NURS 2520 Semester 4 Leadership

Course Information

Pre/Corequisites

Prerequisite: Successfully complete all Semester 3 Courses in order to advance to Semester 4 courses

Institutional Core Competencies

• Cultural Competence - Students will be able to demonstrate an attitude of personal curiosity, a rising knowledge of cultures, and an evolving range of skills for living and working among others with other worldviews and ways of life.
• Communication - Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate and effective interactions with others to achieve their personal, academic, and professional objectives.
• Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility - Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to engage in the social responsibilities expected of a community member.
• Critical and Creative Thinking - Students will be able to demonstrate purposeful thinking with the goal of using a creative process for developing and building upon ideas and/or the goal of using a critical process for the analyzing and evaluating of ideas.

Course Competencies

1. Examine leadership roles and skills for management of health care within the multidisciplinary team.
2. Analyze health care policy and regulatory processes for nursing practice.
3. Differentiate professional methods to facilitate collaboration and communication.
4. Discriminate the ethical principles that guide the practice of professional nursing.
5. Adhere to professional nursing care that respects cultural diversity across the lifespan.
6. Apply teaching strategies to educate adult learners.
7. Participate in a service-learning event to promote healthy life-style habits.
8. Apply continuous quality improvement strategies to provide improved health care.