About the Nursing Administration Specialization

The Nursing Administration Specialization in the MSA has been developed to address the critical need for nurses qualified to work on the administrative side of health care. There is great concern both regionally and nationally over serious shortfalls in the nursing workforce due to the fact that graduation rates for students from nursing administration programs is not keeping up with retirements and with the rate of departure of nurses from jobs in health care. This issue is especially acute in the area of nursing administration. While the aging of the U.S. population and demographic trends for Northwest Florida clearly predict increased use of health care services regionally, these same changes predict greater numbers of retirements and departures among existing health care professionals, including nurses. The Nursing track in the MSA will help provide a workforce in nursing prepared to assume administrative responsibilities in areas of health care that require a strong background in the clinical sciences and a solid knowledge base in business.

For more information on core and specilization requirements, please visit our Online UWF Catalog (PDF).

Student Learning Outcomes

• Successfully design, implement, and administer databases.
• Apply concepts of client/server database technologies.
• Apply database skills to specific problems domains (e.g., organizational databases, medical field, etc.).
• Identify and describe tools to work with very large databases.
• Employ a variety of database tools and techniques to analyze and re-engineer database systems in organizations.
• Evaluate and use toools to work with very large databases.
• Produce effective and professional technical written communications.
• Communicate pertinent issues of databases through a variety of media, both oral and written, and use appropriate technologies to produce communications.
• Conceive, plan, and implement a significant database.
• Collaborate with team members and defend outcomes at the end of the project timeline.

Admissions Requirements

The Nursing Administration Specialization requirements:

• GRE score prior to admission
• A letter of intent
• Three letters of professional reference

In addition to general university minimum standards of admissions to graduate study, the MSA/DBA specialization requires an undergraduate degree from an accredited institution in a related field, submission of your college transcript and scores on the GRE prior to admission, a letter of intent and three letters of reference including one from an employer and one from a former college professor. International students must take the TOEFL and submit passing scores according to University standards. For more specific graduate admissions requirements, visit the Online UWF Catalog.

Course Descriptions

Course descriptions are available from the UWF catalog:http://www.uwf.edu/catalog/crs.htm and Core Courses.

Contact Us

Dr. Diane Gardner
MSA/Nursing Coordinator
Department of Nursing
West Florida Hospital
Pensacola, Florida 32514
Voice: 850.494-3801
Email: dgardner@uwf.edu