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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of DFM 200, Introduction to Digital Film-Making. The final phases of pre-production will take place, including scouting, script breakdown, scheduling, and rehearsing. For the remainder of the course, students will shoot and edit the project. The film must be a maximum of 5 minutes in length.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore bioethical concepts that impact advanced nursing practice. Students will focus on ethical concepts as they apply to DNP-prepared nurses. Conceptual, factual, and normative issues will be explored to provide a framework within which arguments of biomedical ethics are formulated, analyzed, and defended. Analysis of leadership roles for DNP-prepared nurses within the context ethics and utilization of healthcare resources are explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the role of epidemiology and biostatistics in public health and advanced nursing practice. Students will learn various methods to measure disease burden, apply epidemiological principles to disease causation, organize epidemiological information to measure disease frequencies, and how to apply descriptive and analytic epidemiological methods.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine and evaluate prevention strategies, healthcare quality measures, diversity principles, and patient safety considerations related to population health. Students will explore community, environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic dimensions of care as evidenced by completion of a community based collaborative action research project. Grant writing principles will be introduced relative to the provision of improving population health at the community, state, and/or national level. 20 experiential engagement hours aligned with the AACN DNP Essentials will be completed in this course.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines complex challenges faced within the United States healthcare system and for nurses in advanced nursing practice roles. Students will be engaged in the critical analysis of health policy while building knowledge to shape healthcare system changes. Concepts and issues related to health policymaking and political processes are explored for their impact on specific spheres of advanced nursing practice. Legislative, regulatory, and healthcare delivery and financing issues are examined in relation to the advanced nursing practice leader's role in health policy development and the impact these issues have on the healthcare system.
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3.00 Credits
This course will analyze trends in healthcare economics and their impact on organizational financial practices. Students will apply financial strategies, including cost-benefit analysis, SWOT analysis, budgeting, and business plan development, to enhance the value, quality, and cost-effectiveness of practice.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a comprehensive examination of healthcare informatics. The role of nurses in advanced nursing practice roles with relation to policy making, application design, technology selection, usability, safety, security, outcome data analysis, and interdisciplinary clinical work flow integration will be explored. This course will also present strategies related to the utilization of information technology for quality improvement initiatives, evidence-based practice guideline implementation, administrative and clinical decision-making, as well as patient and clinician education.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the philosophical underpinnings for nursing knowledge relevant to advanced nursing practice. Biostatistics principles as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods related to the generation of clinical evidence will be analyzed. Students will develop refined search and clinical evidence evaluation strategies for evidence-based practice. PICOT question development provides a solid foundation for the student's DNP project.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines core quality and safety competencies for advanced practice nurses and nurse leaders. Contemporary performance/quality improvement methodologies, data reporting, and evaluating evidence-based quality health care practices for patient populations (individuals and aggregates) will be presented. Students will examine theory and organizational science concepts to assess organizational culture, analyze data, and translate findings into systems changes. 35 experiential engagement hours will be included from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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3.00 Credits
This course begins the DNP project phase of the program. Students will incorporate content from the DNP core courses to successfully plan and develop and evidence-based doctoral project. Utilizing the SQUIRE guidelines, sections 1-6 of the DNP project manuscript will be completed with a description of the problem, available knowledge, rationale, and specific aims of the project. The DNP project team will be formulated with a DNP project chair and team member. Students will be prepared to present their DNP project proposal to the DNP project chair, DNP project team, and their peers by the end of the semester. Approximately 145 experiential engagement hours aligned with the AACN DNP Essentials will be completed in this course.
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