NUR415 Leadership & Management for the New Nurse

Catalog description

This nursing course focuses on transformational leadership and management principles that guide professional nursing across practice settings. Leadership theories and concepts are emphasized, including the identification of key organizational structures, mission, and cultures. Students will examine professional communications and teamwork, collaboration and conflict resolution, delegation and supervision, workforce motivation, and managing and leading change. This course provides a clinical experience by interviewing a nurse leader, identifying a leadership issue in the workplace, and planning to help improve the workplace. This course also addresses health care delivery structure and economics, and the integration of ethical and legal aspects of nursing leadership.