HEALTH SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION PRACTICUM II

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 721

Fosters advanced practice competencies and deeper understandings of collaborative practice in population health. Employ structured systems thinking, stakeholder engagement, and interdisciplinary leadership to investigate and address complex issues in population health. Advanced practice competencies to be developed include: structured approaches to systems thinking, community engagement, collaborative leadership, responsive communication, teamwork, multidisciplinary program planning, cross-sector collaboration, and collective impact.

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 712

An opportunity to explore and analyze healthcare systems including practical skills in leading teams. An individualized planned practicum provides an opportunity to explore the leader roles (multiple settings) within the context of an administrative issues. Emphasis is on clinical engagement in management projects requiring critical assessment, design, planning, intervention, and evaluation activities using theoretical models and management tools. The focus is on the advanced systems analysis and design of programs and services within an organization/community setting.

NURSING 830

Expand and strengthen leadership skills, enhance understanding of specialized advanced practice role including strategic planning and resource stewardship. Collaborate with course faculty and designated preceptors to establish and achieve individualized learning goals that directly pertain to specialty roles in advanced nursing practice.