Leadership and Management in Health Care Systems -- is a three-unit course required of all undergraduate nursing students and offered to other University students interested in health care service delivery. This course is designed to integrate management knowledge and concepts with practical experience within health care situations to prepare students for beginning leadership roles within existing and emerging delivery systems.

In the current service delivery environment, knowledge of organizational functioning, finance, and economics is as much a part of professional nursing practice as pathophysiology, pharmacology and patient care interventions.  Nursing practice has a profound effect on the cost of health care delivery, yet many nurses have relatively little appreciation of their role in organizational resource consumption and functional success. This class serves as a foundation to explore professional nursing's vital role in creating the envisioned patient centered, effective health care delivery organization of the future.

This course focuses on healthcare delivery organizations and the management, coordination, and implementation of patient care service across a variety of physical settings and units of delivery. The relationships between management, leadership, patient care and professional nursing will be developed to prepare the beginning practitioner for the contemporary service delivery environment.