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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the health promotion of individuals and groups from an epidemiological perspective. Nursing and health promotion theories are used as the organizing framework. Cultural and diversity factors will be addressed. RN students will develop an evidenced-based, interprofessional health promotion care plan for families.
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3.00 Credits
This course utlizes epidemiology principles of nursing and health related theories relevant to addressing health promotion at the community level. RN Students will explore concepts of social justice, health disparities, globalization, environmental factors, and genetics on the health of communities when conducting a community assessment.
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3.00 Credits
Students will design a capstone project that reflects the application, synthesis, and evaluation of concepts and nursing practice issues, including concepts of health promotion, studied throughout the program. Emphasis will be placed on the application of educational experience for professional growth and contribution to the nursing profession.
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3.00 Credits
Students will present a project proposal that reflects the application, synthesis, and evaluation of concepts and nursing practice issues, including concepts of health promotion, studied throughout the program. Emphasis is placed on applying educational experience to professional growth and contribution to the nursing profession.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the relationships between theory, nursing research, and nursing practice. The use of theory and research in the construction of a scientific knowledge base for nursing practice will be examined. Emphasis will be on the importance of research as a process for developing and examining practice-based questions, and evidence- based practice. The research process, with emphasis on the logic and processes of inquiry, design, data collection and analysis, and the interpretation, dissemination, and application of findings appropriate to nursing practice, will be reviewed. A critical analysis of nursing research and the methodological approaches utilized in the practice of nursing administration and leadership in health care will be conducted. Students will develop proposals for individual or group research projects relevant to their areas of interest.
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3.00 Credits
This course is devoted to the study of the physiological process of disease and the body's response to this process. It is the goal of the course to present broad physiological principles that advance nurse practitioners can apply to their clinical experiences. Specific diseases will be used to exemplify pathophysiological concepts, and treatment is examined at the molecular level as response to the pathophysiology. The course investigates exogenous causes of diseases emphasizing infection, inflammation, and the immune response as well as endogenous diseases of the nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, hepatic, pulmonary, and renal systems.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to familiarize graduate nursing students with current healthcare policy and the roles and responsibilities, processes and strategies, which create and support policy-based initiatives in healthcare today, and the impact of policy on health care. Students will apply the concepts gained in this course in advocacy and leadership roles in search of creative solutions to pervasive issues in health care to culturally diverse populations.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to information systems in health care organizations. Students will examine, evaluate, and utilize a variety of information systems available to the nurse administrator and leader in health care organizations. Use of information systems, standardized databases, and statistics needed for population analysis is presented. During the course, students will compare and interact with information management applications related to administration, education, practice and research. Multimedia technology and software will be used for projects related to the student's area of interest.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the role of the master's-prepared nurse in integrating broad scientific, client-centered and culturally appropriate concepts in the planning, delivery and evaluation of evidence-based health promotion and prevention services and care to individuals, families, aggregates/identified populations and global communities. Models and principles from a wide variety of sources and disciplines are examined to assist students in the exploration and evaluation of existing programs and services and in proposing new interventions and strategies to meet identified needs.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover principles of pharmacology as applied to advanced nursing practice. This includes drug effectiveness, mechanism, and interaction. Emphasis will be on the pharmacological action of drugs on specific organ systems and the clinical use of drugs in treatment of disease conditions. Emphasis will be on critical decision making skills in the selection of drug therapy, doses of drugs, routes of administration and preferred therapy. This course focuses on pharmacological implications for the family nurse practitioner in working with individuals across the life span.
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