NURS 3700

Creating and Sustaining Change in Nursing

Introduces students to the use of outcomes data to assess the need for change, allows students to explore state and national databases to evaluate organizational quality outcomes, provides an overview of nursing and change theories to guide the process of change, and introduce methods of overcoming resistance to change. Students identify a change topic, develop a PICOT question, conduct a review of the literature, and initiate a plan for implementing a small test of change. Topics, question, literature review, and plan framework must be approved by course faculty.

Units: 2.0