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Nursing Leadership and Administration Certificate

Advanced Certificate

NOTE: This is a post-graduate certificate accredited by and registered with New York State.

If you are a licensed nurse with a master’s degree in nursing who wants to move into a leadership role, this might be the certificate for you!

Roberts’ Post-Master’s Certificate in Nursing Leadership and Administration offers actively working nurses the opportunity to develop visionary leadership skills and gain new expertise that positively impacts your work environment.

Designed with flexibility to meet the needs of busy nursing professionals of all ages and experience, this time-shortened program may fulfill the education criteria for the ANCC Nurse Executive Certification exam.

Program Highlights

  • 4 courses
  • Offered online and asynchronous
  • Develop your visionary leadership skills and your impact on health care system improvement
  • Interact with caring full-time faculty and like-minded nursing classmates
  • Gain new expertise through an internship in your area of choice
  • Fulfill the education criteria for the Nurse Executive Certification Exam (click here for eligibility criteria)

Nursing Leadership and Administration Certificate Courses

Healthcare Finance Management

Human Resources, Ethics, Policy, and Law

Strategic Leadership in Healthcare

Internship in Healthcare Leadership & Administration

OPTIONAL COURSES

Optional: Informatics in Healthcare  

Optional: Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare Quality Initiatives 

Non-matriculated students are welcome to apply to take individual courses.

Admission Requirements

  1. Current license to practice as a registered professional nurse in the US or Canada
  2. Clinical experience as an RN at least equivalent to 2 years full time in the last 4 years
  3. Master’s Degree in Nursing from a regionally accredited institution
  4. Cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in both graduate and undergraduate programs
  5. Official transcript and course syllabi from all previous undergraduate and graduate institutions attended
  6. At least a B minus (B-) in a graduate-level research course
  7. Pre-admission interview and/or info. meeting
  8. Completion of the program application

Nurse Executive Certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

For more information, click here.

Questions?

Meet Your Enrollment Representative!

James Blake
Assistant Director of Admissions