Abstract

The multitude of players, rules, and economic factors involved in organizing and delivering healthcare in the US today requires a highly skilled workforce, who can go above and beyond excellence at the practitioner level by acting as change agents to continuously improve the systems in which they work. Early acquisition of quality and safety competencies, along with leadership and inter-professional collaboration, systems thinking, and health economics are essential for preparing new nurses for the demands of their future jobs. Using these competency domains as a framework for evaluation, the purpose of this descriptive study was to examine program coordinators' assessments by comparing them across all types of nursing programs.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 1560112; ProQuest document ID: 1558183956. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Franco Herrera, MS, RN, ITIL, CPHIMS

Sigma Membership

Non-member

Type

Thesis

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Descriptive/Correlational

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Pre-Licensure Nursing Education, Change Management, Healthcare Improvement, Health Economics

Advisor

Debra Bakerjian

Second Advisor

Deborah Ward

Third Advisor

Elena O. Siegel

Degree

Master's

Degree Grantor

University of California, Davis

Degree Year

2014

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2022-05-09

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