NURS50006 — Public Health Leadership, Management, and Evaluation
NURS 50006 - Public Health Leadership, Management, and Evaluation NURS 50006 - Public Health Leadership, Management, and Evaluation 6 Credit(s) Students explore various organizational relationships within health care systems and prepare to participate in the design of cost-effective, innovative models of care delivery and practice change proposals. Professional leadership theories and how they shape the public health nurse leader in such things as collaboration, conflict resolution, decision making, negotiation, and evaluations are introduced. Students discuss change management theories and evaluate the ethical, social, legal, economic, and political implications of practice change and public health care along with strategies for managing and evaluating human, fiscal, and public health care resources in a variety of organizational systems. Students also examine the uses of patient care, information system, and communication technologies and discuss the design, implementation, and evaluation of electronic health record systems and clinical decision support systems. The student will work with a master’s or doctoral prepared nurse preceptor to develop an original comprehensive nursing research project on a topic of professional or personal interest as it relates to public health. This six credit course consists of 180 hours of practicum.