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May 06, 2024
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NU 6310 - Nurse Leader and Manager: Managing Health Care Delivery3 lecture hours 2 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
This course will focus the professional nurse on the concepts of leader, manager and follower. The student will apply knowledge and theoretical frameworks within systems to foster mentoring, empowerment and influence of staff and collaboration in patient care delivery. There will be opportunity to adapt own leadership style to the needs of an organization. The student will understand and appreciate the role of nurse leader in creating a safe, healthy work environment for nursing staff, health care consumer and the health care team. (prereq: NU 6300 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• Maintain knowledge of current nursing practice and the roles and functions of the patient care team members
• Analyze differences in communication style preferences among patients and families, advanced practice nurses and other members of the health care team.
• Continuously plan for improvement in use of self in effective team development and functioning
• Appreciate nursing’s unique contribution to patient outcomes
• Identify and illustrate standards of excellence in health care (magnet qualities, pathway to excellence)
• Create and communicate a shared vision of care delivery
• Appreciate the essential role of the manager in creating healthy work environment
• Describe factors that create a just culture and a culture of safety
• Participate in the design and implementation of new models of care delivery and coordination
• Role model lifelong learning, including clinical subjects such as disease processes, pharmaceuticals and clinical technology
Course Topics
• Patient and family centered care
• Creating a just culture in a work environment
• Health care consumers; Patient satisfaction
• Staff mix: APRNs, Front line workers, Nurse Navigators
• Transforming care at the bedside (TCAB)
• Home care/Community care/Telehealth
• Shared Governance
• Health communication
• Health literacy
• Disaster nursing (FEMA)
• Clinical programs that improve patient satisfaction, control costs, improve patient care and workflow
• Case management
• Elevating staff and healthcare delivery
• Leading with vision
• Coaching/Staff
• Networking
• Unit policy and procedures (admission, treatment, length of stay)
Laboratory Topics
No laboratory topics appended
Coordinator
Josie Wollenhaupt
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