2026-2027 Catalog 
    
    Jun 15, 2026  
2026-2027 Catalog

MBA - Part-Time (Online)/Health Systems Leadership, DNP


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The DNP/MBA dual degree program is a post-masters (MSN) Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program. The DNP/MBA program will include the core DNP courses shared with the current Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP), Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and Health Systems Leadership (HSL) tracks. In addition, the curriculum for the joint MBA will include current courses from the School of Management.

Program Learning Outcomes


Knowledge for Nursing Practice

The learner will integrate, translate, and apply established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences to form the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice and  the practice of professional nursing. 

Person-Centered Care

The learner will practice holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate person-centered care focused on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. 

Population Health

The learner will participate in collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health.

Scholarship for Nursing:

The learner will generate, synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.

Quality and Safety

The learner will employ established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science as core values of nursing practice and enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

Interprofessional Partnerships

The learner will demonstrate Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.

 

Systems-Based Practice

The learner will effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations, leading within complex systems of health care. 

Informatics and Healthcare Technologies

The learner will demonstrate the use of information and communication technologies and informatics processes to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services.

Professionalism

The learner will form and cultivate a sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.

Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development

The learner will participate in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.

Jesuit Values

The learner will demonstrate compassionate care for the whole person by integrating Jesuit values of cura personalis, persons for other, contemplatives in action, fostering a commitment to lifelong learning, social justice, solidarity with vulnerable populations, and ethical decision-making in their practice.

SONHP LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Combine knowledge in nursing, ethics, and the medical sciences to develop and evaluate practices and models of patient care delivery.
  • Develop and evaluate effective strategies for managing ethical dilemmas present across the health care, technology, and research fields.
  • Use analytic methods to design, implement, and evaluate best-practice models for patient care and care delivery.
  • Effectively develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to advance the field and systems of health care delivery.
  • Demonstrate leadership in the development and implementation of institutional, local, state, federal, and international health policy.
  • Advocate for social justice, equity, and ethical policies in health care.
  • Advance the effective use of healthcare information systems to ensure high-quality outcomes.
  • Effectively lead quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.
  • Effectively communicate and collaborate with health care teams in developing and implementing organizational and practice models, health policy, and standards of care.
  • Analyze and synthesize various data related to patient health information.
  • Conduct a comprehensive assessment of health in complex situations, incorporating diverse approaches to design, implement, and evaluate interventions.
  • Analyze the relationship among practical, organizational, population, fiscal, and policy issues to educate individuals and colleagues effectively.
  • Develop relationships and partnerships with patients and other professionals to facilitate optimal patient care outcomes.
  • Advance the mission and core values of the University of San Francisco
     

MBA LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Students will design business strategy by incorporating concepts from multiple functional areas
  • Students will develop a leadership communication style that is effective and persuasive
  • Students will exhibit strong teamwork skills as demonstrated through their ability to inspire collaboration and maximize collective abilities
  • Students will identify the ethical, environmental, and social implications of business issues and formulate appropriate responses
  • Students will challenge assumptions and establish a process to appraise competing perspectives
  • Students will interpret ambiguous information and formulate succinct solutions

Major Requirements (a minimum 64 units)


Post Masters Health Systems Leadership DNP-MBA Dual Degree

a minimum 64 units

33-43 NURS units

30 MBA units

13 Double Count

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