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NURS 4363 - Leadership in Professional Nursing


Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours: 1.75 Lecture, 3.75 Clinical
Offered: Fall, Spring

Provides nursing leadership and management application to promote quality patient outcomes, emphasizing prioritization, delegation, and supervision of nursing care. Historical overview of leadership and management theories, concepts, and skills, legal and ethical implications of professional nurse’s role in client care, staffing, budgeting, quality improvement, healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environment issues are covered. This course includes 56.25 hours in the clinical setting.

Prerequisite: admission to the BSN program and HLTH 4103 Research In The Health Sciences , and either NURS 4336 Nursing Care of the Adult II  or NURS 3339 Adult Medical Surgical Nursing  
Prerequisite or Corequisite: NURS 4011 NCLEX Preparation II NURS 4356 Nursing Care of the Critically Ill Adult , and NURS 4453 Community Health Nursing 



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