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Course Criteria
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
Students will continue to develop in assessment, communication, and observational skills to identify alterations in health and physical deviations in individuals, families, and communities. The course will use critical thinking, systems, and case study approaches to assist students to determine fulfillment of human needs and physiological, spiritual, cultural, and psychosocial functioning and integrity. Ability to use health assessment to promote, maintain, and restore high level wellness and prevent disease across the life span will be emphasized. The ability to make differential diagnoses and apply epidemiological concepts is emphasized. Credit, three hours.
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2.00 Credits
Exploration of system-focused pathophysiology and disease processes. Mechanisms of disease serves as an important foundation for clinical assessment, decision making, and management. The student ability to relate the knowledge to the assessment of an individual's response to pharmacologic management is emphasized. An integration of both pathophysiology and pharmacology is the focus of the course.Credit, four hours.
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3.00 Credits
The course will provide students with in-depth knowledge and skills necessary to have understanding of pharmacological and principles and responses to drugs at the cellular levels of human functioning. Knowledge necessary to analyze relationships between pharmacological agents, physiology, and treatment of common disease processes are emphasized. An understanding of the legal requirements for writing prescriptions as advanced practice nurses is an important focus of the course. The course is only required for students seeking certification as clinical nurse specialist. Credit, three hours.
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2.00 Credits
Enhance students' knowledge of the ongoing changes in health care and policy development. An understanding of how health policy is formulated and the process impacts clinical nursing practice and health care delivery is emphasized. Preparation of students to provide cost effective care, to participate in the design and managing human, fiscal, and physical health care resources is explored. Assuming the leadership role in addressing health care delivery, issues related to poverty, cultural differences related to health care disparities, and outcomes of patient care are analyzed. Credit, two hours.
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2.00 Credits
This course provides graduate level students with advanced knowledge of physiological responses to drugs used in the treatment of disease. Issues of drug interactions, polypharmacy, drug misuses, and abuse are explored. The nurse's role in facilitating client compliance to treatment regimens is emphasized.Credit, two hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prepare the advanced practice nurse to utilize evidence based and new knowledge to provide high quality health care, initiate change, and improve nursing practice. Proficiency in the utilization of research and statistical processes to evaluate research findings, problem identification within clinical practice settings, and awareness of clinical practice and outcomes is developed. The clinical application of research and concepts of epidemiology, specifically to solving public health problems in communities are emphasized.Credit, three hours.
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4.00 Credits
A graduate level clinical course in community and public health nursing. Theoretical and conceptual frameworks in this specialization, and interventions related to primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of health problems in a variety of community health settings are explored. Application of conceptual models and epidemiology, and the nursing process will be used by advanced practice nurses to provide to communities, families, and individuals care that promotes the highest level of health possible are utilized. National and international aspects of health care will be emphasized. Credit, four hours.
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3.00 Credits
The role of nurse educator and theories and principles of teaching and learning are explored. Program planning and evaluation of undergraduate and other nursing education programs are emphasized. Historical and current trends, educational research findings, and applications to changing societal forces that influence students and faculty are emphasized. Credit, three hours.
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3.00 Credits
Theories and principles of curriculum development as they apply to nursing education, planning, implementing, and evaluation of undergraduate academic and other health related education programs are explored. Credit, three hours.
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3.00 Credits
The course covers the exploration of the program evaluation process in nursing practice and its relationship to ongoing quality improvement of community health care and nursing education. Development of reliable and valid measures of learning and health behaviors resulting from nursing interventions including health care and teaching and learning processes are emphasized. Credit, three hours.
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