Strategic and Change Management for Quality Outcomes for Nurse Leaders.

Catalog description

Semester course; 2 lecture hours. 2 credits. Prerequisite: NURS 613 . This course introduces strategic management principles, models and tools useful for implementing sustainable organizational change. Students will be able to align organizational and nursing-specific mission, vision and goals setting a strategic direction. Students gain applied practice in select strategic and change-management processes in real-world nursing contexts and discuss how these processes optimize or hinder quality patient care outcomes. Finally the course explores factors that facilitate sustaining a strategic direction and how sustainability builds markers of superior performance and quality.