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1.00 Credits
In this course, students lead change as strategists and decision-makers in population-based health care or health care delivery systems. Practice and scholarly inquiry are combined to influence organizational performance and health care policy. Synthesis and integration of leadership knowledge, skills, and attitudes are demonstrated within the context of the students chosen population. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Design and implement intentional changes in a health care delivery system or health care policy. 2. Clinical Judgment: Integrate critical decision-making practices to analyze, lead, and manage change in health care systems. 3. Communication: Facilitate leadership that advances the nursing profession in a complex dynamic health care delivery system. 4. Compassionate Care: Assess the influence of organizational and systems leadership on the quality and safety of patient care, proposing improvements where necessary. 5. Professionalism: Demonstrate graduate-level leadership skills, critical decision making, effective working relationships, and an understanding of systems-perspectives to address real-world problems in health care. FA, SP, SU
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes adult education principles, curriculum development, and program evaluation. The curriculum emphasizes learning-centered pedagogy, instructional design models, content organization, and the integration of interdisciplinary and regulatory considerations. Students will develop skills in assessing educational outcomes, implementing quality assurance, and improving educational programs. The course also prepares students for roles in faculty development, equipping them to mentor future nursing educators and contribute to advancing nursing education. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) ** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Design learning-centered content emphasizing quality educational experiences along with supporting faculty development. 2. Clinical Judgment: Evaluate assessment and evaluation strategies, instructional design models, and curriculum designs to enhance and support clinical judgment. 3. Communication: Explore interprofessional education, collaboration, and regulatory considerations to communicate effectively across diverse health care teams and ensure compliance with industry standards. 4. Compassionate Care: Develop strategies for student engagement by applying principles of adult learning that foster ethical and intentional interactions with all stakeholders. 5. Professionalism: Synthesize and apply principles of quality assurance and improvement in program evaluation and curriculum development, ensuring adherence to professional standards in nursing education. FA, SP, SU
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine teaching and learning theories and principles, strategies, and methodologies of education for academia. The importance of evaluating personal teaching effectiveness is explored. Integration of innovative technology applied in the classroom. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Consider key concepts for functioning effectively as a professional in an educational environment. 2. Clinical Judgment: Evaluate research through critical thinking to resolve education and practice problems. 3. Communication: Plan technological teaching and learning best practice strategies for learning-centered teaching. 4. Compassionate Care: Assess adult learners learning styles and needs to facilitate learner development and autonomy. 5. Professionalism: Integrate learning-centered teaching best practices to design and assess quality educational experiences while modeling effective professional and leadership behaviors. FA, SP, SU
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1.00 Credits
This course focuses on the role of the nurse educator. Students apply theory and knowledge of best practices to create learning-centered strategies, to facilitate and assess learning, and evaluate outcomes in academic and practice settings. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) ** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Design, implement, and evaluate teaching and learning strategies used in educational or health care settings. 2. Clinical Judgment: Integrate learning-centered principles with teaching and learning theory to facilitate teaching, assessment, and evaluation of learners. 3. Communication: Construct tools to assess learning utilizing best practices of test construction and item development. 4. Compassionate Care: Create, assess, and evaluate learning experiences which support cognitive, psychomotor, and affective development of the adult learner. 5. Professionalism: Consider the continuous feedback and quality improvement process related to the nurse educator role. FA, SP, SU
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2.00 Credits
This course focuses on the development of advanced clinical decision-making skills in health assessment, promotion, and protection. This course builds on previous knowledge and skills gained during undergraduate studies. The student will gain advanced knowledge of assessment skills within the context of the family, psychosocial, sociocultural considerations, functional ability, presence of health risk factors, and developmental stages. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Create innovative nursing protocols for health promotion and protection, disease prevention, screening, and early intervention. 2. Clinical Judgment: Integrate concepts of decision-making skills and clinical judgment for advanced health assessment and health promotion. 3. Communication: Collaborate across disciplines and health care settings to improve care. 4. Compassionate Care: Appraise the importance of health promotion and protection, disease prevention, screening, and early intervention. 5. Professionalism: Evaluate professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct when providing advanced nursing interventions and health promotion. FA, SP, SU
