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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course provides an opportunity for graduate nursing students to explore the philosophical and theoretical foundations in advanced levels of nursing practice. Current and future trends will be explored including information literacy, technology, quality, and safety. Interprofessional collaboration will be explored and applied to the student's professional practice. Socialization to the role of advanced level of nursing practice will be introduced.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on advanced concepts of normal physiology and pathology of major body systems and highlights relationships among systems. Knowledge of normal physiology at the cellular level provides the student with a basis for interpreting deviations from healthy states. Concepts are addressed across the lifespan. Variations from normal and abnormal pathophysiologic processes are presented.
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3.00 Credits
(Includes 25 clinical hours - Clinical clearance must be complete prior to start of course) This course explores the interconnectedness of nursing theory, nursing research, and nursing practice. Concepts related to the philosophy of science and generation of knowledge are examined. Research utilization and dissemination in advanced practice are discussed. Ways to incorporate clinically-based research are investigated. Students are introduced to data analysis using commercial statistics software programs. The use of data to apply for, administer, and evaluate grants.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on advanced concepts of normal physiology of major body systems and highlights relationships among systems. Knowledge of normal physiology provides the students with a basis for interpreting health deviations. Variations from normal and pathophysiologic processes across the life span are presented. Classifications of pharmaceuticals are examined in relation to indication for use and evidence of efficacy. Side effects, idiosyncratic effects, interactions, and allergic reactions are described. Client teaching and counseling are addressed with attention to elements promoting a positive response to therapy.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on developing advanced health assessment skills. Core concepts include promotion of health and wellness. Emphasis will also be placed on the physical, developmental, psychosocial, and cultural dimension of clients across the life span.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide students with the information necessary to ensure that curricular design, instructional strategies, and learning environments integrate appropriate technologies that maximize learning and teaching. The course provides direction for the integration of technology tools into productive learning. The social, legal, and ethical issues related to technology will be examined to apply in practice. Emerging technologies and their applications, productivity tools, using technology to enhance communications and manage information, using technology to change classroom environments, instructor roles, selection of software and licensing, and issues related to equity and open access will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus the leadership executive concentration student on organizational change in healthcare. The course will focus on basic concepts and theories in administrative leadership for the preparation of the nurse executive role. Roles and functions of the nurse executive will be explored. Organizational structure related to philosophy, goals, mission, and vision as well as accrediting agencies will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
This course will build upon the principles in the Nurse Executive Seminar I. The course will explore the nurse executive role as it relates to organizational culture in business, diversity leadership, interdisciplinary practice and relationship building at the executive level, strategic planning, quality and safety, and managerial decision-making skills. The leadership executive concentration student will further explore trends in healthcare, committee/board work, and policy development. Issues related to human resource management such as staffing, interviewing, termination, and unionization will be covered. Concepts such as shared governance, lateral violence, the expanding role of the advanced practice nurse, and budgeting for capital expense and healthcare markets will be addressed.
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3.00 Credits
Public Health Essentials provides the student with the key tenets and concepts of public health, the history of public health and central public health principles of access, equity, health promotion and prevention, policy development and quality care. Theories, practices, social, behavioral, environmental, and biological factors that contribute to individual and community health outcomes will be addressed through interactive learning strategies with the application of the concepts to understand and prevent public health problems.
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3.00 Credits
Epidemiology provides the student with an introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics as applied to public health problems. The course will introduce students to the principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation, appropriate summaries, and displays of data, and the use of classical statistical approaches to describe the health of populations. The distribution and determinants of health and disease in human populations will be explore. Epidemiological research using technology and public health informatics will also be introduced.
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