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Jun 29, 2025
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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NSG 450 - Nursing Leadership
Description: Builds on prior learning and experience to explore transformational leadership, facilitating healthy work environments, and providing optimal patient care by developing a leadership project in evidence-based practice or quality improvement.
Prerequisites: Program Admission.
Credits: 4
Lecture: 4
Course Content:
- Quality improvement project: processes, SWOT analysis, design, implementation, evaluation
- Concepts of leadership vs. management
- Effective leaders: characteristics, attitudes, values
- How to be a change agent, innovator, visionary, and strategic thinker
- Leading people through coaching, mentoring, empowering, engaging and delegating effectively
- Interprofessional leadership through governance and organizational structure
Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze leadership as a strategy to improve patient safety and quality outcomes. (1,4-6)
- Differentiate between leadership and management. (2)
- Analyze leadership qualities and strategies needed to lead people, change and organizations. (3-5)
- Assess the nurse leader's role in creating and sustaining healthy work environments through communication, collaboration, and delegation. (5,6)
- Articulate the roles of the nurse leader as an innovator and change agent. (4)
- Develop and plan the implementation of a quality improvement or evidence-based pratice project. (1)
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