Spring 2027

Leadership Foundations: the Discipline of Nursing

Examines nursing's substantive foundations, including scientific/theoretical underpinnings, scholarliness, and leadership for population health and systems innovation.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Compare and contrast the conceptual/philosophical, scientific, and ethical foundations of the discipline.

  • Identify nursing phenomena of concern relevant to scholarship in advanced nursing practice in systems innovation and leadership or population health.

  • Analyze theoretical foundations of nursing care.

  • Evaluate definitions of scholarship, characteristics of scholars, and strategies for scholarliness in nursing.

  • Identify the relevance of reflection, experience, and nursing leadership in collaboration with other health professions to meet the goals of nursing.

  • Identify opportunities for DNP-educated advanced practice nurses prepared in systems innovations and leadership and population health to develop theoretically-informed practice approaches based on nursing’s values and foundations.

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  • Graduate/professional standing
NURSING 709

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  • Graduate/professional standing

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Scientific and theoretical underpinnings of nursing.
  • Hallmarks of scholarliness in nursing.
  • Nursing leadership and collaboration.
  • Foundations for nursing leadership and population health.

Skills

  • Comparing and contrasting conceptual, philosophical, scientific, and ethical foundations of nursing.
  • Analyzing theoretical foundations of nursing care.
  • Developing foundational knowledge, skills, and attitudes for nursing leadership and population health.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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