Students will learn what successful health care organizations are doing to improve quality, enhance customer satisfaction and reduce costs. The Malcolm Baldrige Healthcare Quality Award Criteria and the Joint Commission for Accrediting of Healthcare Organizations utilized as frameworks for assessment and improvement. Students select a specific client group and type of care delivery agency for a field experience in case management. Emphasis is placed on care coordination, negotiation in brokering for health care services and the application of case management models. Concepts from all theoretical and clinical courses are synthesized to provide for role enactment in the practicum.
Weekly seminars facilitate role socialization.
A continuation of clinical experience in Nu568. This practicum course affords the student the opportunity to apply advanced knowledge and skills of health promotion, maintenance and disease management to plan therapeutic regimens for adult clients in primary care settings. Advanced practice role socialization is developed. NU586 Advanced Practice Nursing Master's Project Opportunity to develop and present a scholarly project related to a topic in advanced nursing practice. Weekly seminar meetings facilitate role socialization.