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  • 6.00 Credits

    This course focuses on the healthcare needs of communities from the perspective of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Students explore a variety of frameworks such as epidemiology, health care systems, and health care planning as conceptual bases for diverse community health nursing roles. Students will integrate the knowledge of nursing research, leadership and management, and nursing theories while embedding themselves in a community-based care setting. The final community experience consists of 60 direct care hours. Special emphasis is placed on health promotion and disease prevention. The course ends with a summative Senior Capstone Project that measures skills in communication, information dissemination, and the application of evidence-based research. The project provides evidence of the student meeting Program and Graduation competencies to be awarded a BSN.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on the integration and practical application of community/global health principles and conceptual bases for community health nursing. Students gain community-based experience in community assessment, group teaching for aggregates, and community nursing practice. The focus of this practicum is a community learning experience (CLE) at a faculty approved community learning setting. The course requires a total of twenty (20) community learning experience hours and a minimum of fifteen (15) additional hours of community learning activities. In preparation for the direct care hours students identify a community health organization, agency or facility along with an appropriate community health care mentor. Course faculty provide guidance for both the Population Health Teaching Project & Community Health Learning Experience. Course faculty are responsible for the final evaluation of the student experience. MANDATORY: All students preparing to begin this course must have a current, unencumbered, and active RN license on file in their credentialing profile.
  • 3.00 Credits

    RN to BSN students who have earned national certification in a nursing specialty or who are certified to teach CPR courses may use this experience to PLA their 3 credit NUR upper level elective.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Key to workplace learning, performance excellence, continued improvement and innovation is the personal mastery of thoughtful reflection, self-assessment and professional development among organizational members. In this course students are encouraged to create a plan for their own leadership development using a variety of self-assessment tools, mindfulness and reflection exercises to identify opportunities for their own growth and development. Communities of practice and workplace teams are vital vehicles for knowledge creation and sharing. During this course, students are also encouraged to bond with other cohort members in a community of practice focused on leading organizational learning, improvement and innovation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course aims to create consumers of published research. Students will learn to interpret, analyze and evaluate the quality of published research. Students will focus on reading and evaluating published research related to a problem of practice being considered for their dissertation projects. Students will also be expected to strengthen their writing skills and learn how to adapt their writing style to various academic and professional contexts.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Continual learning at the individual, team and organizational levels is vital to the continued success and growth any organization. Strategic advantage flows to the organization that can learn faster and manage its knowledge and talent resources more effectively than the competition. Becoming a learning organization depends on an organization's ability to create a learning culture, including the structures and processes that support learning and foster continual growth and development at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An organization's employees are its most valuable resources. This course concentrates on strategies and techniques for finding and hiring the "right" talent, then creating opportunities that motive and engage employees in the continual learning and professional growth that serves both their own and organizational development needs.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Technology can be a catalyst for organizational learning and development. This course focuses on the use of appropriate technologies for integrating learning, knowledge management, and organizational development. Case studies are used to explore how technology can be used foster curiosity, collaboration and learning at all levels of the organization. Students examine and experiment with how mobile devices, social media, various information technologies and web-based tools can be used be used to support workplace learning.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Assessment and evaluation are integral components of organizational efforts to continually improve performance, develop talent capabilities and generate innovation. The course provides students with the basic research tools necessary to design, execute, analyze, and report assessment and evaluation results needed to guide organizational decision-making and action. Assignments in the course will focus on finalizing the problem of practice identified in OLI 7101 and exploring practical solutions for addressing the problem of practice.
  • 3.00 Credits

    In this course, students use the problem of practice identified in OLI 7101 and refined in OLI 7106 as a catalyst for learning more about the nuances of various inquiry methods, especially those most useful in action research settings. This course focuses on refining inquiry questions and exploring ways of addressing the problem of practice that will lead to possible interventions for implementation in the applied dissertation research project, known as a dissertation in practice.
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