Advanced Studies in Nursing Leadership: Online Certificate

Career Outlook: Organize and Innovate

With an online post-Master’s Nursing Leadership Certificate, you’ll gain the specialized knowledge foundation to take on managerial, administrator, and specialist roles. Nursing leaders, on average, earn a salary of $100,980. These positions are expected to grow by 18% into 2028, which is much faster than average¹.

Program Outcomes

You’ll complete this post-graduate Nursing Leadership Certificate ready to:

• Integrate the arts and sciences, including leadership and ethical principles, with nursing science as a foundation for decision-making within diverse situations, settings, and communities resulting in safe patient care, quality outcomes, and health promotion.
• Use critical reflection, innovation, and interprofessional collaboration to promote lifelong learning and continual improvement, integrate current evidence and inform policy.
• Incorporate current technologies to augment professional practice and scholarship.
• Employ leadership, management, and ethical foundations in pursuit of performance improvement, risk management, human resources, financial management, and strategic planning/management.

• Integrate contemporary national performance standards and professional recommendations related to organizational governance and policy formation.
• Facilitate provision of quality services through community engagement, knowledge of societal forces, and regional/national/global policy issues and initiatives.

Admission Requirements

To apply for admission, you must meet the following requirements:

• Completed application
• 3.0 minimum GPA

• Master’s degree in nursing from an accredited nursing program

• Résumé

• Two letters of recommendation from professional colleagues at the BSN level or higher

• Unencumbered RN license in the state in which you reside

• 2,000 hours of work experience

• Personal Statement (Writing sample)

Note: Approved background check and fingerprints required at the time of clinical courses.

Faculty

Learn innovative and adaptive leadership skills from the highest caliber Nursing Leaders in the classroom. From their extensive research in the field and real-world knowledge base, they will push you in the right direction as you develop your own leadership ethos and style.

With decades of experience in nursing education, research, and practice, the graduate nursing faculty are led by program director Doreen Rogers, DNS, RN and FNP coordinator Jennifer Klimek Yingling, Ph.D, RN, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, and Associate Professor of Nursing Cynthia Love Williams, DNS.

Cynthia Love-Williams, DNS, RN

Associate Professor of Nursing

Dr. Cynthia Love-Williams is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Utica University. She has worked in nursing education since 1996 in both associate and baccalaureate programs. Dr. Love-Williams’ educational background includes a baccalaureate degree from Mississippi University for Women, a master’s degree from Wright State University, and a doctoral degree from Russell Sage Graduate Schools.

Frequently Asked Questions

Advancing your life and career with an online degree comes with lots of questions, and we want to ensure your search for answers is effortless. If you have a question we haven’t covered, call (866) 295-3106 to speak with an enrollment counselor.

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