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THLEAD 350 Critical Analysis and Writing to Improve Decision Making (3)
Focuses on critical thinking and writing relevant to learning and practice in nursing and healthcare. Includes self-assessment, collaborative learning, problem solving approaches, and clinical decision making. Applies critical analysis to health-related issues. Offered: jointly with T NURS 350.
THLEAD 360 Healthcare Leadership Strategies (5) I&S
Emphasizes essential healthcare leadership competencies by focusing on communication, collaboration, change mastery, and conflict resolution. Provides essential theoretical leadership foundation and review evidence for specific leadership style. Provides opportunity to discover one's own leadership abilities with respect to each of the discussed competencies.
THLEAD 380 Healthcare Budgetary Analysis and Financial Decision Making (5) QSR
Focuses on budgets commonly encountered in healthcare including operating and capital budgets. Provides methods to analyze financial status including productivity measures, variance analysis, break-even analysis, and evaluation of financial documents as well as introduction to cost effectiveness and cost/benefit analysis strategies. Examines insurance as a revenue source in healthcare budgets.
THLEAD 403 Introduction to Research in Nursing and Healthcare (3) QSR
Describes the systematic steps of the research process. Introduces approaches, frameworks, and concepts used in investigating healthcare and nursing problems. Emphasizes integration of research findings to establish evidence-based healthcare and nursing practice. Required background: introduction to statistics; prerequisite: either THLEAD 350 or T NURS 350. Offered: jointly with T NURS 403.
THLEAD 407 Diversity: Issues of Exclusion and Inclusion (3) I&S/VLPA
Examines the ways that difference is defined, used, and experienced in society. Analyzes the intersections of multiple forms of oppression. Attention given to the ideological and institutional manifestations of oppression in U.S. society. Diversity taught as a social context for healthcare and nursing practice. Offered: jointly with T NURS 407.
THLEAD 410 Ethical Issues in Clinical Practice (3) I&S
Identifies ethical issues relevant to healthcare and the profession of nursing. Uses multiple ethical perspectives to identify, describe, and analyze selected ethical dilemmas relevant to professional practice, the delivery of health care, and the health of individuals and populations. Offered: jointly with T NURS 410.
THLEAD 420 Healthcare Accreditation and Legal Issues (5) I&S
Examines critical accreditation and legal issues commonly occurring in healthcare organizations. Focuses on specific accreditation processes and quality issues. Examines patient privacy, access and consent requirements, security requirements, safety challenges, organizational legal issues, and personnel legal issues.
THLEAD 430 Interpersonal Relationships in Nursing and Healthcare (1-3, max. 3) I&S
Addresses communication skills, patterns, and practices. Examines nonverbal and verbal modes of communication. Explores a variety of communication domains: cultural, personal, professional, group interaction, and conflict. Emphasizes application of conceptual models in interpersonal processes. Prerequisite: either THLEAD 350 or T NURS 350. Offered: jointly with T NURS 430.
THLEAD 480 Healthcare Leadership Fieldwork (5)
Provides an opportunity to apply theory to a work environment in a healthcare organization associated with future career goals. Provides experiential opportunities to demonstrate professional behaviors.
