NRSG 426 Nursing Leadership/Management
This course focuses on the development of the student in the role of a beginning nurse leader of a clinical practice discipline. The purpose is to provide the nursing student with the basic concepts and theories needed for nursing management and the crucial components of nursing leadership. The content is focused on skills that nurses need to manage care for groups of patients, manage care within the changing health care environments, manage resources for care, delegate and supervise the work of other licensed and unlicensed assistive personnel, and coordinate care with other health care disciplines. The purpose of the clinical experience is to provide the nursing student with application of skills that support the basic concepts and theories needed for effective management of client care.
Offered
Spring
Student Learning Outcomes
- Approach patient centered care of the individual as a biopsychosocial-spiritual being.
- Relate the dynamics of organization, leadership, and management to the role of the nurse leader.
- Develop leadership and management skills such as prioritization, delegation, critical thinking, time management, collaboration, and conflict resolution, and implement in the clinical setting.
- Support practice as a nursing leader by applying nursing research, evidence-based practice, and knowledge from the liberal arts in refining nursing practice.
- Identify external and internal forces that impact organizations and utilize leadership and management skills to promote quality healthcare in a safe environment.
- Recognize cultural diversity and integrate cultural knowledge in the clinical setting as a patient advocate.
- Understand and apply graduate quality and safety knowledge, skills, and attitudes (QSEN) patient care.
- Utilize critical thinking and clinical judgment in the application of the nursing process within the healthcare delivery system to attain, preserve, and promote optimal health.
- Demonstrate the application of the nursing process in planning/providing care for individuals & families.
- Apply principles of management/leadership in coordinating care for a group of patients.
- Collaborate with the health care team to provide safe, high-quality patient-centered healthcare.
- Synthesize knowledge of individuals, families, and communities into the practice of nursing.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills with health care team members.
- Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for development of professionalism by engaging in assessment of self and others.
- Exercise critical thinking and clinical judgment by demonstrating appropriate decision- making skills.
- Demonstrate professional/ethical conduct consistent with the Standards of Nursing Practice for the state you practice in and apply the ANA Code of ethics.
- Apply selected research findings and principles of management and leadership in the planning, implementing, and on-going evaluation of nursing care for a group of clients.
- Apply graduate quality and safety knowledge skills attitudes related to patient centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics in the clinical setting.
- Collaborate with health team members to assist individuals/families/communities/world toward optimal wellness as they vacillate on the health continuum.
- Apply nursing research, evidenced-based practice, and knowledge from the liberal arts in refining nursing practice.
- Utilize clinical judgement in the application of the nursing process to provide compassionate care throughout the lifespan and across various healthcare settings.
- Promote quality health care in a safe environment.
- Responsibly engage in unselfish service to humankind.
- Apply technology and information management tools to support safe and effective patient care.
- Synthesize knowledge from previous courses to formulate a plan of care managing a group of patients.