NURS 7711: Executive Presence

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission into MSN program or permission from program director
This course provides students with the opportunity to explore essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes to promote influential leadership in a nursing executive role. Strategies to assess and improve nursing executive impact are explored: healthcare business communication, relationship management in the healthcare setting, influencing behaviors, and business etiquette. Students explore personal attributes necessary to develop and use executive presence as a nursing leader in healthcare settings through review of current nursing literature, case studies, self-assessment, and experiences from nursing leadership experience and leadership practicums. Information and discussion on key nursing executive presence components including building trust and credibility as a nursing executive leader are reviewed.