Syllabus
Course Description
This course focuses on the nurse’s role as a leader/manager in a healthcare setting. Emphasis is placed on the principles of leadership and how they are used to define the nurse’s management style. Concurrent enrollment in NURS 151L is required.
Standards
This course meets the AACN Essentials of Baccalaureate’s Education for Professional Nursing Practice (2010). In addition the course incorporates the American Nurses Association Scope and Standards for Nurse Administrators (2009).
Course Objectives
At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Analyze various leadership and management styles and apply them to nursing practice
2. Analyze the different types of power and their application to strategies used in managing and leading.
3. Evaluate the internal and external factors that influence nurse leadership.
4. Identify responsibilities of the nurse leader when planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling, and making decisions.
5. Analyze legal issues involved in nursing leadership and management.
6. Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing leaders in health care settings.
7. Evaluate the nurse leader’s role in defining and applying the principles of continuous quality improvement.
8. Incorporate current research on management and leadership into nursing leadership.
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Teaching/Learning Strategies
Students are assigned to preceptors at healthcare agencies that deliver health care and provide a milieu in which the student can address the above clinical objectives for 64 clinical hours. A variety of teaching methods will be provided such as, participatory observation, the application of management skills, the coordination of client care.
Required Text
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association (6th ed). Washington, DC: Author.
Huber, C. (2010). Leadership and nursing
This course focuses on the nurse’s role as a leader/manager in a healthcare setting. Emphasis is placed on the principles of leadership and how they are used to define the nurse’s management style. Concurrent enrollment in NURS 151L is required.
Standards
This course meets the AACN Essentials of Baccalaureate’s Education for Professional Nursing Practice (2010). In addition the course incorporates the American Nurses Association Scope and Standards for Nurse Administrators (2009).
Course Objectives
At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Analyze various leadership and management styles and apply them to nursing practice
2. Analyze the different types of power and their application to strategies used in managing and leading.
3. Evaluate the internal and external factors that influence nurse leadership.
4. Identify responsibilities of the nurse leader when planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling, and making decisions.
5. Analyze legal issues involved in nursing leadership and management.
6. Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing leaders in health care settings.
7. Evaluate the nurse leader’s role in defining and applying the principles of continuous quality improvement.
8. Incorporate current research on management and leadership into nursing leadership.
1
Teaching/Learning Strategies
Students are assigned to preceptors at healthcare agencies that deliver health care and provide a milieu in which the student can address the above clinical objectives for 64 clinical hours. A variety of teaching methods will be provided such as, participatory observation, the application of management skills, the coordination of client care.
Required Text
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association (6th ed). Washington, DC: Author.
Huber, C. (2010). Leadership and nursing