Leadership and Management - Online Course

Leadership requires the purposeful selection of behaviors to successfully support a team’s effort to achieve shared goals. This course will examine the leadership process, facilitating change, and the leader’s role in implementing technology.

Course Objectives

• Describe key characteristics of leaders.
• Discuss the evolution of leadership theory as a foundation for evidence-based leadership practice.
• Explain the relationship between leader behavior and work outcomes.
• Describe the leadership process.
• Assess the effectiveness of leadership.
• Identify opportunities that nurses have to be change agents.
• Discuss different change agent theories/models.
• Describe strategies to bring about change.
• Discuss the impact of technology on nursing care.
• Describe how today’s clinical and information technology will evolve.
• Explain how to implement new technology in nursing care.
• Evaluate current technologies used in nursing.
• Define the major theories that explain how change is accomplished within organizations.
• Outline the recommended steps to be taken when implementing change in a health care organization.
• Apply this knowledge to initiation of a change in a health care setting.
• Discuss characteristics of impactful meetings.
• Review Robert's Rules of Order.
• Propose strategies to enhance meetings.