· Competency 1: Explain the concepts, principles, and characteristics of effective health care leadership.

o Analyze the factors contributing to a problematic health care issue.

· Competency 2: Explain the role of health care leaders in facilitating interprofessional collaboration.

o Explain the need for interprofessional collaboration to improve the quality and safety of health care in specific instances.

o Assess the effectiveness of a particular leadership approach in building and maintaining interprofessional collaborative relationships.

o Develop a collaborative plan for improving the quality and safety of health care in specific instances.

o Determine the leader’s role in implementing collaborative health care improvement projects.

· Competency 4: Determine the influence of the practitioner-scholar role on professional practice and leadership development.

o Determine how the practitioner-scholar model might be applied in resolving a particular health care issue.

· Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.