2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Aug 14, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

NSG 450 - Nursing Leadership


Description: Builds on prior learning and experience to explore transformational leadership to facilitate healthy work environments and provide optimal patient care. Includes 1 credit (45 hours) of clinical practice to design a quality improvement project within a health care setting.

Prerequisites: Program Admission.

Credits: 4
Lecture: 3
Lab: 3

Course Content:
  1. Quality improvement project: processes, SWOT analysis, design, implementation, evaluation
  2. Concepts of leadership vs. management
  3. Effective leaders: characteristics, attitudes, values
  4. How to be a change agent, innovator, visionary, and strategic thinker
  5. Leading people through coaching, mentoring, empowering and engaging
  6. Interprofessional leadership through governance and organizational structure

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Analyze leadership as a strategy to improve patient safety and quality outcomes. (1,4-6)
  2. Differentiate between leadership and management. (2)
  3. Analyze leadership qualities and strategies needed to lead people, change and organizations. (3-5)
  4. Assess the role of the nurse leader in creating and sustaining healthy work environments. (5,6)
  5. Articulate the roles of the nurse leader as an innovator and change agent. (4)
  6. Develop and implement a quality improvement project in a clinical setting. (1)