This clinical practicum focuses on teaching in health care systems under the mentorship of a selected faculty member or preceptor. The student will explore national health status trends and their impact on local health care delivery. Students will assess, analyze and evaluate the physical, legal, ethical, political and technical dimensions of health care systems as environments for delivery of client services. This course focuses on nursing management issues that influence the advanced practice nurse in healthcare delivery systems. They examine financial issues including budgeting and wages.
Students examine combinations of nursing leadership strategies to meet quality and cost outcomes.
This clinical practicum focuses on the management of clinical systems within health care organizations under the mentorship of a selected preceptor. The student will apply knowledge synthesized from organizational theory, nursing theory, nursing research, nursing systems, human resource management and financial management. Students select their own setting based on courses and individual goals and objectives. Three-credit clinical, nine clock hours per week. This course focuses on types of design, methods, sources of knowledge, and analyses useful to the consideration of selected nursing research problems, with a focus on using research-based knowledge in practice.