Organizational/Systems Leadership Development Practicum

Graduate / Professional

This leadership practicum requires students to participate in a mentored leadership initiative in a healthcare setting or related community-based organization, governmental agency, professional or trade association or with local, state, or national policy makers. The expected outcomes are (1) development of a mentor-mentee relationship with an understanding of the respective roles and practices, (2) demonstrated growth in selected leadership competency area(s), (3) delivery of a leadership project/change initiative for the mentor, and (4) for course faculty and each student him/herself, a descriptive log of leadership styles encountered in the practicum experience and self-observation of the student's own evidence-based leadership practice. Required for D.N.P. students in their second year, fall term. Concurrent with NURS 9810 . 1 Course cr HTBA