NU 610 - Practicum in Nursing Administration

• Assignments: Varied throughout the term
• Interactivity: Discussion Boards
• Final Assessment: None

• Identify, formulate, analyze, and evaluate an appropriate project relating to the advanced role of the nurse manager/administrator in a health-care setting. (MSN Essential IX)
• Conduct a comprehensive and systematic assessment as a foundation for decision making. (MSN Essential IX)
• Use knowledge of illness and disease management to provide evidence-based care to populations, perform risk assessments, and design plans or programs of care. (MSN Essential IX)
• Employ knowledge and skills in economics, business principles, and systems in the design, delivery, and evaluation of care. (MSN Essential IX)
• Apply theories and evidence-based knowledge in leading, as appropriate, the healthcare team to design, coordinate and evaluate the delivery of care. (MSN Essential I,VII, IX)
• Apply advanced knowledge of the effects of global environment, individual and population characteristics to the design, implementation, and evaluation of care.  (MSN Essential IX)
• Demonstrate mastery of subject matter learned within the graduate curriculum as it relates to the topics presented in the course. (MSN Essential IX )
• Analyze and evaluate the role of the master’s prepared nurse administrator. (MSN Essential IX )
• Apply the best available evidence from nursing and other sciences as the foundation for practice. (MSN Essential IX)
• Advocate for patients, families, caregivers, communities and members of the healthcare team. (MSN Essential IX)
• Use leadership skills to teach, coach, and mentor other members of the healthcare team. (MSN Essential IX)
• Use information and communication technologies to advance patient education, enhance accessibility of care, analyze practice patterns, and improve health outcomes, including nurse sensitive indicators. (MSN Essential IX)
• Integrate an evolving personal philosophy of nursing and healthcare into nursing practice. (MSN Essential IX)
• Establish therapeutic relationships to negotiate patient-centered, culturally appropriate, evidence-based goals and modalities of care. (MSN Essential IX)
• Incorporate scientific and ethical principles in identifying ethical issues arising from practice, including the use of technologies, and in assisting patients and other healthcare providers to address such issues. (MSN Essential IX)
• Analyze information and design systems to sustain improvements and promote transparency using high reliability and just culture principles. (MSN Essential III)