Course description
This course will teach you the different roles that nurses play in today’s evolving healthcare settings. First, you will be given an overview of what a nurse leader does and what difference they make within healthcare delivery. Different nursing leadership skills, techniques, and approaches will be discussed so that you can gain a fuller understanding of what it takes to lead other nurses and health workers. Next, important issues in today’s nursing workplace such as transcultural nursing will be overviewed.
Next, this course will discuss the vital roles that the medical team plays within the operating room. You will learn the responsibilities as well as the necessary skills needed by nurses during different phases of the surgical cycle, from the pre-operative to post-operative phase. The course will then teach you the different types of nursing leadership styles commonly used today. Here, you will also learn about the factors that influence the productivity levels of co-nurses within the facility. Finally, you will learn the most effective teaching strategies used by nurse educators today.
This course provides excellent material for those who want to develop their nursing career. By taking this course, you will improve your nursing leadership and teaching capabilities and gain insights into the best practices used to improve healthcare delivery today. So get started and give your nursing career a real boost today.
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Training content
The Nurse As Team Leader
Description: In this module, learn about the roles of the practical nurse as Team Leader, team approach to Nursing, the facts that define Team Nursing, basic elements of team nursing, the Nursing Care Plan, leadership styles, leadership skills, and leadership qualities.
- Introduction to the Practical Nurse as Team Leader
- Team Leader Responsibilities
- Factors Influencing Productivity
The Nurse As Teacher
Description: In this module, learn more about the practical nurse as a teacher, patient teaching which is inherent to the role of nursing, facts related to Patient teaching, types of learning, principles for effective Teaching-Learning, and the functions of nursing.
- Introduction to the Practical Nurse as a Teacher
- Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Factors Which Affect Learning
- Steps in the Learning Process
Diploma in Nursing Management - First Assessment
Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
- Assessment: Diploma in Nursing Management - First Assessment
Caring In A Hospital Setting - Case Study In The UK
Description: This module looks at; the people who have roles within the hospital, how they interact with each other, patients and what they consider to be 'care', and the different approaches and contributions to care by doctors and nurses are explored and patients give their perspective on the care they receive.
- An Introduction To The Hospital
- A Day In The Life Of The Hospital Ward
- Working Together For Health In Hospital
- Qualified Nurses - Working In The Shadow Of Medicine?
- More Carers: Still Deeper In The Shadows?
Communication Skills
Description: In this module, learn more about methods and skills of communication, purposes of human communication, components of the human communication system, elements of therapeutic communication, methods of verbal and nonverbal communication, and the appropriate techniques of communication with patients.
- Introduction To Communication Skills
- Essential Components Of The Human Communication System
- Guidelines For Communicating With Patients And Their Families
- Therapeutic Communication
- Reaction To Stress And Hospitalization
Transcultural Factors Influencing Nursing
Description: Learn more about transcultural nursing, factors of transcultural nursing, sociocultural beliefs about illness, to include causes, cures, and nursing implications, and religious denominations with appropriate beliefs and respective nursing implications.
- Introduction And Major factors In Transcultural Nursing
- Socio-Cultural Beliefs About Illness
- Religious Beliefs About Illness And Death
Diploma in Nursing Management - Second Assessment
Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
- Assessment: Diploma in Nursing Management - Second Assessment
Peri and Pre-Operative Patient Care
Description: In this module, learn more about peri and pre-operative patient care, what peri-operative and pre-operativea patient care is all about, the facts related to the surgical experience, the impact of surgical intervention on the patient, and the various types and classification of surgery.
- Peri-Operative Patient Care And The Surgical Experience
- Pre-Operative Patient Care
The Intra-Operative Phase
Description: In this module, learn about the Intraoperative phase, what the Intraoperative phase is, the surgical team, the classification of surgical procedures, and the reasons for surgical intervention.
- The Intra-Operative Phase And Surgical Team
- Major Classifications Of Anesthetic Agents
The Recovery Room Phase
Description: Learn about the recovery room phase, what the recovery room is, the nursing care goals of the recovery room, nursing implications related to the general care of a patient in the recovery room, and the accommodation of patients who have undergone major or minor surgery.
- The Recovery Room
- Respiratory Distress
- Post-Operative Patient Care According to Body Systems
- General Post-Operative Implications
Diploma in Nursing Management - Third Assessment
Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
- Assessment: Diploma in Nursing Management - Third Assessment
Course assessment
- Assessment: Diploma in Nursing Management - Final Assessment
Certification / Credits
Having completed this course you will be able to:
- Identify the factors that define team nursing and the responsibilities of a team leader
- Examine the steps in the teaching learning process and what factors affect learning
- Define the principles for effective teacher-learning and the three types of learning
- Identify nursing interventions needed to communicate with a patient who is blind, deaf, or speaks a foreign language
- Examine the factors of transcultural nursing and sociocultural beliefs about illness to include causes, cures, and nursing implications
- Cite facts related to the surgical experience and its associated nursing implications
- Define the three major classifications of anesthetic agents
- Identify nursing implications related to preventing surgical complications
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