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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Course focuses on principles of evidence-based practice and policy, practice guidelines, and information utilization for practice modeling. This information pertains to practice assessment, intervention, and the evaluation of outcomes. The course expands on basic preparation in evidence-based practice, providing advanced skills needed to implement and evaluate information available from research findings and professional consensus statements.
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1.00 Credits
Course focuses on the development of a scholarly manuscript of publishable quality to a selected publisher's standards on a topic selected by the student.
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1.00 Credits
Course focuses on identifying an external funding source consistent with the student area of focus and developing a grant application to meet the RFP or grant requirements.
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3.00 Credits
In-depth discussion of ethical issues related to health and illness encountered during stages of the life cycle, focusing on the influences exerted by cultural diversities and psychosocial factors including the bi-directional interaction between the individual and society. Grounded in a 460-year ethics-centered academic tradition, Jesuit bioethics education is characterized by two core values--respect for the dignity of the person, and justice in the allocation, administration, and delivery of health-care services.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the student with an opportunity to learn about the purpose, terminology, and process of theory development as well as the relationship between theory, research, and practice. The emphasis is on the description, application, and critique of nursing theories and other theories useful to health care.
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2.00 Credits
Graduate seminar will provide an overview of advance practice roles and their implementation and utilization in health care systems. Issues and trends related to legislation, law, reimbursement, and policy as it affects advanced nursing practice will be emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Course focuses on the development of the nurse's role in health care planning and policy and responsibility for patient outcomes. Students will identify the dimensions that impact current health care policy as it relates to healthcare outcomes. The concepts of access, quality, and cost containment will be overarching themes in the course discussions.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: NURS - 706. This is a one semester clinical practicum course that includes the application of the techniques of complete history taking and advanced systematic physical assessment utilized by the advanced practice nurse in the identification of the health needs of clients. Psycho-social, socio-cultural, and developmental assessment skills will be integrated throughout the assessment process. Ninety practicum hours are required. Clinical hours are in appropriate clinical settings with faculty approved preceptors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: NURS - 706. This is a one semester theory course that includes the techniques of complete history taking and advanced systematic physical assessment utilized by the advanced practice nurse in the identification of the health needs of clients. Psycho-social, socio-cultural, and developmental staging are integrated throughout the course to reflect age-appropriate assessment.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: NURS - 706, NURS - 707, NURS - 716, NURS - 730, NURS - 731. Corequisite: NURS - 741. This combination seminar-practicum course is the first in a three semester sequence of courses designed to provide the student with the knowledge and clinical practice relevant to the roles of advanced practice nurses providing primary health care across the lifespan. This course emphasizes health promotion, risk assessment, and disease prevention in adults. Students will have the opportunity to examine models of health and wellness, principles of self care, clinical strategies for prevention and early detection of disease, risk appraisal and behavioral modification strategies, and the assessment of the impact of cultural, socioeconomic, developmental, environmental, and occupational factors in the process of risk appraisal and choosing appropriate health promotion interventions. Critical analyses of health promotion/disease prevention strategies will be accomplished through application of research data and various theoretical frameworks. The concurrent clinical practicum will provide students with an opportunity to implement course content in diverse practice settings that emphasize the principles of prevention and health promotion.
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