NURS 609 - Strategic Management in Healthcare Organizations

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory Hours: 0

Prerequisite(s): NURS 501, NURS 502, NURS 606, NURS 607, NURS 608, ALHT 500, ALHT 501.

Restriction(s): Restricted to MS Nursing Administration majors.

Corequisite(s): None.

Nurse administrators in healthcare organizations must be aware of and integrate strategic organizational goals. Students in this course will examine nursing administrative practice issues as they relate to the stragetic planning process. Student apply leadership and management principles, concepts, and theory to strategic issues within the case study format. Through these applications, students learn to use a variety of administrative strategies within the context of supportive and collaborative interdisciplinary relationships to achieve positive patient care delivery outcomes that effect positive change in patient communities.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course:

Identify the components of human resource systems to include recruitment and retention, orientation, and ongoing staff development.
Describe labor standards and laws governing the management of human resources.
Analyze the role of the nurse administrator to effectively staff for the delivery of patient care.
Identify the process for effective management of staff performance problems and the elements of collective bargaining and management of a unionized staff.