NURS 4700 - Leadership and Management of Care Capstone

Institution:

Utah Tech University

Subject:

Nursing

Description:

Explores the role of the professional nurse as a leader and manager of patient care by exploring strategies, processes, and techniques of the nurse leader and manager as well as theories, principles, and application of leadership and management within the professional nursing role. Emphasis is placed on management of health information, leadership applied at the point of care and effecting change at the organizational and systems level. Student portfolios are used to demonstrate achievement of end-of-program student learning outcomes. This course requires a Differential Tuition Rate which is an additional fee of $77 charged per credit hour. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Analyze the management of care in a variety of patient care settings. 2. Compile evidence of learning with the completion of the portfolio assignment and clinical change project. 3. Demonstrate principles of collaboration through inter-professional team work. 4. Evaluate how healthcare systems influence health care and nursing practice. 5. Create a quality improvement project utilizing leadership and management of care skills. Prerequisites: NURS 4010 (Grade C or higher) and NURS 4300 (Grade C or higher). Corequisites: NURS 4701. FA, SP

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

08/15/2018 - 08/14/2022 

Institution Website:

www.utahtech.edu/

Phone Number:

(435) 652-7500

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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