LEADERSHIP IN THE PROFESSION OF NURSING
Learning is centered on advancing knowledge of professional leadership necessary in healthcare settings. Expand the understanding of core concepts related to ethics and health equity at an organizational and systems level to influence care and outcomes. Broaden the understanding of nursing's leadership role in the healthcare delivery system, emergency preparedness, cost-effectiveness of care, and care coordination.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: NURSING 314 , 323 , 324 , and 326 Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop a capacity for leadership and demonstrate a spirit of inquiry that fosters flexibility and professional maturity. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine the influence of organization-level mission, vision, philosophy, and values statements on the development of a professional nursing practice. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Incorporate ethical comportment in one’s practice that reflects nursing’s mission to society and integrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as core to one’s professional identity. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Examine the nurses’ leadership role in care coordination across the continuum of care. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Explain the principles and practices of preparedness, focusing on the leadership role in care coordination to protect population health during disasters and public health emergencies. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Appraise the internal and external healthcare system processes through consideration of cost-effectiveness of care. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Outline the nurses’ leadership role in identifying the best evidence to support policy development and proposing modifications based on population findings. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop a capacity for leadership and demonstrate a spirit of inquiry that fosters flexibility and professional maturity. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine the influence of organization-level mission, vision, philosophy, and values statements on the development of a professional nursing practice. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Incorporate ethical comportment in one’s practice that reflects nursing’s mission to society and integrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as core to one’s professional identity. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Examine the nurses’ leadership role in care coordination across the continuum of care. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Explain the principles and practices of preparedness, focusing on the leadership role in care coordination to protect population health during disasters and public health emergencies. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Appraise the internal and external healthcare system processes through consideration of cost-effectiveness of care. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Outline the nurses’ leadership role in identifying the best evidence to support policy development and proposing modifications based on population findings. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027