Health Care Systems

This course expands the utilization of the nursing process to health care delivery systems. The focus of the course is the professional nurse's leadership and management role in working effectively within various types of organizational systems. The course emphasizes a systems theory approach to the management of organizations. The management process is related to the nursing process in the context of planning, change, and evaluation. Organizational behavior, the change process and the management of the health care delivery, and the nursing care within organizations are components of this course. Professionalism, leadership-management concepts, and teaching- learning strategies are integrated with the nurse manager role to prepare the student to function as a change agent for health promotion, maintenance, and restoration in organized health care delivery systems. Clinical practice experiences focus on the application of relevant theory and research as a basis for critical thinking and decision making.