45:705:640
Transformational Leadership Theory (3)
This course focuses on the theories, behaviors, strategies, and tools related to transformational leadership. Students will critically analyze theories and evidence relevant to the influence of transformational leadership on health care policy, organizational performance, staff performance, and patient safety and outcomes. Synthesizing theories and evidence, students will formulate a leadership implementation plan.
Corequisite: 45:705:641 for B.S.N.-M.S.N. and B.S.N.-D.N.P. students.
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45:705:641
Transformational Leadership Practicum (3)
This practicum focuses on the application of theories and evidence-based knowledge essential to effective transformational leadership practices in health care organizations. The foci of this course are the assessment of leadership methods, organizational responses, and the implementation and evaluation of a leadership plan. Based on self-assessments, students will also develop a personalized plan for the continuing development of their transformational leadership skills.
Corequisite: 45:705:640 for B.S.N.-M.S.N. and B.S.N.-D.N.P. students.
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45:705:642
Organizational Complexity Theory (3)
The focus of this course is to analyze health care organizations through the lens of organizational theories, systems thinking, and the science of complexity. Students will synthesize the tenets of systems and complexity science and evaluate their relationships to organizational inputs, processes, and output, including patient and employee outcomes. The impact of internal and external forces on organizations will be analyzed, inclusive of organizational ethics. Theory and evidence-based strategies to create and negotiate within high-performing complex organizations will be analyzed and evaluated.
Prerequisites: 45:705:644, 645.
Corequisite: 45:705:643 for B.S.N.-M.S.N. and B.S.N.-D.N.P. students.
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45:705:643
Organizational Complexity Practicum (3)
This practicum focuses on the application of theories and evidence-based knowledge related to complex organizations. Students will synthesize and apply organizational theories and evidence-based principles at a systems/organizational level as they work with an executive or leadership team.
Prerequisites: 45:705:644, 645.
Corequisite: 45:705:644 for B.S.N.-M.S.N. and B.S.N.-D.N.P. students.
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45:705:644
Quality and Safety in Health Care Theory (3)
This course focuses on the theories, models, and strategies related to quality and safety practices. Donabedian's framework of structure, process, and outcome will be used to organize national and organizational indicators most commonly used by health care organizations. The student will critically analyze nursing's influence on patient safety and health care outcomes and their impact on organizational performance inclusive of the selection, measurement methods, and application and reporting methods. Students will synthesize gaps in quality and safety measurement and identify areas for potential research and/or education.
Prerequisites: 45:705:640, 641.
Corequisite: 45:705:645 for B.S.N.-M.S.N. and B.S.N.-D.N.P. students.
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45:705:645
Quality and Safety in Health Care Practicum (3)
This practicum will focus on the synthesis and translation of quality and safety theories, models, and principles at an organizational level. Working with the organization, the student will assess the organization's culture of safety; evaluate quality and safety plans, indicators selected, methodology utilized, and translation of the improvement into practice for adoption, adaption, or abandonment.
Prerequisites: 45:705:640, 641.
Corequisite: 45:705:644 for B.S.N.-M.S.N. and B.S.N.-D.N.P. students.
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45:705:646
Creating and Sustaining Quality Organizations Theory (3)
The focus of this course is to synthesize the theories, principles, and strategies built upon in the previous theory and practicum courses along with innovation and diffusion theories and relate them to an organizational evaluation of performance excellence. Students will evaluate factors contributing to creating and sustaining high-performance organizations related to: organizational governance, workforce engagement, capability and capacity, environmental factors, work process design, learning capacity, and data application and its cumulative impact on creating high-performance quality organizations. Internal and external predictors of success will be incorporated by viewing success through the eyes of the various stakeholders.
(Post-master's D.N.P. students only). Prerequisites: 45:705:640, 642.
Corequisite: 45:705:647.
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45:705:647
Creating and Sustaining Quality Organizations Practicum (3)
This practicum focuses on the application of evaluation techniques and translation science to create and sustain high-performance organizations. Students will evaluate organizational performance using defined recognition criteria from various national and international organizations. Students will work with an executive(s) to determine which criteria they wish to use for this evaluation.
(Post-master's D.N.P. students only). Prerequisites: 45:705:640, 642.
Corequisite: 45:705:646.
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45:705:651
Managing Human Capital (3)
This course focuses on the ethical, legal, regulatory, and theory-based principles essential for effectively managing a health care workforce. Students will evaluate and synthesize theory and evidence-based strategies for creating a supportive and healthy work environment.
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45:705:653
Health Care Economics and Business Practices (3)
The focus of this course is to analyze theories and principles of health care economics at a macro and micro level. The student will analyze health care economics and its impact on organizational stability, organizational ethics, patient outcomes, and the workforce capacity. The student will synthesize accounting and standard business principles and translate them to health care organization operations.
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