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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Clinical Nurse Leader MSN degree program. This theory course focuses on the clinical leadership skills and knowledge required to provide health care delivery to vulnerable populations. Emphasis will be made on the creation of micro systems needed to manage the health care of individuals, groups, and population aggregates within community settings to improve health outcomes, and to lessen health disparities. Students will analyze primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention nursing interventions that are appropriate for clients across the lifespan. Recognition will be made with respect to the way in which clients can differ in their ability to perceive, cope, and understand the meaning of their symptoms that can affect outcome. The client/family/aggregate will be examined in terms of their need for health promotion, treatment, or maintenance of physiological problems and/or acute and chronic mental illness. Research and epidemiological data will be employed to formulate outcome-based practice and quality improvement strategies.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Clinical Nurse Leader MSN degree program. This community based practical application course focuses on clinical leadership skills and knowledge required to care for clients experiencing complex physiological and psychological problems. Nursing interventions and clinical leadership in the care of vulnerable populations are emphasized. Care customization, community partnerships, and accountability for outcomes, client advocacy, and community health risk assessments are some of the skills required for successful completion of this course. The use of evidence-based practice and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams are two of the methods used to strengthen decision-making skills while working within community mental health.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Clinical Nurse Leader MSN degree program. This course integrates leadership and clinical management concepts to provide a context for implementation of the full CNL role in complex systems.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Clinical Nurse Leader MSN degree program. This course focuses on the values, codes, and principles that govern the practice of the Clinical Nurse Leader. Emphasis will be placed on the skills and knowledge and the obligations of the CNL role in health care planning and policy. Students will identify the ethical dimensions and dilemmas that impact the current health care milieu, the practice of nursing, and the delivery of health care. Concepts related to access to healthcare, quality of life, the need for cost containment, national health care policy, and the rights of clients will be discussed.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Clinical Nurse Leader MSN degree program. This clinical application course offers an extended clinical experience mentored by an experienced clinical nurse leader. This integration experience reflects the current health care delivery system and provides the student with the opportunity to practice in a chosen health care environment(s). The focus is on taking primary responsibility for the design, coordination, and management of health care appropriate to the client/patient population. Communication, collaboration, negotiation, delegation, coordination, and evaluation of interdisciplinary work skills will be integrated within the practice setting. The students design, implement, and evaluate a CNL project which reflects the skills essential to the application, design, and evaluation of an outcome-based practice model.
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2.00 Credits
Clinical application course offers an extended clinical experience mentored by an experienced clinical nurse leader. This integration experience reflects the current health care delivery system and provides the student with the opportunity to practice in a chosen health care environment(s). The focus is on taking primary responsibility for the design, coordination, and management of health care appropriate to the client/patient population. Communication, collaboration, negotiation, delegation, coordination, and evaluation of interdisciplinary work skills will be integrated within the practicesetting. The students design, implement, and evaluate a CNL project which reflects the skills essential to the application, design, and evaluation of an outcome-based practice model.
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3.00 Credits
This core course focuses on the development of the family health clinical and administrative nurse's role in health care planning and policy and the ethical considerations affecting this process. Students will identify ethical dimensions which impact on current health care policy as it relates to family health nursing and its effect on the practice of nursing in general. The concepts of access, quality, and cost containment will be overarching themes in the course discussions.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the foundational concepts of leadership and management as used by Advanced Practice Nurses in various health care settings. A systems theory approach will be used to examine the skills expected of nurse managers. Included in this examination of organizations and management will be the discussion of the role of nursing informatics, basic budgeting, human relations, nursing care delivery methods, and power.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in either the M.E.O. or M.S.N. degree programs. This is a one-semester theory course that provides an overview of advanced concepts related to normal body functioning. The course also focuses on physiologic phenomena related to human responses to health and illness.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the clinical application of pharmacology needed in the provision of advanced practice nursing. The emphasis is on drugs commonly used in the family practice of ambulatory primary health care for the treatment of chronic diseases and minor acute illnesses, and on the integration of drug therapy as one component of therapeutic management plans. Patient teaching and methods to increase adherence to medication regimens are also included. The application of the principles of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics to clinical use of drugs will be explored, including therapeutic dosage patterns, side effects, drug interactions, contraindications, and the use of drugs in special populations such as children, the elderly, and the pregnant patient. Entering students are assumed to have had previous baccalaureate instruction in pathophysiology and pharmacology.
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