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. This course builds on the foundations of research critique and utilization studied at the baccalaureate level. Students develop a beginning proficiency in critiquing nursing research studies. Students critique clinical, educational and systems research in nursing.