Nursing Management: Theory & Practice

Nursing Management: Theory & Practice is organized by The American Institute of Health Care Professionals (AIHCP), Inc..

Credits: Continuing Hours of Education = 50.

Course Information:
This online CE course is a comprehensive course in Nursing Management theory and process as well as practice applications. It is particularly designed for those Registered Nurses who are in our program seeking Certification as a Certified Specialist in Nursing Management, although it is available and applicable for all RN's who may want to learn or increase their knowledge of nursing management. It is designed as a comprehensive training course for RN's who are new to nursing management, as well as an update of knowledge and skills course for those nurses in nursing management positions currently. The course presents cutting-edge contemporary content in the subject matter as well as evidence-based content. All facets of nursing management practice are presented, including, but not limited to, leadership, strategic planning, employee performance, risk management, finance and budgeting, informatics, legal and ethical issue, human resource management, human capital, coaching, role development, contemporary issues in nursing management, leadership theory and models and applications, health care policy, strategic practices, organizational effectiveness, collaborative partnerships, leading and managing quality and outcomes, achieving sustainable outcomes, sustaining improvements, polarity thinking, population health, future trends and much more. The text presents AONE key competencies for nurse managers related to all of the presented content. Students are provided case studies for examination throughout the course. Supplemental videos are also examined to enhance the learning experience. This CE Course provides RN's a real opportunity to study and receive a very comprehensive learning experience in contemporary nursing management, providing the knowledge base and skills needed for success in today's nursing practice environment.

Course Objectives: 
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
• Discuss current trends in healthcare management and their impact on quality, safety, and value-added care (care delivery).
• Envision care delivery systems for the future.
• Space discuss major influences-specifically, Institute of Medicine (IOM), space Agency for Health – care Research and Quality (A H R Q), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (I H I), Magnet, Baldridge, and other major stakeholders-in healthcare systems.
• Identify how ethics relates to managing health care services.
• Describe how leadership theory underpins healthcare management.
• Discuss the guiding principles and competencies for nursing leadership practice.
• Relate selected theories of leadership and management to organizational outcomes.
• Discuss the role of nursing leadership in managing a clinical discipline.
• Develop processes to lead and manage nursing and interprofessional teams.
• Apply principles of management to reach desired organizational outcomes and a shared vision.
• Design models that strengthen synergistic nursing and interprofessional effectiveness.
• Identify key elements of an executive coaching relationship.
• Draw distinctions between coaching for performance management and executive coaching for transformative leadership practice.
• Integrate professional responsibility and power, authenticity, integrity, and emotional intelligence into leadership practice.
• Examine contributions of executive coaching to develop and sustain a healthy work environment.
• Describe the attributes of leadership styles which promote contemporary care models.
• Envision how nurse leaders position the discipline for success.
• Acknowledge contributions of all team members in achieving organizational imperatives.
• Describe change in complex adaptive systems.
• Synthesize the inputs and outputs in monitoring organizational effectiveness.
• Examine the key components in developing organizational structures that maximize efficiency and profitability.
• Evaluate the types and characteristics of organizational structures including the internal and external environments.
• Describe high reliability organizations and the need for a new model of patient safety and quality.
• Consider applications and demonstrations of strategic planning and healthcare organizations.
• Define the foundational elements of strategic mission and purpose statement as it pertains to nursing services and managing teams.
• Differentiate between strategic planning and tactile planning.
• Explore change leadership and organizational learning as key drivers for implementing strategic plans.
• Examine concepts in the budgeting process, including direct and indirect costs; fixed, variable, and sunk costs; operating or cash budget; personnel; supplies; and equipment and capital budgets.
• Identify steps in the budget planning process.
• Explore the effects of reimbursement structures.
• Explain value – based purchasing as it relates to quality and safety initiatives.
• Explain how human capital affects staff satisfaction, turnover, patient satisfaction, and quality.
• Define the concepts of emotional intelligence and emotional quotient as they apply to successful leadership approaches.
• Define the term empowerment and describe its importance in a healthy work environment.
• Develop a strategy for an effective communication infrastructure.
• Discuss the management of difficult scenarios, including conducting crucial conversations, managing chaos, lateral violence, and bullying.
• Discuss the management of a diverse work team, including gender, generational, and cultural differences.
• Discuss strategies for renewing staff and reducing burnout.
• Differentiate among standards for performance appraisals.
• Distinguish among the major types, designs, and criteria for pay for performance.
• Utilize techniques that foster individual development and performance.
• Illustrate the value of a portfolio for professional development.
• Identify strategies that nurse leaders can use to create environments that promote data mining, data use, and data enrichment.
• Match skills and knowledge that are requisite to data analytics.
• Explore the integration and connectivity of data systems to transform quality, safe transitions of care at all points of service.
• Discuss how laws and regulations shape healthcare policy and administrative practice.
• Identify foundations of healthcare law and policy and their interrelatedness to administrative leadership.
• Understand the differences and complementary elements of delivery systems and payment structures underpinned by laws and regulations.
• Examine challenges to achieve high – quality health care and patient safety in the United States.
• Identify evolving approaches that address healthcare improvement and patient safety, including use of internal data (Microsystems analysis) and external data (research evidence).
• Identify and discuss components of a quality improvement program.
• To find tools used in the quality improvement process.
• Discuss the importance of problem identification and resolution, monitoring and feedback, customer satisfaction, and research in providing high – quality health care and patient safety.
• Discuss strategies to anticipate risk and revert harm.
• Describe the importance and attributes of leaders who transform care environments.
• Define the values and attributes that support achievable and sustainable outcomes.
• Discuss how meaningful outcomes are required to engage champions who lead others to ensure that outcomes are achieved and sustained.
• Describe how staff engagement and satisfaction defined models of sustainability and information infrastructure.
• Outline strategies that enhance thinking and learning, invite disruptive innovation and strategic messaging, and facilitate stakeholders abandoning outdated approaches to leading.
• Describe the mechanisms for achieving organizational outcomes that are replicable and applicable to advancing nursing knowledge, practice, and policy development through messaging.
• Identify ethical leadership and practices for guiding ethical behavior.
• Outline the components of an executive summary.
• Define implementation science and implementation practice and describe the nuances of both for sustained improvement.
• Describe implementation theories, models, and frameworks and their relationship to improvement.
• Compare and contrast the differences between dissemination science and dissemination practice and their relationship to implementation for sustainable improvement.
• Explain knowledge translation and processes aligned with implementation and dissemination.
• Analyze attributes of innovation and their importance to implementation, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge translation.
• Evaluate leadership competencies critical to implementation, dissemination, and innovation practices.
• Discuss successful strategies for leading and facilitating teams through implementation and sustained improvement.
• Define polarity thinking is a skill set for nurse executives.
• Discuss the significance of wicked problems and tensions that exist in healthcare.
• Explain the use of a polarity lens to manage the dynamic equilibrium and wicked problems are tensions in healthcare.
• Describe metrics to assess and measure how effectively an individual or organization leverages the tensions in a polarity.
• Discuss the implications of a well – managed polarity in healthcare.
• Discuss current challenges facing facing healthcare systems and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Differentiate between population health and public health.
• identify how the Triple Aim and Quadruple Aim serve as a compass for leading and managing population health initiatives.
• Examine the influences of political systems, political cultures, policies, social media, and social and environmental factors on effective population health management.
• Identify health as a determinant associated with population health and management.
• Describe the value of risk stratification to population health management.81. Discuss the importance of relationship building and care management in populat