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