NSG 300 Nursing Leadership

The goal of this course is to assist the student to distinguish the difference between management and leadership, and identify the characteristics of the leader which are most effective for creating change for the benefit of the patients and health care agency in which the nurse leader functions. Management, leadership, change and innovation theories are used to evaluate nurse leader roles across a variety of settings. Students will evaluate costs, quality of care, patient advocacy, resource management, excellence in practice, interdisciplinary, collaboration, communication, evaluation of outcomes and performance improvement.

Credits

3