title: Transforming curriculum for a nursing leadership course: a collaborative approach.
abstract: The purpose of this project was to strengthen the transformational leadership competence of students by incorporating perceptions of all course participants in the curriculum of a nursing leadership course. Students and faculty collectively assessed each other's ability to communicate, associate, sanction, delegate, initiate, and achieve external legitimacy by completing a Leadership Performance Competence Profile. Profile results guided the teaching strategies and activities used during the course. At the beginning of the course the sanction competence was perceived as a mutual weakness; at the end of the course perceptions of all six leadership competencies were stronger. End-of-course student satisfaction was also examined. This project suggests collaborative teaching strategies can enhance perceptions of competence and satisfaction of course participants.
authors.affiliation: Dominican College, Division of Nursing, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA.
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: DeSimone
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D007857:Leadership; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011361:Professional Competence