Master Resource Outline

 

Course Title: NRSG 508 Clinical Leadership Practicum

Credits: 7 (clinical lab)

Semesters Offered: Spring

Pre-requisites: NRSG 509, NRSG 604, NRSG 608, NRSG 611

Degree: MN

AACN Core Competencies for Advanced-level Nursing Education: 1,2,3,4,5

MRJCON MN Program Learning Outcomes: 1,2,3,4,5

 

Course Description:

In collaboration with the faculty and clinical preceptor, students will design, manage, and evaluate care to improve health outcomes for a selected population. The clinical immersion practicum will provide a platform to support transformative learning within a selected health care organization. The course is designed to promote integration of previously learned coursework through immersion in the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) role in order to create programs that improve health outcomes.

 

Catalog Description:

The clinical immersion practicum will provide a platform to support transformative learning. The course is designed to promote integratons of previously learned coursework through immersion in the Clinical Nursing Leader (CNL) role.

 

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Collaborate with interprofessional teams to design, develop, and implement a capstone activity for improving patient care guidelines/ protocols, clinical practice, patient safety, or quality.
  2. Develop, implement, and evaluate a clinical immersion plan based on the CNL competencies.
  3. Conduct an interprofessional team meeting incorporating client and family input with the focus to design, coordinate, and evaluate plans of care for a cohort of patients.
  4. Analyze aggregate data to prepare reports and justify needs for select care improvements.
  5. Demonstrate the ability to coach, delegate, and supervise healthcare team members in the performance of nursing procedures and processes with a focus on safety and competence.
  6. Participate in development of or change in policy within the health care organization.

 

Exemplars of Course Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Develop a policy or change of policy within the healthcare organization. (CLO 1,2,6)
  2. Create discharge plans for a patient or patient population. (CLO 1,3,5)
  3. Analyze the CNL role with social determinants of health and how these factors affect patient care and outcomes. (CLO 2,3,4)

 

Curricular Threads addressed in this course:

  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Diversity
  • Cultural Sensitivity
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Communication
  • Ethics
  • Clinical Judgement

 

Recommended Content:

Develop a policy or change of policy with interdisciplinary team.

  • Assess safety concern
  • Perform gap analysis
  • Interview stakeholders
  • Observe current processes
  • Disseminate findings and proposed solutions

Observe and analyze interprofessional team reviews of current patient plans of care.

Integrate findings to create specific patient or patient population plan of care to achieve high quality patient outcomes and reflect client/ family input.

Integrate best practice guidelines and EBP into patient plan of care.

Conduct health education of individual patient or cohort based on risk profile.

Develop, implement, and evaluate a health education plan for a unit-specific issue common to multiple clients.

Evaluate the role of the team, teaching/ learning method used, client interactions, expected and actual outcomes.

Analyze interprofessional patterns of communication, collaboration, and conflict.

Analyze how social determinants of health affect patient care and patient outcomes.

 

                                                                                  References:

American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2013, October). Competencies and curricular
expectations for clinical nurse leader education and practice. Washington, DC, Author.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2013). The essentials: Competencies and 
curricular expectations for clinical nurse leader education and practice. Washington, DC, 
Author.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2017, May). Recommended CNL Practice 
Experiences. Washington, DC, Author.

 

Approved by GAAC: 12/9/13; 4/26/19; October 2024

Approved by Faculty: 1/7/14; 5/2/19; 12/12/24