Leadership and Clinical Decision Making for Advanced Practice
Description
This module is suitable for registered experienced nurses who wish to advance their professional practice in their chosen career pathway. This module will assist students toenhance their personal effectiveness, leadership and clinical decision-making capacity in the context of current structural and professional change in the Irish Health Services. Using a blended learning approach the module will promote critical reflection on leadership and change as well as the application of knowledge, skills and experience for safe, effective and competent decision making. Blended learning offers working practitioner’s easy and accessible opportunities to engage in further education. The module will help students gain personal insight into their own leadership style and to consider factors that influence their decisions such as person-centred care, ethical leadership and empowerment of service users. It will provide students with the required knowledge and skills in leadership and decision-making to enable them to practice at an advanced and strategic level so that they are safe and effective in their designated role.
Learning Outcomes
Evaluate and apply complex theories and concepts of leadership in leading and managing change and policy making in practice.
Develop a critical understanding of team leadership and inter-professional communication that values diversity and difference and appraises initiatives to promote service quality and safety.
Critically appraise methods and models of clinical decision-making in health and social care settings to meet the needs of a dynamic and changing health environment.
Evaluate the role of experienced nurses in providing leadership and clinical decision-making in the design, planning and implementation of services.
Evaluate the relationship between leadership and organisational culture in promoting person-centred care.
Demonstrate a knowledge base that exercises higher levels of judgement, discretion and decision making within nursing practice in the context of service user and practitioner safety and well-being.