Master Nursing Science in Health Management

Course Description

The Master of Science in Nursing with a specialization in Health Management aims to develop nursing professionals with advanced technical skills, a strong sense of professional ethics, and a commitment to social responsibility. The program is designed to update and deepen participants’ knowledge, empowering them to contribute to the identification and resolution of health, management, and education challenges, thereby enhancing their professional and research capabilities.

The Master’s in Nursing Science with a focus on Health Management provides a comprehensive curriculum, equipping professionals in the field with tools and concepts to enhance their education, refine personal and professional skills, and contribute to achieving institutional objectives in response to changes in both external and internal healthcare environments. This is achieved through theoretical knowledge, practical case analyses, and exercises enabling candidates to advance their understanding of nursing science across its primary areas of application.

The program serves as a catalyst for a strategic transformation, empowering professionals to ethically and humanistically manage their teams. The Master’s promotes individual and collective knowledge through a training strategy centered on activities geared towards solving practical cases and projects.

Addressing a paradigmatic gap, the Master’s aims to equip students with a contemporary level of strategic thinking, enabling them to confront the unexpected, accurately identify problems, and provide more effective solutions.

The program strives for a holistic understanding of nursing science, management, humanization, and education by fostering critical thinking to address problems. This directs nurses towards efficiency and performance in processes associated with their work, consolidating their development and professional practice to provide optimal service to patients and healthcare service users.

Course Modules:

• Nursing Science
• Psychosocial Aspects of Aging
• Nursing Sciences, Quality, and Accreditation Processes
• Health Education
• Evidence-Based Nursing
• Mental Health Nursing
• Family and Community Nursing
• Concepts, Theories, and Models in Nursing
• Ethical Foundations of Bioethics
• Foundations of Humanization and Dehumanization in Health
• Helping Relationship
• Health Services Management
• Strategic HR Management
• Performance Evaluation and Competency Management
• Organizational Structure and Change
• Conflict Resolution/Transformation in the Healthcare Field
• Interpersonal Communication Techniques
• Team Leadership Techniques
• Stress and Burnout Syndrome
• Scientific Research Methodology
• Epidemiology I
• Research Seminar I
• Research Seminar II
• Internships
• Master’s Final Project