Clinical settings include inpatient settings, outpatient, and community organizations. Experiences involve integrating the management role in a selected setting, participating in community planning and policy implementation, and influencing political, professional and organizational processes. This course focuses on the culmination of socialization into professional nursing practice. This focus is on aggregates and communities and analysis of leadership roles. Content includes, but is not limited to, special interest and lobbying groups, political involvement, continuous quality improvement, and roles of change agent and case finder.
Students organize and manage grand rounds.
This clinical practicum provides opportunity to synthesize all previous nursing courses through a concentrated clinical experience. The capstone provides for autonomous and collaborative functioning in a clinical setting, with consideration of student preference. Clinical performance includes an integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes requisite to professional nursing practice. This course is designed to examine the economics and management of health care. Content includes, but is not limited to, health care plans, resource utilization, market supply and demand, and balancing quality of care with cost effectiveness.