Description
This course integrates core competencies for nurse executives to prepare the student for a role in nursing administration
emphasizing clinical outcomes management, care environment management and interprofessional collaboration. Team
coordination concepts including delegation, supervision, interdisciplinary care, group process, handling difficult people,
and conflict resolution are explored. Principles of healthcare systems and organizations including unit level healthcare
delivery/microsystems of care, complexity theory, and managing change theories are analyzed. Principles of quality
management, risk reduction, patient safety, and care management with focus on evidence-based practice to improve
client outcomes through clinical decision making, critical thinking, problem identification, and outcome measurement are
analyzed. Pre- or Co-requisite: NUR 583. Lecture: 3 units. (3 units)