Analysis of leadership styles. Consideration of negotiation, analysis of productivity and managing change in organizations. Principles and theories of nursing, social and organizational change and development, along with the concepts of chronicity and suffering, are examined in relation to the maintenance of health in the aging and the chronically ill populations. Emphasis is placed on the role of social policy, creative leadership, and analytical thought processes. The application of moral principles to the medical and health care professionals.
Emphasis is given to decision-making, social policy, and service related to issues of health care.
A sociological study of the family with an emphasis on historical trends, cultural variations, and current family issues. NUR 430 is an introduction to Community Health Nursing for the RN students. Students are challenged to integrate the conceptual bases of community health with the conceptual base of nursing. The diversity of roles for the community health nurse, and factors impacting the health care system and thus nursing will be explored. The nursing process for the health of selected communities will be applied at the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention levels in a community setting.