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3.00 Credits
Keane / Griffiths. Permission from Department Required. This course will promote personal and professional socialization of master's students for transition to doctoral study and emphasize mentoring and experiential learning as tools to support scholarly development. A range of scholarly literature will be examined to focus on existing programs of research and related methodological concerns. Critical thinking will be emphasized. Teaching strategies will provide opportunities to confirm the purpose of doctoral study in nursing, to understand the scope of the researcher role, to define personal and professional goals, to identify the contributions of research in the development of new nursing knowledge, to understand and value the need to create the next generation of nurse scientists, and to develop productive mentoring relationships. Opportunities will be provided for dialogue and active participation with nurse researchers and definition of beginning research questions, along with the requisite skills to understand approaches to them.
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3.00 Credits
Keane; Griffiths. Permission Required from Department. This course will support students' transition to membership on a research team and foster a relationship with a research mentor who facilitates students' ability to think critically and pursue scholarly investigations. Course activities will provide opportunities to develop an appreciation of the literature supporting the research team's scholarly investigation and an understanding of the range of research team roles and activities. Course discussion and readings will emphasize the responsible conduct of research including conflicts of interest, responsible authorship, standards of research conduct, policies guiding the inclusion of human subjects, clinical trials, and data management.
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3.00 Credits
McCauley, L.; Keane; Griffiths; Porreca. Prerequisite(s): Master's-level course in research design and permission of the faculty. Permission Required from Department. This seminar provides an overview of the process of applying for external funding for research traineeships. Through a series of lectures and discussions and computer laboratories, students will prepare a draft application that incorporates the essential components of describing the candidate, a research plan, sponsor or mentor, and the training environment. Students will become familiar with the process of submitting grants, developing time frames and work plans for the completion of applications. Students will also participate in activities designed to further develop a competitive application for doctoral study.
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3.00 Credits
Rogers, A.; Riegel; Polomano; Bowles. Prerequisite(s): NURS 230 or equivalent. Also offered in 6 week Summer Session I and 12 week Summer Session I & II. The relationships among nursing theory, research and practice will be examined. An emphasis will be placed on research competencies for advanced practice nurses (APNs), including understanding nursing research methods and strategies in order to evaluate research results for applicability to practice and to design projects for evaluating outcomes of practice. An understanding of statistical techniques will be integrated into the course and build on the required undergraduate statistics course. Published nursing research studies will be evaluated for scientific merit and clinical feasibility, with a focus on evidence-based practice.
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3.00 Credits
Kagan. Prerequisite(s): Permission of Instructor Needed. This course is an intensive and focused introduction to social gerontology as a trans-disciplinary lens through which to examine aspects of social structure, actions, and consequences in an aging society. A variety of sources are employed to introduce students from any field focused on human behavior and interaction to classical notions of social gerontology and current scholarly inquiry in gerontology. Field work in the tradition of thick description creates a mechanism to engage students in newly gerontological understandings of their life worlds and daily interactions. Weekly field work, observing aspects of age and representations of aging and being old in every day experiences forms, is juxtaposed against close critical readings of classical works in social gerontology and current research literature as well as viewings of film and readings of popular literature as the basis for student analysis. Student participation in the seminar demands careful scrutiny and critical synthesis of disparate intellectual, cultural, and social perspectives using readings and field work and creation of oral and written arguments that extend understandings of the issues at hand in new and substantive ways. Emphasis is placed on analysis of field work and literature through a series of media reports and a final term paper. Creative approaches to identifying literature, analyzing field work and representing critique are encouraged. This course satisfies the Society & Social Structures Sector for Nursing Class of 2012 and Beyond.
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3.00 Credits
Aiken. This participatory interdisciplinary seminar course examines contemporary issues in public health policy and global health. The organizing framework is social determinants of health. We consider evidence that inequalities in education, income, and occupation influence health status, and the policy dilemma that broad interventions to improve population health may increase health disparities. We critically examine whether prevention is always better than cure, and what modern medicine has to offer in terms of health. We explore the public policy process in health using the "tobacco wars" as a case example, of how politics, policy, law, commercial interests, and research intersect to affect the public's health. We examine whether global health is in a state of decline, and the extent to which failures in public health, public policy, and foreign policy have contributed to increasing threats to world health. Likewise we will examine the potential for greater integration of health into foreign policy to create global infrastructure upon which to advance health. We will examine the global health workforce and the impact of widespread global migration of health professionals on receiving and sending countries. There are no prerequisites. The course is designed for graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences, health professions, public health, business and law. Advanced undergraduate students will be admitted with permission.
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3.00 Credits
Bradway; Strumpf. Individual and societal influences on the care of older adults are examined in detail within the context of an emerging health care system. Normal changes in physical and psychological health are explored in depth. Significant issues affecting care of older adults and their families at the global and national level are discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Hanrahan. Prerequisite(s): NURS 622. This course focuses on the development of knowledge and skills related to the use of psychopharmacologic agents to treat mental illness by the advanced practice nurse. Using a case study method to encourage the application of knowledge to clinical practice, the course addresses culturally diverse client populations, across the life span, who present with a range of symptom manifestations, at all levels of severity. The course emphasizes evidence-based practice, research-based clinical decision making and a holistic approach to integrating the science and biology of the mind with social and behavioral interventions. The case base method allows students to focus on specific populations such as older adults, adults, adolescents, and children.
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3.00 Credits
Sullivan-Marx; O'Sullivan; Houldin. Prerequisite(s): NURS 657. This course focuses on primary care problems encountered by middle-aged and older people and their families in ambulatory and occupational settings. Students have the opportunity to build on previously acquired skills and to apply concepts of primary care to manage the complex health problems of middle-aged and older adults.
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3.00 Credits
Sullivan-Marx; O'Sullivan. Prerequisite(s): NURS 657. Corequisite(s): NURS 646. Management and evaluation of primary care problems of middle-aged and older adults in a variety of ambulatory and occupational settings. Opportunity to implement the role of the nurse practitioner with middle-aged and older adults and their families in the community. Interdisciplinary experiences will be pursued & collaborative practice emphasized. Students are expected to assess and begin to manage common chronic health problems in consultation with the appropriate provider of care. The initiation of health promotion & health maintenance activities with individuals and groups is stressed. Includes 16 hours a week of clinical experience with a preceptor.
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