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NUR-535
NUR-544
Leadership & Health Policy
Cli Prac & Role IV : Comp Health Prob
This course focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary to provide exemplary leadership of groups and inter-professional teams with an emphasis on relationship and team building . Emphasis is to further enhance leadership skill development in order to resolve complex clinical situations , improve practice environments , and lead integrated health care delivery teams . In addition , the role of the nurse advancing nursing practice through developing health policy and advocacy systems will be examined . Approaches to health issues for shaping policy on a local , state and federal level are analyzed in accordance with policy making processes , politics in health care and government , healthcare economics , and ethical frameworks .
This course focuses on key concepts in care of the adult patient with selected complex acute diagnoses across the health-illness continuum by the Clinical Nurse Leader prepared nurse . There is specific focus on the physical , psychosocial , spiritual , and cultural forces impacting the complex and acute health status of the adult population . This course is a combination of theory and clinical . There is emphasis on graduate nursing concepts and frameworks in care of adult patient experiencing selected complex acute diagnoses including communication , safety , organization , critical thinking , clinical judgement and the nursing process . Additionally , this course introduces students to common complex acute diagnoses impacting body systems of the adult patient with selected complex acute diagnoses across the healthillness continuum . Students have learning opportunities to apply knowledge , skills , and competencies in complex acute care of adult patients with selected complex acute care diagnoses requiring complex nursing care .
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4.00 Take NUR-516 NUR-520 . ( Required , Previous ).