Nursing Operations: Structure, Preparedness, and Community

Contact Hours: 1.50 NCPD Hours

Learning Outcome(s):

After participating in this course, learners will be able to:

• Organizational Structure and Leadership Implications
  • Differentiate major organizational structure types and their defining characteristics.
  • Analyze how organizational structure influences effectiveness, communication, and decision-making.
• Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Leadership
  • Explain how nurse leaders use management systems (ICS/HICS) to coordinate response and maintain care continuity.
  • Describe key nurse leader responsibilities in disaster planning and readiness (including hazard vulnerability assessment).
  • Identify priority operational actions during a short-notice event to protect patients, staff, and operations.
• Community Health, Health Disparities, and Policy Influence
  • Assess how key determinants of health contribute to health outcomes and health disparities.
  • Explain how epidemiologic and community data can inform leadership decisions about community health needs.
  • Identify ways nurse leaders can support community engagement and influence initiatives that affect population health.

Author(s):

Sandra Swearingen, PhD, RN

Kristin Madsen, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, NEA-BC

Lynnette Leeseberg Stamler, PhD, RN, FAAN