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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
In this course, the student applies knowledge and skills previously learned to function as a provider of comprehensive primary health care to individuals and families across the lifespan within the context of the community. Emphasis is on the assessment of the health state, nursing and medical management of common acute and chronic healthproblems, health education, health promotion, and disease prevention.
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1.00 Credits
The focus of this course is on the synthesis of role theory and issues unique to the role of the advanced practice nurse. Professional issues, models of practice including the Synergy Model, and the role of the advanced practice nurse in primary health care and health promotion in regard to the competencies of clinical judgment, advocacy, caring, collaboration, systems thinking, diversity issues, and facilitation of learning within the clinical practice are emphasized.
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4.00 Credits
In this course, the student fuctions as a provider of comprehensive primary health care and provides evidenced based practices to prevent disease, promote, maintain, and/or restore the health of clients and/or families within a setting of the student's choice. The student applies knowledge and skills previously learned and continues to develop and refine competencies for primary care nurse practitioner practice that build on client, nurse, and health care systems outcomes as explicated in the Synergy Model.
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1.00 Credits
The focus of the course is on the synthesis of role theory and issues unique to the specific role of the advanced practice nurse practitioner. Management of clinical cases will be emphasized, based on theoretical understanding of professional ethical, legal and social issues, as well as models of practice, the synergy model in regard to systems thinking and the role of the nurse practitioner in health care management and health promotion.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the various roles of the forensic nurse in order to research patient characteristics and nursing competencies elucidated in the synergy model. Interactions among patient characteristics of vulnerability, resiliency, stability, complexity, resources, participation in care and decision making, and predictability of diverse forensic patients will be explored. The integration of scientific, ethical, and legal principles into nursing practice will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on advanced concepts in forensic nursing in order to provide nurses with more in depth understanding of patient, nurse, and health care outcomes. Patient outcomes include functional and behavioral changes, trust, satisfaction, comfort and quality of life. Outcomes that are derived from nursing competencies include physiological changes, complications and the treatment objectives obtained. System outcomes include admission rates, hospital stay and cost of health care per case.
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1.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to prepare students to understand the various roles of the forensic nurse based on the scientific, ethical, and legal principles related to forensic practice. The course focuses on the advanced practice role that nurses can assume in the community and health systems that incorporate the knowledge and skills acquired through the advanced study of forensics.
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0.50 Credits
This course introduces the legal process and the roles of the lawyer and forensic specialist and the rules of conduct that guide them. The course will prepare nurses to interface with the legal system. The sources of law, federal and state legal systems, civil and criminal systems, interaction between the law and forensic science in the courtroom, fact versus expert witness, and tasks of the fact finder will be reviewed.
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1.00 Credits
This course introduces the multiple functions of forensic science professionals. The recognition, collection, analysis and preservation of physical evidence are presented. Forensic science includes chemistry, biology, physics, and geology in areas of forensic pathology, psychology, odontology, anthropology, entomology, psychiatry and engineering.
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4.00 Credits
This provides an extensive examination of criminal law and forensic science with crime scene investigation procedures. Forensic evidence collection, laboratory testing, chain of custody, and the implications for legal out-comes are presented. Methods of evidence collection in a variety of settings are delineated and the implications for forensic nurses in crime scene reconstruction, death investigation, toxicology, hair and fiber analysis, DNA, ballistics, arson, cyber-crime, psychiatry and psychology, bioterrorism, odontology and anthropology, linguistics, and entomology.
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