LEADERSHIP IN THE PROFESSION OF NURSING

NURSING 325

Focuses on advancing knowledge of professional attributes and core competencies in the role of a nurse and how they are used in complex care settings. Gain an understanding of concepts of leadership, ethics, and advocacy. Broaden your understanding of nursing's role in the health care delivery system regarding quality improvement, 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 315

Focuses on professional nursing attributes and interactions essential to professional competence. Study concepts that allow for providing care unique to an individual, family, community, and systems, and to the context in which they live. Concepts related to the health care delivery system are included to provide a foundation for beginning nursing practice. Knowledge from sciences, social studies, and humanities education is integrated into nursing practice and builds foundational knowledge of the science of nursing.

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.