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3.00 Credits
This course allows students as health care leaders and educators to implement and evaluate an individualized graduate learning experience. Leadership experiences may include clinical, education, community, or professional venues. Educational experiences may include classroom, seminar, clinical, laboratory, and online venues. This course is taken concurrently with NURS 7100 MSN Capstone. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Person-centered Care: Apply advanced nursing education and/or leadership competencies in a final cumulative project. 2. Clinical Judgment: Integrate evidence-based research findings to substantiate and enhance best-practice methodologies within the practicum project. 3. Communication: Select advanced communication skills to effectively collaborate with mentors, peers, and key stakeholders while completing the practicum project. 4. Compassionate Care: Facilitate meaningful actions by relating to others with caring, empathy, and respect while conducting the practicum project. 5. Professionalism: Exhibit attributes of professionalism through ethical behavior, competence, and education and/or leadership skills. FA, SP, SU
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5.00 Credits
This course focuses on anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology to enhance understanding of movement related to activities of daily occupations. Experiences in the analysis and assessment of movement required to engage in meaningful and valued occupations are addressed and explored. ***COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)*** At the successful conclusion of this course students will: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of basic anatomic, physiological, and kinesthetic aspects of the human body related to typical movement. 2. Identify and describe various muscles of the human body including their origins, insertions, actions, and innervations in an occupation-based approach. 3. Identify and describe the major components and function of the central and peripheral nervous systems in relation to an occupation-based approach. 4. Demonstrate accurate inspection and palpation techniques of the musculoskeletal system. 5. Analyze biomechanical and kinesiology issues in human activity performance. Prerequisites: Admission to Occupational Therapy Doctoral program. FA
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3.00 Credits
This course follows the historical, philosophical, and theoretical foundations of occupational therapy as it has evolved into contemporary practice. Students apply theories, models, and frames of reference in understanding how social, political, and economic factors continually influence current and future practice. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course students will: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of historical and philosophical influences on the collective identity of the profession and evolutions of theory and practice. 2. Evaluate occupations, activities, and tasks as the therapeutic means to generate health and well-being for individuals, groups, and populations. 3. Discuss the process of theory development and its importance to occupational therapy. 4. Analyze theories, models, and frames of reference for occupational therapy practice 5. Assess theories, models, frames of reference, and approaches to practice in how they organize the dynamic interactions of person, environment, and occupation. Prerequisites: Admission to Occupational Therapy Doctoral program. FA
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the incidence, etiology, prognosis, and clinical course of disabling illnesses and injuries affecting individuals commonly seen in occupational therapy practice. Clinical, developmental, and functional implications of medical conditions will be explored in relation to the occupational therapy domain and process. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course students will: 1. Examine the epidemiology, socioeconomic, and cultural factors of health and diseases which affect the function of the individual. 2. Utilize appropriate medical and anatomical terminology to describe physical and medical conditions. 3. Appraise the genetic disorders, heritable conditions, and medical conditions which affect occupations. 4. Examine disease processes and medical conditions. 5. Apply constructs of occupation to quality of life, health promotion, and prevention of disease conditions across the lifespan. Prerequisites: Admission to Occupational Therapy Doctoral program. FA
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3.00 Credits
This course provides foundational knowledge that supports students abilities to describe and interpret the scope of the profession, appraise literature, and create new knowledge to become critical consumers of research evidence. Students will critically analyze literature and evidence to answer occupational therapy practice questions and guide decision-making and professional reasoning. ***COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course students will: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of evidence-based practice in occupational therapy practice. 2. Effectively locate, understand, and evaluate information, including the quality of research evidence. 3. Apply literature to make evidence-based decisions. 4. Compare, contrast, and critique the validity of research studies, including designs (both quantitative and qualitative) and methodologies. 5. Demonstrate the skills necessary to design a research proposal that includes the research question, selection of the relevant literature, sample, and data analysis. Prerequisites: Admission to the Occupational Therapy Doctoral program. FA
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