NURS 6312 - ADULT-GERONTOLOGY CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST OUTCOME ASSESSMENT

[3 Credits]

Adult Health Clinical Nursing Specialist III is primarily a clinical course that allows for further development in the role as an Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist. It builds upon adult health clinical nurse specialist courses and core course work. Theis course emphasizes the roles of leadership, collaboration, and consultation in the acute seeting. Focus is on inter-professional collaboration and communication that faculitates change to improve patient outcomes. Ethical decision making, change theory, and outcome management methods are incorporated. Spheres of influence are the patient/client, nurses and nursing practice, and organization/system. clinical experiences occur in the acute care setting as students analyze processes and outcomes at the aggregate and individual level.