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Nursing Leadership/Management Certificate

The complexity and constant changes in today's healthcare environment require transformational leadership knowledge and skills to enable nurses in leadership or management roles to be successful. The UW-Green Bay Nursing Certificate in Leadership/Management prepares registered nurses (RNs) for these challenges in settings across the healthcare spectrum.

The UW-Green Bay Nursing Leadership/Management certificate is available for BSN-prepared RNs in any healthcare setting who are seeking leadership or management positions or who are already working as a nurse leader or manager and want to enhance their skills. Students seeking the certificate complete four graduate courses, one each semester, that can seamlessly transfer into the MSN leadership and management degree.

What Will You Learn?

  • Strategies to motivate and lead staff
  • Financial management and Excel budgeting
  • Effects of legislative, economic, and policy on nursing and healthcare
  • Advances in nursing informatics 

Upon completion of the following four courses, the student will receive the Nursing Leadership/Management certificate.

Required Courses:
NURSING 741Theories of Organizational Behavior and Nursing Leadership3
NURSING 745Health Economics and Policy3
NURSING 760Informatics for Nursing Leaders3
NURSING 780Financial Management for Nurses3
Total Credits12