Professional Nursing Leadership Clinical Immersion l

Catalog description

This course provides students both a didactic and clinical immersion opportunity to experience the professional nursing leadership role and to apply knowledge learned in the graduate and advanced nursing science core and the Professional Nursing Leadership specialty courses. Principles and concepts related to health care financing, complexity and change theories, socioeconomic influences upon health care and group process are included. Concepts related to the use of coaching and mentoring, technology, health care information systems, teaching and learning, quality, and safety issues are also integrated. The emphasis is on the development of a teaching and learning, quality and safety initiatives, and incorporating intra and inter-professional practice outcomes. Students design and plan an intra and inter-professional practice improvement project that is culturally competent, and evidence-based for Primary Health Care (PHC). Ethical and legal implications for practice improvement initiatives are discussed.