SIENA COLLEGE TAYTAY

College of Nursing

HEAD NURSING
Description:
This course incorporates nursing leadership and management towards its all aspects to
facilitate enhancement of competence and effectiveness of students as a nurse in providing
quality and compassionate nursing care.

General Objectives:
• Attain a symbiotic relationship among the students, head nurses, clinical instructors and
hospital staff in which learning is facilitated toward attainment of competency in
rendering quality care to individuals and family within the health care delivery setting.

Specific Objectives:
• To have an introduction between head nurses and student nurses in cooperation
with the clinical instructor.
• To orient the student nurses in the assigned hospital area, the setting, the tasks and
responsibility assigned upon them.
• To motivate the students through a reward-system based leadership style.
• To encourage the students to draw upon their accumulated personal experiences to
present an evidence-based case presentation through a questionnaire.
• To provide refreshment and enhancement of nursing principles for the nursing
students through Pre- Test and Post- Test.
• To further enhance preservation and retainment of nursing skills and principles
through assignment, project, report and requirement.
• To promote an individualized primary care to attend the needs of the patients.
• To assist in giving medication with the supervision of Clinical Instructor and
utilize nursing process to improve the quality patient care.
• To apply the Core Competency Standard that will serve as a unifying framework
for nursing education, regulation and practice.
• To demonstrate the vision/mission of the school which is service oriented,
research motivated, technology enable and Marian inspired.

“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made of high
Prepared by BSN 4-A1 Head Nurses: Ms. Jillianne M. Bertiz SN efforts, which is the price that all of us must pay to achieve
Ms. Csarra Lou Broncano SN any goal that is worthwhile. –V.Lombardi
 SIENA COLLEGE TAYTAY
College of Nursing

“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made of high
Prepared by BSN 4-A1 Head Nurses: Ms. Jillianne M. Bertiz SN efforts, which is the price that all of us must pay to achieve
Ms. Csarra Lou Broncano SN any goal that is worthwhile. –V.Lombardi