Leadership is an elusive concept.
Yet, it is a pre-requisite set of behaviors for every practicing nurse for the next century. Changes in the health care system are demanding nurses with well honed leadership skills and with a sense of stewardship. This course explores the concepts of leadership and stewardship from a historical and contemporary perspective with particularly application to the nursing profession. Ability to analyze a situation from a systems perspective . Ability to identify and attend to the context in which the information is perceived.