Diploma in Nursing Leadership and Care Management

Learning Outcomes

Having completed this course the learner will be able to: - Identify factors which define Team Nursing; - Identify the responsibilities of a Team Leader; - Understand type of Leadership styles employed; - Cite factors that determine Productivity levels; - Identify steps in the teaching learning process; - Identify Steps in the Learning Process; - Understand Factors which affect Learning; - Identify principles for effective teacher-learning; - Identify three types of learning; - Understand the Teaching Strategies that are effective with types of Learning; - Identify basic human needs and concepts of health; - Identify examples of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs; - Identify purposes of human communication and critical elements of therapeutic communication; - Identify nursing interventions needed to communicate with the patient who is blind, deaf, or speaks a foreign language; - Recognize common emotional reactions to illness and hospitalization; - Identify factors of Transcultural Nursing and sociocultural beliefs about illness to include causes, cures, and nursing implications. - Cite facts related to the Surgical Experience; - Cite the nursing implications related to preparing a patient for surgery; - Understand doctor's orders for implementation of pre-operative care; - Cite from descriptive statements, the key members of the surgical team; - Identify three major classifications of anesthetic agents; - Cite complications which should be prevented in the recovery room; - Identify nursing implications related to the prevention of respiratory distress;