NUR - Nursing
Theoretical foundations of advanced nursing practice are examined including the evolution of nursing knowledge, and examining theoretical structures from other disciplines. The role advanced practice nurses play in the healthcare system will be explored.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Explore the development of health care systems, healthy policy, and the influence of ethics and policy in population health and nursing practice, advocacy, and social justice in healthcare.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisite: MATH 500 or permission of instructor
Develop expanded knowledge of research methods and evidence-based practice to analyze and translate evidence for practice improvement and innovation to improve health and nursing outcomes.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Study of organizations and systems and the advanced practice role, including leadership, quality and safety, finance, and health care technology.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Examine the use of technology and information in healthcare and the influence on policy, regulation, collaboration, interprofessional practice, and outcomes management.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Examination of health care financing concepts to prepare the nurse leader to function in a variety of settings. Emphasizes the leader’s role in understanding, analyzing, and using relevant financial data for management decision-making.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 500, NUR 501, NUR 502, NUR 503 and NUR 504; or permission of instructor
Explore the nature and behavior of complex healthcare systems in dynamic states to develop effective strategies and skills to embrace highly effective, ethically driven, and data focused leadership. Develop skills with managing change and innovation. Includes 100 practicum hours.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 500, NUR 501, NUR 502, NUR 503, NUR 504 and NUR 511; or permission of instructor
Examine the science of improving quality, patient safety, and associated theories, methods, and tools. Apply principles of measurement, data management, evaluation, and analysis in the healthcare environment. Includes 100 practicum hours.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Credits
4.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 500, NUR 501, NUR 502, NUR 503 and NUR 504; or permission of instructor
Develop knowledge of adult learning theories to apply in the practice of nursing education.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 500, NUR 501, NUR 502, NUR 503 and NUR 504; or permission of instructor
Develop knowledge of adult learning theories to apply in the practice of nursing education.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 500, NUR 501, NUR 502, NUR 503, NUR 504 and NUR 521 (concurrent enrollment in NUR 521); or permission of instructor
Explore the issues, theories, and strategies for teaching in disciplines that require clinical learning for the development of needed critical thinking, clinical judgment., and performance abilities. Practicum hours, 100.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 500, NUR 501, NUR 502, NUR 503, NUR 504, NUR 521 and NUR 522; or permission of instructor
Develop foundational knowledge of various teaching strategies including classroom, skills labs, and the use of simulation in nursing education. Practicum hours 100.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 500, NUR 501, NUR 502, NUR 503, NUR 504, NUR 521, NUR 522 and NUR 523; or permission of instructor
Integration and application of nursing education concepts and strategies. Observe, participate, and practice in teaching in an undergraduate nursing program. Practicum hours, 300.
Credits
4.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Develop advanced understanding of a client’s health incorporating data and information from multiple sources in order to evaluate client health. Students learn how to integrate all of the data to reason towards a diagnosis, better health, and disease prevention.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Develop an expanded knowledge base in physiology and pathophysiology required for advanced practice, health promotion, and disease prevention.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Develop an expanded knowledge base in physiology and pathophysiology required for advanced practice, health promotion, and disease prevention.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 530, NUR 531 and NUR 532; or permission of instructor
Focus on developing critical thinking and evidence-based practice to achieve AGPCNP core competencies and standards of clinical primary care. Emphasis on health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction, and assessment, diagnosis, and management of common health problems among individuals, families, and communities specific to the AGPCNP role.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 530, NUR 531, NUR 532 and NUR 533; or permission of instructor. Corequisite: NUR 596A
Additional focus on developing critical thinking and evidence-based practice to achieve AGPCNP core competencies and standards of clinical primary care. Emphasis on health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction, and assessment, diagnosis, and management of common health problems among individuals, families, and communities specific to the AGPCNP role.
Credits
4.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 534 and NUR 596A; or permission of instructor. Corequisite: NUR 596B
Focus on developing critical thinking and evidence-based practice to achieve AGPCNP core competencies and standards of clinical primary care. Emphasis on health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction, and assessment, diagnosis, and management of common health problems among individuals, families, and communities specific to the AGPCNP role. The course expands to include comorbid problems in addition to common health problems.
Credits
4.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 535 and NUR 596B; or permission of instructor; Corequisite: NUR 596C
Grounded in theory and evidence the course focuses on synthesis of knowledge to achieve AGPCNP core competencies and standards of clinical primary care. Emphasis on health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction, and assessment, diagnosis, and management of more complex and co-morbid health problems among individuals, families, and communities specific to the AGPCNP role.
Credits
4.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 530, NUR 531, NUR 532, NUR 533, NUR 534, NUR 535 and NUR 536; or permission of instructor
Initial clinical practicum and seminar to develop advanced practice core competencies in a primary care clinical setting. APRN role is examined. Includes online seminar and 240 hours of clinical.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 530, NUR 531, NUR 532, NUR 533, NUR 534, NUR 535, NUR 536, NUR 596A; or permission of instructor
Second clinical practicum and seminar to further develop advanced practice core competencies in a primary care clinical setting. Integrates content and clinical experiences from all previous courses Includes online seminar and 240 hours of clinical.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer
Prerequisites: NUR 530, NUR 531, NUR 532, NUR 533, NUR 534, NUR 535, NUR 536, NUR 596A and NUR 596B; or permission of instructor
Synthesizes content and clinical experiences from all previous primary care didactic and practicum courses with an emphasis on considering context while providing evidence-based health promotion and maintenance, and clinical assessment, diagnosis, and management of more complex and co-morbid health problems among populations, including individuals, families, and communities, specific to adult-gerontology primary care practitioners. Credits include online seminar and 270 hours of clinical.
Credits
3.0
Offered
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer