Description
This course is designed to help students gain a basic understanding of the structure, function, and culture of healthcare delivery organizations and explore and focus on the components of nursing leadership situations within the health care delivery system. To better understand and prepare for the changing role of the professional nurse in complex and diverse health care settings, emphasis is placed on developing skills in critical thinking, decision-making, team building, communication, priority setting, interdisciplinary collaboration, and advocacy. Students will use nursing leadership and management theory as well as the basic and applied sciences and humanities from previous courses and will be encouraged to examine health care organizational cultures though the lens of “caring” and responsible leadership that is aimed at promoting client safety and quality improvement processes to achieve desired client, systems, and population outcomes.
Program