NURS 4312 The Nurse as Professional: Leadership (RN’s Only)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course focuses on the role of the professional nurse as a leader and as a manager in the collaborative design and delivery of customized health care for patients. Traditional management theories and practices are built upon, including the organization, planning, staffing, directing and controlling of various resources in diverse health care systems. A strong emphasis is placed on the development of transformational leadership. The clinical practicum provides the student with the opportunity to partner with leaders and managers to explore and influence health care delivery system issues that effect quality of care. (This course builds on the management theory and experience RN Flex students have had in their ADN and Diploma Programs).

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. Apply leadership and management theories and nursing processes to patient care across the life span.
   
2. Participate as leadership and management partners within health care delivery systems in customized therapeutic care processes.
   
3. Apply various communication skills and processes in leading and managing of quality care delivery in professional practice.
   
4. Demonstrate critical thinking as the basis for leadership and management decisions in quality care delivery in professional practice.
   
5. Apply research findings to lead and manage customized care.
   
6. Demonstrate the leadership and management ability necessary to assure and facilitate collaborative relationships with patients.
   
7. Recognize the legal and ethical implications of leadership and management decisions and their relevance to professional standards.
   
8. Recognize the leadership and management role in facilitating professional development in self and others.