Professionalism for Nursing in Health Care

3 Credits.

This course focuses on professional role development in nursing and health care. Content isorganized into seven modules: 1) Local to global health care; 2) Ethics; 3) Interprofessionaleducation; 4) Leadership principles; 5) Health care delivery system; 6) Quality and safety; 7)Professional roles in nursing. The course content will address health disparities,interprofessional communication, teams and teamwork, values, ethics, principles of leadership,and professional roles within both interprofessional and nursing teams. Students will beintroduced to healthcare delivery concepts, such as healthcare delivery systems and healthcare policy and financing. Finally, students will develop their nursing practice by acquiring a basic understanding of healthcare competencies through two frameworks, the IOM competencies for health care professionals and the Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) competencies.Pre/corequisites: NR.120.502 , NR.120.503 , NR.120.504 , NR.120.505 .