NURS 4010 - Nursing Leadership I

(2) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Successful completion of NURS 3010, NURS 3021, NURS 3031, NURS 3050 with a “C” or higher
Co-requisite: NURS 4000, NURS 4020, NURS 4050
This hybrid course provides a foundation in nursing leadership preparing students to provide care for diverse individual, families, and groups on a managerial and organizational level. Students will integrate knowledge and skills from previous courses in nursing and other disciplines with knowledge from leadership theory to understand issues in delivery of quality and safe health care. The course will emphasize skills of prioritization and delegation, intra-and-inter-professional communication, teamwork and collaboration, decision-making, ethical and legal issues, technology and informatics, advocacy, and conflict resolution in the delivery of care. The focus of this course is to develop a servant leadership approach to the delivery and improvement of health care. The professional portfolio will be reviewed in this course.