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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Through the creative use of the synergy model student explores ways to enhance patient outcomes through, primarily, facilitating learning and exploring system wide issues to enhance patient outcomes. Students are presented with an over- view of educational and administrative principles, theories, and processes so that they can begin to understand the role of the nurse educator and the role of the middle manager in the health care arena.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an emphasis on research designs and methods in health care. The student has an opportunity to focus on a nursing problem from the perspective of quantitative and qualitative research traditions. A variety of methods and designs will be examined and critiqued in order to provide safe passage of patients through the health care system and research process. The student will identify and/or refine the topic and content that will be developed for the scholarly project. The synergy model will be discussed in regard to how it can guide research, evidence based practice and cultural competence.
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2.00 Credits
This course provides the opportunity for the student to develop nursing research skills through participation in an ongoing research project. The research practicum is planned by the student, faculty and /or nurse researcher and is based on the objectives developed in an individualized learning contract according to the student's previous experiences and professional goals, and the available learning resources. A variety of topics related to the research process are discussed. (Throughout the course ways in which the synergy model can be used to guide research, engage in clinical inquiry, participate in evidence based practice, collaborate with others, and respond to diversity are emphasized.)
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the nurse's practice as realized in the moral agency of individual nurses. The process involved in nurses helping patients/families make ethical decision involves a synergy between the nurse's competencies and the patient's characteristics. Rights and the importance/necessity of context are explored. Select ethical systems such as deontology, utilitarianism, cultural/social relativism, and emotivism are analyzed as to their usefulness in health care decision making and their compatibility with the synergy model. Case studies illustrate differences in intent, process, and consequences among and between ethical systems. Husteds' bioethical decision making theory of symphonology (the study of agreements) is evaluated as a practice based contextual bioethical system. Those students enrolled for three credits will additionally explore autonomy as an adjunct to bioethical decision making; examine the bioethical standards as virtues of all humans; determine the philosophical under- pinnings and strategies of symphonology theory development; and conduct personal inquiry of interest.
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3.00 Credits
Etiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations of disease process will be presented within the framework of the Synergy Model. The interaction between patient vulnerability and patient resiliency in will be emphasized in explaining major pathophysiological conditions across the life span. The effects of compexity and predictability on patient outcome will be highlighted when appropriate. This approach will enhance nurse competencies to assess and evaluate physiological changes, presence or absence of complications, and the extent to which the desired outcome of care and or treatment are attained. Most importantly, this approach will facilitate ongoing learning.
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on components of the synergy model and theories of physical assessment cross the life span. The emphasis is on selected physical and behavioral science principles, and techniques used to develop a client data base. The clinical component of the course includes experiences in obtaining, evaluating, presenting, and recording a comprehensive client data base. Emphasis is on health promotion, preventive interventions including screening test, counseling interventions, immunizations and chemophylactic regimens and comprehensive planning of culturally appropriate primary health care across the life span. This is accomplished by identifying health related stressors in terms of the individual, the family and community and formulating a list of client health, counseling and teaching needs, risks, and problems.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of pharmacology are applied to advanced nursing practice with individuals and families. The effects of pharmacological agents on individuals throughout the life span are discussed. Utilizing clinical judgment, prescribing and monitoring of drug regimens in treatment of disease states and/or primbary health care are presented. Potential drug interactions as a consequence of multiple drug regimens are included. Significant adverse reactions, dangers inherent in self-medication, as well as overuse of commonly prescribed drugs all address the synergy model concept of complexity. Finally, the role and responsibilities associated with advanced nursing practice in prescribing pharmacological agents and monitoring and evaluating patient responses, including clinical judgment and inquiry, are identified and discussed. Concepts of the synergy model that address patient resiliency, vulnerability, and stability will be incorporated throughout the course.
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1.00 Credits
Students are introduced to the Synergy Model for Patient Care through a comprehensive overview of the subject. Students examine the characteristics of the model and the relationship to nursing practice, administration, and education is explored. The school's organizing framework, the Synergy Model for Patient Care, will be examined in relation to patient characteristics and nurse competencies.
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3.00 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. Specifically, this course focuses on the advance leadership positions that nurses assume in the community and health systems that incorporate the knowledge and skills acquired through the advanced study of forensics. The course uses a case mehtod format to address such issues as cultural aspects of trauma, forensic pathology, clinical forensics, and equivocal death.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines models of psychiatric-mental health nursing from a holistic perspective and uses theory from nursing, related sciences and law to develop theoretical frameworks for guiding advance nursing practice. Clinical therapeutics focuses on indiviuals mental health and individual functioning-both the victim and the perpetrator. Theories and research about individual strengths and dysfunctions are examined. Clinical therapeutics focuses on use of interventions for maintaining functional and altering dysfunctional patterns of responses with the individual.
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