Leadership and Professional Role Development

Catalog description

This course provides the student with theoretical principles and skills to develop her/his professional leadership role within complex health care systems. The nursing profession, advanced nursing practice roles, leadership responsibilities of nurses in advanced practice roles, the requirements for, and regulation of these roles are discussed. The importance of working effectively with inter-professional teams to deliver health care is emphasized. The professional expectation that the master's prepared nurse exerts leadership not only within the profession, but also in the health care delivery system is critical to professional role development.