Managing Community Based Systems

In this course, students integrate practice models for community-based primary health care services, delivery and management concepts and principles, and examine how nurse managers address the challenge of shaping the systems in which they function. Emphasis is placed on assisting students in understanding and responding to factors in the rapidly changing environment which affect primary health care clinical services and related organizational and managerial practices. Principles and practices of human resource management, resource allocation, and services management will be emphasized. Leadership roles in community-based systems and factors, which facilitate or hinder role enactment, will also be addressed. Opportunities to examine the unique aspects of managerial theory and decision making and clinical service delivery applicable to a subspecialty area of focus will be provided through didactic and practicum learning experiences.