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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
NURS 566. Perspectives on Self-Help Groups Cross-listed as PSY 566 and SCWK 566. Provides an interactive format that constitutes a community resource for health and human service professionals and promotes an interdisciplinary understanding of the nature and diversity of self-help groups for persons with virtually any health problem or personal issue. Reviews contemporary theory and research, explaining the attractiveness and effectiveness of self-help groups. Panels of support group members share their experience with self-help groups on such topics as addiction, cancer and other illnesses, eating disorders, bereavement, mental illness, and parenting.
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3.00 Credits
NURS 567. Psychology of Helping Relationships Cross-listed as PSY 506 and SOC 506. Introduces students to a psychological perspective on helping relationships that will be useful in both practice and research. Topics covered include the definition of relationship, and identification of the ways in which the roles of helper and help-seeker can be structured to maximize effectiveness: e.g. power, distance, similarity, and reciprocity. Relationships of interest include: counseling and psychotherapy, nursing and doctoring, family caregiving, mentoring, self-help/mutual aid, and volunteering. The emerging topic of ¿relationship-centered care models¿ in the education of health care professionals will be discussed. Prerequisite: 6 hours in psychology including PSY 111 or instructor¿s consent.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
NURS 701. Advanced Health Assessment Designed to assist students to refine history taking, psychosocial assessment, and physical assessments skills. Focuses on assessment of individuals throughout the life span. Emphasis is placed on detailed health history taking, differentiation, interpretation, and documentation of normal and abnormal findings. Course includes lecture, discussion, and integrated history-taking and physical assessment assignments. Prerequisite: admission to graduate nursing program. May be taken concurrently with or prior to NURS 702.
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1.00 Credits
NURS 702. Advanced Health Assessment Laboratory Companion course for NURS 701. Apply history-taking and assessment skills within a laboratory setting. Emphasizes differentiation, interpretation, and documentation of normal and abnormal findings. Requires a complete history and physical examination of a client. Prerequisite: admission to graduate nursing program. May be taken concurrently with, or within one year of completion of, NURS 701.
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3.00 Credits
NURS 703. Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Nursing Practice Emphasizes the role of theory in developing knowledge-based advanced nursing practice. Relationships among theory, research and practice are addressed. The application of selected theories, models and frameworks to advanced practice nursing is discussed. Prerequisite: admission to graduate nursing program.
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3.00 Credits
NURS 705. Scientific Inquiry II Builds on NURS 703. Discusses the research process in relationship to concepts, frameworks/theories. Explores various methodological approaches to research. Considers current issues in nursing research. Demonstrates the research process in a preliminary proposal related to student's practice area. Prerequisites: NURS 703 or departmental consent and admission to graduate nursing program.
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3.00 Credits
Alternative and Complementary Health Care Analyzes the theoretical and empirical basis for various alternative and complementary modalities. Includes an exploration of issues involved with the use of specific modalities within today's health care environment. Research-based discussion focuses on how to best prepare the health care professional to provide guidance to a client and the family to best achieve a physiological, mental, emotional, and spiritual state most responsive to therapeutic interventions. Emphasizes total evaluation and support of health influences on lifestyle, environment, culture, and other cognitive, safety, and affective factors. Open to non-nursing majors.
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1.00 Credits
NURS 715. Advanced Nursing Practice Roles Designed for the student preparing for advanced practice nursing. The historical development of the advanced practice role, as well as current and future professional and legal descriptions of advanced practice nursing roles is explored. Prerequisite: admission to graduate nursing program.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Advanced Technologies Focuses on application of clinical skills and interpretation of technologies utilized in a variety of clinical settings. Nurse practitioner students practice these skills in laboratory and/or clinical settings. Prerequisites: admission to one of the NP options and departmental consent. Enrollment is limited.
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