Nursing Leadership & Management

Patricia Kelly is Professor Emerita at Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana, where she served as Faculty and as Program Coordinator for the Associate Degree Nursing Program . She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from DePaul University and a Master's Degree from Loyola University in Chicago. She has taught Quality Improvement conferences for the Joint Commission and was the Director of Quality Improvement at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics. She has also edited and authored ten editions of textbooks on Nursing Leadership and Management, Nursing Delegation, and on the six Quality and Safety Education in Nursing(QSEN) elements , as well as authoring several nursing journal articles. She volunteers in a Level I Trauma Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois, has volunteered on health care trips to Nicaragua, and has been a Red Cross disaster relief volunteer. For most of her nursing career, she has worked part time as a staff nurse in an emergency department, as well as working full time as Nursing Education Faculty at Wesley-Passavant School of Nursing, Chicago State University, and Purdue University.

Unit I: NURSING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT.
1. Nursing Leadership and Management.
2. The Healthcare Environment.
3. Organizational Behavior and Magnet Hospitals.
4. Basic Clinical Healthcare Economics.
5. Evidence-Based Health Care.
6. Nursing and Healthcare Informatics.
7. Population Based Healthcare Practice.
Unit II: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM.
8. Personal and Interdisciplinary Communication.
9. Politics and Consumer Partnerships.
10. Strategic Planning and organizing Patient Care.
11. Effective Team Building.
12. Power.
13. Change, Innovation, and Conflict Management.
Unit III: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT- CENTERED CARE.
14. Budget Concepts for Patient Care.
15. Effective Staffing.
16. Delegation of Patient Care.
17. Organization of Patient Care Management.
18. Time Management and Setting Patient Care Priorities.
19. Patient and Health Care Education.
Unit IV: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF PATIENT OUTCOMES.
20. Managing Outcomes Using an Organizational Quality Improvement Model.
21. Evidence Based Strategies to Improve Patient Care Outcomes.
22. Decision Making and Critical Thinking.
23. Legal Aspects of Health Care.
24. Ethical Aspects of Health Care.
25. Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality.
Unit V: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF SELF AND THE FUTURE.
26. Collective Bargaining.
27. Career Planning.
28. Nursing Job Opportunities.
29. Your First Job.
30. Healthy Living: Balancing Personal and Professional Needs.
31. NCLEX Preparation and Professionalism.