title: Innovative educational strategies to prepare nurse executives for new leadership roles.
abstract: Distance education has grown over the last decades. As technology has improved, so has our ability to provide students with education options. Excelsior College has taken advantage of this digital age to bring together global nurse leaders and given them the opportunity participate self-paced learning at home. Excelsior is a leader in online education and now has expanded by offering masters courses with a specialty in clinical systems management and health care informatics to nurses worldwide.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 S. Damen, Room 110, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
authors.forename: Carole
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kenner
authors.forename: Ida M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Androwich
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Edwards
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000379:methods; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods; D003479:Curriculum; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000458:organization & administration; D007857:Leadership; D009518:New York; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D024802:Nurse's Role