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8.00 Credits
This capstone course focuses on synthesizing nursing knowledge and public health principles as they relate to families and communities. Within a framework of epidemiology, principles of health promotion and primary, secondary and tertiary prevention are emphasized. Placement: senior year. Prerequisites: All 100-, 200- and 300-level nursing courses.
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2.00 Credits
Offers students transition strategies as they move into professional nursing practice. The course examines the role of the professional nurse with consideration given to political, social, economic, legal, and ethical dimensions of that role and the structure and process of the health care system. Issues of nursing management and leadership are integrated into the course. Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of all 300-level nursing courses.
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8.00 Credits
This capstone senior year experience is designed to examine complex clinical problems and to synthesize nursing knowledge necessary to manage them. This course will utilize two formats: seminar and precepted clinical practice. Through these experiences, the student will: integrate knowledge from the liberal arts and nursing science to study complex health problems; utilize critical thinking in the provision of competent client care; and, demonstrate self-direction by developing and fulfilling a learning agreement in both the seminar and clinical experience. This course includes theory and clinical laboratory application. Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of all 300-level nursing courses.
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2.00 Credits
This course explores the role of the professional nurse with specific consideration given to the knowledge and skills required for management, leadership, and followship in health care agency systems. Core concepts related to intra and interprofessional communication, collaboration and team building, delegation, decision making and problem solving, organizational structures, professionalism and mentoring are discussed. Political, social, economic, legal, and ethical dimentions of the nursing role and the structure and processes common to health care agency systems are explored. Prerequisites: Successful completion of Term III in the program. (2 hours lecture/week for 16 weeks.)
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8.00 Credits
Students synthesize knowledge of public health principles as they relate to aggregate health care issues in the community in this theory/clinical course. Based on epidemiological data, principles of health promotion and primary, secondary and tertiary care are examined. Health needs of different cultural groups in the community and key environmental health issues are discussed. Prerequisites: Successful completion of Term III of the program. (4 hours lecture and 12 hours clinical/week for 16 weeks.)
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2.00 Credits
This course critically examines the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for transition into practice in the U.S. health care system. Strategies for preparation for licensure and employment are discussed. A critical examination of challenges facing health care professionals is explored, with emphasis on the growing body of evidence related to evidencebased practice, error prevention/risk reduction, and client outcomes. Issues and strategies will be examined from individual, intraprofessional, interprofessional, and systems levels, including an examination of health policy related to improvement of client care. Prerequisites include successful completin of Term IV of the program. (2 hours seminar/week for 16 weeks.)
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7.00 Credits
This capstone course provides extensive practice experience designed to assist transition from student to beginning nurse clinician. Students will examine complex clinical problems and refine previously learned health assessment, therapeutic intervention and management skills in an acute care setting. Interdisciplinary collaboration, communication and accountability are examined. Students will learn to independently manage their own learning needs under the guidance of qualified clinical leadership personnel. Prerequisites: Successful completion of Term IV of the program, 300 level courses, and NURS 460 and 461. (12 hours clinical and 3 hours lecture/week for 16 weeks.)
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizes the use of statistics and data analysis; critical understanding of the meaning of statistical findings for utilization as a nurse in advanced practice; and the use of computer and data processing. Topics include: descriptive statistics, probability, hypothesis testing, parametric and non-parametric statistics, reliability and validity. Prerequisites: Successful completion of an undergraduate statistics course. (3 hours lecture/ week for 16 weeks.)
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizes the nature of scientific theories; the reciprocal relationships among nursing theories, nursing research and nursing practice; models for theory analysis and critique; and the need for future theory development in nursing. This course fulfills three hours of elective credit for the BSN or BSN-Completion program. Open only to BSN or BSN-Completion students who have been accepted into the MSN Fast Track.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the philosophical underpinnings of quantitative and qualitative research. Focuses on research designs, sampling, measurement, techniques for data analysis, and establishment of reliability and validity for both quantitative and qualitative research. Recommendation pre- or co-requisite: N500. This course fulfills the undergraduate nursing research requirement for the BSN or BSNCompletion program. Open only to BSN or BSN-Completion students who have been accepted into the MSN Fast Track.
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