Apr 20, 2024  
2023-2024 Graduate Academic Catalog 
    
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NUR 6150 - Facilitating Change in Complex Health Care Systems

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course focuses on change in complex organizations. Students will learn a variety of leadership, executive, and organizational intervention strategies that can begin to disrupt a system’s equilibrium and move the system toward a new desired state. Students will analyze, critique, and investigate system-wide initiatives that improve delivery and outcomes in client care. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Examine the dynamics of group and team behavior
  • Describe and diagnose the antecedents of employee motivation theories
  • Explain and diagnose the sources of work group and team effectiveness
  • Discuss and evaluate the characteristics of effective change leadership and influence
  • Explain and evaluate how contextual variables influence employee behavior, organizational effectiveness, and successful organizational change
  • Describe the role culture plays in organizational performance
  • Evaluate the implications for the ethical practice of management and leadership
  • Analyze, critique, and investigate system-wide initiatives that improve delivery and outcomes in client care

Prerequisites by Topic
  • None

Course Topics
  • Advanced leadership models 
  • Organizational culture and invisible architecture
  • Organizational values (ethics)
  • Contemporary leadership theories
  • Change theories
  • Team engagement for change
  • Human motivation
  • Organizational roles
  • Organizational decisions
  • Magnet recognition
  • Shared governance
  • Strategic planning and evaluation
  • Organizational committees
  • Team performance

Coordinator
Dr. Victoria Carlson Oehlers



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