Brenda G. Jackson, PhD, RN
E-mail: JacksonBG@uthscsa.edu
Phone: (210) 567-1987
Pager: TBA
Office: 2.644
Office Hours: Mon. 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Acute Nursing Care Department

1. Utilize selected theoretical frameworks to understand the relationship between human behavior and organizational effectiveness.
2. Analyze structural and functional elements of health care organizations and their nursing components.
3. Develop an understanding of the role of the nurse manager and various skills and strategies utilized by the effective nurse manager in practice.
4. Apply organizational science principles to selected administrative problems and contemporary influences related to organizations.
5. Analyze current research findings related to organizational behavior.

Class and on-line discussion of required reading: (24 points). In a cooperative learning environment, students will be prepared to engage in class discussion in response to weekly discussion questions related to required readings.

Critical Reading Assignments: (24 points). Four (4) one-page critical reading assignments (6 points each).  9/8, 9/15, 10/13, 10/20.

Administrative Practice Paper (35 points). Students will select a behavior, process or organizational structure issue of interest to them and of relevance to nursing administrative practice. Criteria for the paper are:

1. Description of the behavior, process, or organizational structure issue (4 points)
2. Description of the aggregate that is the unit for intervention (4 points)
3. Significance of the issue (2 points)
4. Background/historical origin (4 points)
5. Analysis of the evidence of the problem or issue based upon data, quantitative and/or qualitative
   (4 points)
6. Evaluation of current and previous interventions (5 points)
7. Theoretical perspective for recommended intervention(s) (4 points)
8. Recommendation for intervention(s) pertinent to administrative practice (5 points)
9. Written in professional style (spelling, grammar, sentence structure), APA format 5th edition,
   10 -15 pages in length, not including title page, references, and appendices (3 points).
   
   In the spirit of cooperative learning, students will meet with the faculty to discuss the proposed topic. . Unexcused later papers will be downgraded five percentage points the first day and one point per day thereafter. If students anticipate inability to meet the due date, at least one week earlier they must negotiate a later due date.  Paper is due 11/17.

Seminar Presentation. (17 points). Students will give a 15-minute presentation based on their paper. Dates are 12/01 or 12/08 .  Criteria for the presentation:

1. Distribution of a list of learner objectives, one reading, and two discussion questions, to students and faculty, and copies of readings at least one week before the presentation. (4 points)
2. Summary of the major points of the paper (6 points)
3. Generation of class participation in the 15-minute time limit for presentation (3 points).
4. Professional presentation (using questions, power point, transparencies, other (4 points)

Gibson, J., Ivancevich, J., & Donnelly, J., Jr. (2006). Organizations: Behavior, structure, processes (12^th ed .) Boston:              Irwin McGraw-Hill.

Tubbs, S. (2007). A Systems approach to small group interaction (9^th ed.). Boston: McGraw Hill.

Additional Resource:
Porter O' Grady, T. and Malloch, K. (2007). Quantum Leadership: a resource for health care innovation (2nd ed.).              Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.