NURS 425 - Nursing Leadership and Management

Credits: 3

This course introduces leadership and management concepts for providing care within the continually evolving health care environment. Legal/ethical issues, decision making, health care delivery systems, staffing, team building/communication, interprofessional collaboration, case management, informatics, change, quality improvement and role transition are explored to enhance communication for professional nursing practice, problem solving and decision making. This course is part of the university’s Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines program.

Pre-Requisites: All 300 level nursing courses and ENGL 120 - College Composition II or ENGL 121H - Honors Composition II.
Co-Requisites: NURS 415 - Advanced Concepts II Child Health, NURS 431 - Community Health II, NURS 498A - Clinical Concepts II.
Offered: Fall