2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    May 02, 2024  
2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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NURS 208 - Professional Topics: Management Concepts and Transition into Professional Practice


Credits: 3.5
Description
This course introduces the nursing student to basic management/leadership concepts as well as prepares the nursing student to assume and assimilate the role and the responsibilities of the professional nurse.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Analyze basic management/leadership concepts needed to provide nursing care to a group of patients.
  2. Explain the nurse leaders’ use of clinical reasoning required for the delivery of safe and high quality nursing care.
  3. Explore how caring behaviors impact nursing practice within the healthcare delivery system.
  4. Investigate verbal and written communication principles used by professional nurses to enhance collaboration for safe an effective patient care.
  5. Examine patient care using Quality and Safety Education (QSEN) initiatives reflecting professional nursing practice within legal, ethical, and regulatory standards.
  6. Analyze teaching strategies utilized in the role of a nurse leader.
  7. Evaluate interdisciplinary collaboration related to patient/family care in the clinical and community settings.

Prerequisite: NURS 247  and NURS 248  



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