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2.00 Credits
Description: Class-2 Hours/Week, Clinical-6 Hours/Week=3 CR. HR. The focus of this course explores theories and the practice of health care for women within a context of family health care. The course will focus on health promotion and acute and chronic illness conditions experienced by these childbearing and childrearing families. This course will focus on health-illness issues experienced by this population in underserved rural and urban areas. The clinical practicum experience will present the advanced practice nursing student with clinical experience in assessing, planning, and managing care for families in these age groups at a variety of clinical sites. Opportunities will be available in both the classroom and clinical setting to further explore the roles inherent to the advanced practice nurse who provides primary health care to these clients. 84 Hours of clinical/semester Prerequisites: NU702 AND NU704 AND NU706 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Class - 3 Credits, Clinical - 12 Hours/Week (Total 168 Hours)Advanced Practice Nursing Interventions for the Acute Mentally Ill. This course focuses on the advanced practice psychiatric nurse's role in the delivery of mental health care for acute mentally ill individuals and families across the life span. Theories relevant to family therapy and individual psychotherapy will be examined. Practicum experiences will focus on student application of family interventions and therapy, individual interventions and psychotherapy in acute care settings. Prerequisites: NU700 AND NU704 AND NU706 AND NU707 AND NU710 AND NU722 Credit Hours: 5 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Class - 3 Credits, Clinical - 12 Hours/Week (Total 168 Hours) Primary Care Mental Health Nursing. This course focuses on the advanced practice psychiatric nurse's role in the delivery of primary mental health care with an emphasis on promotion of optimum mental health, the prevention of mental illness, health maintenance, and preventing new occurrences of mental illness. Theories relevant to group therapy interventions and consultation will be examined. The advanced practice nursing student will develop interventions and programs that reduce stressors and maximize mental health for individuals and communities. Prerequisites: NU810 Credit Hours: 5 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Class - 3 Credits, Capstone - 1 Credit, Clinical - 12 Hours/Week (Total 168 Hours)Management of the Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill. In this capstone course the advanced practice psychiatric nursing role is further developed as the learner integrates psychiatric theory and practice skills while intervening with the chronically mentally ill in the rural community. Emphasis is on combining psychotherapeutic, pharmacological, and alternative therapeutic approaches, including crisis intervention. Through seminar and practicum experiences students incorporate the comprehensive goal of case management which is to decrease fragmentation and insure access to appropriate individualized cost effective care (ANA Standards of Care). During the practicum experiences students coordinate care and advocate for special populations of individuals, families, and groups across the lifespan. As a part of this course, the student completes a capstone project that demonstrates integration of previous learning. Prerequisites: NU812 Credit Hours: 6 CR.HR.
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1.50 Credits
Description: Class - 1.5 Credits, Clinical - 9 Hours/Week (Total 126 Hours) This is an intensive clinical internship that prepares students to practice in the role of a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Building on biopsychosocial theories, the student will deliver comprehensive holistic primary mental health care to clients. Students will conduct comprehensive assessment, including diagnosis of and referral for physical health problems. Additionally, clinical experiences will include ordering and interpreting laboratory and diagnostic studies. Comprehensive medication management of psychiatric clients will include an in-depth knowledge of psychotropic medications, acceptable prescribing practices and monitoring for side effects and efficacy. Students will present case studies with decision-making trees during seminars to explore relevant clinical and non-clinical issues. Prerequisites: NU702 AND NU704 AND NU706 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course focuses on the theoretical foundations and strategies of teaching and learning in nursing education. The graduate nursing student will explore learning theories and pedagogical frameworks that guide the selection of faculty-centered instructional strategies and student-centered learning activities. Additionally, the student will identify the differences and similarities in the learning theories specific to (a) the basic procedures of learning, (b) the assumptions made about the learning, (c) the role of the educator, (d) the sources of motivation, and (e) the way in which the transfer of learning is facilitated. Prerequisites: NU700 AND NU704 AND NU706 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course focuses on curriculum development that reflects contemporary health care trends and prepares graduates to function effectively within the context of continuously evolving nursing, health care and educational systems. In this course the graduate nursing student will design a curriculum that reflects institutional philosophy and mission, current nursing and health care trends, and community and societal needs so as to prepare nurses for practice in a complex, dynamic, multicultural health care environment. Prerequisites: NU700 AND NU704 AND NU706 AND NU830 AND NU710 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is designed to introduce learning evaluation concepts, including test and measurement, at the didactic, clinical, and programmatic levels. Course content will include strategies to assess and evaluate learning in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. Quality improvement, as well as legal and ethical considerations is explored within these concepts. Prerequisites: NU700 AND NU704 AND NU706 AND NU830 AND NU832 AND NU710 AND NU730 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course examines a variety of innovative computer technologies that support the teaching-learning process in the classroom and clinical settings. Course content includes application of information technology in nursing practice and education. Principles of distance learning, use of the internet and the integration of computer technologies to create new, innovative models of teaching will be explored. Course requirements include access to a computer and personal digital assistant (PDA). Prerequisites: NU710 AND NU730 AND NU740 AND NU838 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This is the capstone clinical course in the nurse educator track. It involves the synthesis, refinement, and application of nursing, education, and evaluation theory in a variety of educational settings and integrated seminars. The bi-weekly seminars are framed within the context of established nurse educator scope of practice (NLN, 2005) and competencies (Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing, 2002; NLN, 2005) and students apply these in a variety of diverse academic and clinical settings under expert preceptor guidance. Graduate nursing students will create and share comprehensive portfolios demonstrating their ability to plan, deliver, assess and refine effective professional education offerings in varied settings with diverse learners. Prerequisites: NU700 AND NU704 AND NU706 AND NU830 AND NU832 AND NU834 AND NU836 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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