Teaching

Over the past 28 years with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing I have taught across the curriculum; I currently teach online in the RN-BSN program. Below represents the courses I am teaching for the current semester but my teaching history is available upon request of my Curriculum vitae.

NURS4344 – HSC Management and Leadership: Bedside to Boardroom. 

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024

This course will focus on the development of nurse leaders filling an essential role in a transformed healthcare system. This includes working as full partners within an inter-professional team for improving quality, safety, fiscal responsibility, and knowledge of nursing care delivery models. Students will explore the roles and functions of nurse management and leadership theory with a focus on leader competency through self assessment. Strategies for effective communication and collaboration will be identified to develop the full potential of the professional nurse in clinical care and leadership roles.

NURS4346 – HSC Community and Public Health Nursing. 

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024

This course emphasizes population health, community health, and public health nursing concepts needed for the professional nursing practice. The focus is on the concepts of community and population assessment including health problems, risk factors, program planning and interventions. This course provides foundations for interdisciplinary teamwork and disease prevention.

NURS4349 – Nursing Jurisprudence and Ethical Challenges 

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024

This course serves as an introduction to nursing jurisprudence and ethics in professional practice. Students examine nursing practice acts, rules and regulations of state boards of nursing, legal and ethical position statements, principles of nursing ethics, professional boundaries and patient rights. Legal and ethical dilemmas as well as the duties and obligations of the professional nurse as a patient safety advocate are studied to assist the student with providing safe and quality healthcare in various settings. A brief overview of peer review, whistleblower protections, and health policy prepares the student to become more professionally engaged.

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