanced practice degree in health systems management provides an individual with the tools necessary for this system redesign. This innovate master's program prepares nurse leaders by combining core nursing and administration concepts and theories with subspecialty preparation in either health-care informatics or outcomes performance management.

Health-Care Informatics students will learn how to:

• Transform data into information and health-care systems that guide clinical decision-making
• Contribute to the creation of electronic patient records
• Design systems to identify patient outcomes
• Design systems to provide more accurate information for cost of care and resource allocation
• Develop databases to represent the important outcomes of nursing practice

Outcomes Performance Management students will learn how to:

• Develop quality improvement tools and facilitate improvement activities
• Measure and manage outcomes and costs of intervention
• Foster evidence-based practice
• Manage diverse provider and patient groups in traditional health care, primary care and non-traditional settings
• Improve nurse retention through coaching, preceptoring and mentoring
   

Curriculum

The health systems management major requires 38 semester hours of study. Students preferring a general program plan select any nine semester hours from the specialty options offered. Those desiring to specialize in either health-care informatics or outcomes performance management select nine semester hours from that specialty.

*Offered by the Graduate School of Business

Location: Most courses are held at the Water Tower Campus on North Michigan Avenue and Loyola Medical Center campus in Maywood, Ill. Some courses are Web-based.

Program Prerequisites: Information Systems for Health-Care Management (GNUR 486) or equivalent competency.  A minimum of 2,000 hours nursing experience required prior to beginning clinical.

Certification: All health system management graduates will be able to sit for the A.N.C.C. certification exam in nursing administration. Those specializing in nursing informatics can sit for the A.N.C.C. certification in this specialty. Those specializing in outcomes performance management can be certified as a professional in health-care quality by the Health-Care Quality Certification Board of the National Association for Health-Care Quality.

Certificate

A 12 semester-hour certificate program in health-care informatics and in outcomes performance management is offered to nurses and other professionals. A baccalaureate degree is required. The course GNUR 486: Information Systems for Health-Care Management is a prerequisite for students without experience in data management. 

OUTCOMES PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE

*Offered by the Graduate School of Business

HEALTH-CARE INFORMATICS CERTIFICATE

*Offered by the Graduate School of Business
 

*This program has been funded by Health Resources and Services Administration grant #1 D09HP3142-01-00