LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

NURSING 448

Learning is centered on advancing knowledge of professional attributes necessary in healthcare settings. Expand the understanding of core concepts related to ethics, advocacy, safe therapeutic care, technology, and health informatics at a systems-level to influence care and outcomes. Broaden the understanding of nursing's role in the healthcare delivery system regarding quality improvement, emergency preparedness, care coordination, and palliation.

NURSING 772

Provides healthcare leaders with the knowledge, skills, and competencies to improve patient, organization and health system outcomes. Effective organizational and systems leadership will help to eliminate health disparities and promote patient safety and excellence in practice. Includes the analysis, integration, and application of principles of leadership and management to healthcare organizations and to population-based efforts across the healthcare delivery system including a basic introduction to finance. Emphasis is placed on the practical skills needed to succeed as leaders in today's complex environments.

NURSING 714

Focuses on health innovation and leadership, integrating systems thinking and relevant theories to advance innovation and achieve sustainable change in contemporary health settings. Leaders apply and synthesize theories of leadership, innovation, informatics, and business concepts to complex healthcare issues to improve outcomes. Utilizes current and emerging issues, theories, and case studies to explore attributes of innovative leaders, emerging models of care, innovation models, design and adoption, mergers and affiliations in healthcare, and entrepreneurship.

NURSING 709

Examination of the substantive foundations of the discipline of nursing from a broad range of perspectives and domains of knowledge. The emphasis is on the identification and analysis of phenomena of concern to nursing, scientific and theoretical underpinnings of the discipline, the centrality of health and environment, hallmarks of scholarliness, and nursing leadership and collaboration to actualize the goals of nursing. Provides a foundational knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for nursing leadership and population health.

NURSING 704

Transition and expansion of leadership role for advanced practice. Emphasis on the development of effective, ethical leadership styles; interpretation of legal and professional requirements and regulations; examination of the ethics, values, beliefs, and norms of decision-making in interdisciplinary, collaborative practice.