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NU 4960 - Nursing Leadership and Professional Orientation I

1 lecture hours 3 lab hours 2 credits
Course Description
This course is the first of a two-part, consecutive leadership series designed to assist students in the transition from college life to professional life. Theories and principles of professional practice, leadership, and change are applied to maximize optimum health for people and their environment. A Professional Practice Project is a cumulative project that spans the two-courses. (prereq: senior clinical placement)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• Identify leadership and management concepts that impact effective functioning of nurses in multidisciplinary groups (Level 4, Leadership)
• Implement relevant research findings and knowledge from the humanities and sciences into one’s Professional Practice Project (Level 4, Knowledge Development)
• Integrate knowledge gained from historical perspective into the application of change theory (Level 4, History and Knowledge Development)
• Apply change theory principles to health promotion, maintenance or restoration (Level 4, Health Concept)
• Establish a pattern of lifelong learning (Level 4, Lifelong Learning)
• Apply critical thinking skills to management and leadership situations (Level 4, Critical Thinking)
• Analyze the role of communication in effective group functioning (Level 4, Communication)
• Analyze the impact of power and persuasion on public policy and in health care systems (Level 4, Leadership)
• Apply principles of management and leadership to workplace situations (Level 4, Leadership)
Prerequisites by Topic
None appended.
Course Topics
• Professional Practice Project
• Planned Change
• Working with Committees and Other Work Groups
• Contemporary Health Issues in Government
• Issues Related to Professional Nursing Organizations
• Organizational Theory
• Principles of Leadership
• Philosophy and Mission of Organizations
• Quality Management and Risk Management
• Strategic Planning
• Conflict Resolution
Laboratory Topics
None appended
Coordinator
Josanne Wollenhaupt


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