NRS 461 - Nursing Leadership Lab

Units: 2.5
Seven and one-half hours laboratory per week
Prerequisite: NRS 350 and NRS 352
Corequisite: NRS 460
Description: This course focuses on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to be a nursing leader who can function as a contributing member of the inter-professional team. The development of transformational leadership skills, organizational theory, and management techniques needed to coordinate the provision of safe, quality patient-centered care are highlighted. Emphasis is placed on professional behaviors, communication that supports information exchange, collaboration and conflict mediation, health care delivery issues, ethical comportment, and the establishment and provision of evidence based practice. Integration of QSEN competencies in patient centered care, evidence based practice, teamwork and collaboration, quality improvement, safety, and informatics are stressed. Clinical experiences in a variety of settings provide the students an opportunity to explore the role of the nurse leader as a change agent in the delivery of care to patient groups and/or the community within complex and diverse health care settings.
Graded: Credit / No Credit