Clinical issues in a nursing administration graduate program

Should clinical nursing content be part of the preparation of future nurse executives? This issue has been debated by nursing administrators and nursing educators; many advocate some type of clinical knowledge base for nurse executives. In the graduate program in Nursing Administration at the State University of New York at Buffalo, we have developed a course that focuses on the administrative implications of current clinical issues. This course enables future nurse executives to explore clinical nursing problems and plan appropriate administrative strategies for confronting these problems.