NU 4961 - Nursing Leadership I

• Apply critical thinking skills leadership, teams, quality, safety, and principles of change (Level 4, Critical Thinking)
• Analyze the role of communication, teamwork, and conflict resolution in effective team functioning (Level 4, Communication)
• Assume a professional role in partnership with other members of the health care team (Level 4, Professional Role)
• Analyze leadership and management concepts that impact effective functioning of nurses in multidisciplinary teams (Level 4, Professional Role)
• Investigate change management principles, theories, and quality improvement processes to address practice issues (Level 4, Professional Role)
• Synthesize evidence from best practice to support change and quality improvement processes in health care organizations (Level 4, Evidence-based Practice)

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• Nursing interventions to enhance client safety from a systems perspective
• Factors which impact the nurse/consumer relationship
• Building teams
• Types of organizational structures
• Examination of health care systems
• Factors impacting organizational culture
• Just culture
• Quality improvement
• Managing risk
• Leadership theories
• Managing your career
• Understanding the role of regulatory agencies
• Principles of change