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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
In this Independent Study course, the student will undertake studies in a self-directed mode related to professional nursing practice.
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1.00 Credits
This course is focused on descriptive and basic inferential statistics. It is designed to assist students in understanding the statistical language inherent to most healthcare research and evidence-based practice journal articles and change initiatives.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Special topics related to specific areas of study. The course may be interdisciplinary in nature, and may be repeated when the topic varies.
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2.00 Credits
This course exposes students to healthcare leadership, delivery, and reimbursement during a field experience. Students will become acquainted with public delivery of healthcare and compare to healthcare delivery in the United States. Students will discuss how providers, nurses, and ancillary health team members are utilized in delivering healthcare across the globe. The impact and comparison of patient outcomes will be analyzed between the United States and the country(s)/regions that students visit during their field experience.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to help the student analyze, critique, and apply a variety of nursing science, ethical, and transcultural theories across diverse populations. Grand nursing, biopsychosocial, moral, and diversity theories applicable to nursing practice will be explored. Awareness of the ethical and cultural considerations related to social justice, research, moral distress, and professional codes of ethics will also be facilitated.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses advanced health care ethics from an interdisciplinary standpoint. The course is interdisciplinary in nature. The course is designed to help students analyze, critique, and apply a variety of ethical theories that are relevant to the healthcare environment and healthcare professions. Students are further encouraged to consider ethics as it relates to decision-making models, social justice, research, service-learning, moral distress, professional code of ethics, and/or healthcare provisions.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on quality improvement, patient satisfaction, quality measurement, management of quality information/data, and process improvement. It is designed to develop leadership across the care continuum in diverse settings using quality and safety models, tools, and metrics. Quality and performance improvement programs and processes, root cause analysis, and risk management will be addressed. National patient safety goals, regulatory standards, survey processes, nurse sensitive indicators, and high-reliability organizational concepts will be covered. Additionally, data management tools used for analysis and trending will be viewed in relation to quality and risk management.
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3.00 Credits
Core course that broadens understanding of diversities in races, cultures, individuals, families, communities, populations, lifestyles, gender, and age groups. Explores changing demographics, major health needs, health promotion and disease prevention, and mental health issues in all cultures.
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3.00 Credits
This core course reviews theoretical foundations and research-based interventions related to health behavior, health promotion and disease prevention. Students critically examine patterns of health behaviors, risk assessment, lifestyles, developmental stages, sociocultural, psychological, and spiritual contributions to well-being. The role of nursing is addressed as related to systems and community change to prevent disease and enhance health at the community level.
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4.00 Credits
This course is the first of two advanced courses that examine alterations in human physiology which lead to adaptation and/or disease throughout the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on the physiological basis for pathological changes, the clinical manifestations which can result and the basis for treatment including pharmacological management. Application to nursing student education will also be considered.
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