NUR 474 - Honors Professional Nursing Practice

Institution:

The University of Alabama

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Description:

8 hours. Prerequisites: Enrollment in the University Honors Program, NUR 418, NUR 420, and NUR 422 This course focuses on leadership theory and management functions essential to professional nursing. Clinical experiences focus on enactment of the professional nurse roles in a concentrated practicum in secondary or tertiary care facilities. Leadership and management principles are applied as students enhance direct care delivery skills, critical thinking and decision-making. The honors section will complete an in-depth comparison of quality improvement models for health care management. Subsequent application of a selected model in a rural health care delivery system will be implemented and reported in a scholarly paper. (Theory and laboratory)

Credits:

8.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ua.edu/

Phone Number:

(205) 348-6010

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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