NUR 444A Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare

4 Credit(s)

This course focuses on development of leadership skills acquired by professional nurses, including networking delegation of responsibilities, facilitation of groups, leadership, case management, conflict resolution and collaboration within the interprofessional health care team. This course explores concepts of leadership/management, power, motivation, decision-making, change, budgeting and management skills related to the professional nursing role in the health care system. Focus is on use of outcome data to evaluate nursing care delivery systems and propose quality improvement initiatives. Four lecture hours per week. This is a required course for RN to BSN students.
Prerequisites: NtJR360A; NUR361; NUR409; NiJR439; NUR450.
Co-requisites: NUR445A.