This course integrates management knowledge, concepts, and theory with practical experience within health care situations to prepare students for beginning leadership roles in existing/emerging delivery systems. This class explores the professional nurse's role in creating the envisioned patient centered, effective health care delivery organization of the future. Students complete an experiential learning project focused on quality improvement.

Students will learn to assess the sick or injured individual as well as develop and implement a plan of care to stabilize and transport the individual to an emergency facility. Upon successful completion of the courses and state requirements, the student will be eligible to test for certification as an Emergency Medical Technician by the Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Health, Office of Emergency Medical Services. Prereq:Instr consent.

REAL III seminar is the 3rd of a series of three-core course that provides the foundational & theoretical principles of research/scholarship, ethics, advocacy/roles, & leadership. Nursing students will examine the structural, functional, financial & effectiveness of selected professional practice & health care delivery models in relationship to health outcomes while developing a philosophy of professionalism, career planning, & educational prog.

This course explores the science of the brain/body connection offering experiential opportunities through direct meditative practices. Class time includes didactic learning, interactive dialogue, and engagement in mindfulness practices. We will develop self-assessment, self-care strategies and resilience practices, within the larger context of wisdom.