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Unit Code: NUR644

Unit Name: Principles and Practice of Nursing Management

Description: This course is designed to provide students with contemporary management knowledge and its effectiveness essentially requires a balance between good leadership and good management. Both of these facets are required for competence in management. Effective leadership in current organizational environments is concerned with a leader being more generative or transformational rather than autocratic, laisser-faire, or even transactional. Competent managers exhibit the qualities of generative, transitional leaders and they also operate within a sound management framework that incorporates a number of different areas that will be explored.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Discuss the evolution of management theory and apply the management functions to nursing. 2. Discuss the various types and characteristics of organizational structure. 3. Create a mission statement, vision statement, organizational philosophy, nursing service philosophy, goals and objectives of a known or fictitious organization. 4. Apply the concepts of human resource management (recruitment, retention, managing conflict). 5. Discuss delegation in management. 6. Discuss the organizational behavior and motivation. 7. Differentiate management and leadership concepts. 8. Describe the key concepts of risk and quality management in healthcare. 9. Discuss the management of nursing station, health centre and hospital ward. 10. Demonstrate basic management skills in allocated clinical nursing areas.

Prerequisite: NUR611, NUR613, NUR631 & NUR643

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 2