Nursing 4030 Nursing Leadership and Primary Health Care (Winter 2025)

This course extends the student’s ability to examine theoretical and practice concepts in nursing leadership/management and primary health care. Students discuss concepts in health care organization(s) and management and the implications of those concepts when analyzing leadership styles in a clinical setting. Students explore leadership roles assumed by nurses and examine challenges confronting nursing leaders in an era of change. Emphasis is placed on strategies to enhance nursing influence on the evolving Canadian health care system. Models of partnership, decision making, collaboration and communication and the importance of team work are stressed.

Course Instructor
Sydney Gaudet

Canadian Nurses Association (2015). Primary health care position statement. Retrieved from: https://www.cna-aiic.ca/en/policy-advocacy/policy-support-tools/primary-health-care

Abou Malham, S., Breton, M., Touati, N., Maillet, L., Duhoux, A., & Gaboury, I. (2020). Changing nursing practice within primary health care innovations: the case of advanced access model. BMC nursing, 19(1), 115. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00504-z

Duncan, M (2019). Integrated care systems and nursing leadership. British Journal of Community Nursing, 24(11), 538-542. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2019.24.11.538