Unit Code: NMG850

Unit Name: Leadership in Nursing

Description: The topics included in the delivery of this course covers the new roles and responsibilities and services that are focused on improving and optimizing the health of our Pacific populations in Fiji and the Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Whilst the course is centered on the Pacific health and nursing context, the knowledge areas of clinical scholarship, political, policy/legislative environment, change and leadership theories and models and the continuing development of Advanced Nursing Practice in the global context is also examined.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to : 1. Review the fundamental purpose of nursing practice and state how advanced nurse practitioners can become responsive by critical thinking and utilising emotional and social intelligence and provide leadership in an environment where disciplinary, interdisciplinary, public and private, and political needs must be integrated. 2. Critically examine the wider socio-cultural problems that are shifting the boundaries of nursing practice and shaping consumer-centered care and integrated delivery systems. 3. Analyze and integrate the literature relevant to issues identified as having major impacts on the equality of nursing leadership in nursing practice. 4. Critically examine a change for nursing practice that is achievable, defensible and moves specialist nursing forward, beyond the limitations of the current Pacific context. 5. Critically evaluate their own work and its impact in a political context that emphasizes integrated care and health outcomes.

Prerequisite: Minimum Entry Requirement.

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 30

Offered In: Semester 1,2