Focuses on mental health and psychosocial concepts and the responsibility of nursing in promoting and maintaining psychosocial integrity of individuals. Application of therapeutic communication and caring relationships through evidenced based nursing actions and treatment of common clinical conditions.

Prerequisites:

NURS 363, NURS 364, NURS 365, NURS 366, PSYC 101

This course provides an overview of the innovative and entrepreneurial process within healthcare environments. Students conceptualize and develop a workflow or process improvement plan that includes understanding the current state, identifying innovative solutions, forecasting financial and human resource needs, analyzing potential organizational outcomes, and designing an implementation and evaluation strategy.

Prerequisites:

NURS 286

This course provides an overview of legal and ethical issues within health informatics as related to accreditation requirements, licensure and regulatory agencies, payment and reimbursement, management and use of data, information, knowledge, and the technology used to communicate.

Prerequisites:

NURS 286

Focuses on nursing leadership and management skills, organizational structure, care processes; health policy and regulatory processes, quality improvement; and patient/family and consumer advocacy.

Prerequisites:

NURS 433, NURS 434, NURS 435, NURS 436

Focuses on nursing management of complex, multi-system alterations in physiologic integrity. This course is designed to assist students in the theoretical and practical application of the nursing process to meet the healthcare needs of patients with complex, multi-system disorder needs.

Prerequisites:

NURS 433, NURS 434, NURS 435, NURS 436

An examination of family dynamics and the nursing role focused on advanced family therapeutic communication, facilitation or family care meetings to make informed health care decisions. Examines system issues concerning health care delivery to decision maker within healthcare organizations.

Prerequisites:

NURS 433, NURS 434, NURS 435, NURS 436

Focuses on experiential learning that integrates nursing science in preparing graduates for baccalaureate-generalist nursing practice. Family nursing science is evident in the coordination and provision of care.

Prerequisites:

NURS 433, NURS 434, NURS 435, NURS 436, NURS 463, NURS 464, NURS 465

This course takes an upstream approach to population-based public health care, focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, determinants of health, and fundamental issues of health equity at individual, family, community, and system levels of practice. Learners apply public health science, principles of epidemiology, community assessment skills, systems-level thinking, and policy development to support population-based nursing practice.

Prerequisites:

NURS 320, NURS 382. RN Licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion program.

Workshop(s) with various topics and titles.

Workshop(s) with various topics and titles.

This capstone course synthesizes the underpinnings of Baccalaureate nursing education. Learners will analyze achievement of program outcomes through reflective journaling and be evaluated on the attainment of these outcomes. Learners explore leadership and management principles necessary for the professional nurse to function effectively in a changing health care system through theoretical and experiential learning. Learners plan an evidence-based capstone project that is designed to improve processes and/or enhance health outcomes while re-envisioning the professional nurse's role and personal power to influence positive change. Must be taken the last semester of the program as a final course, may be taken with other 400 level course(s).

Prerequisites:

RN Licensure; NURS 320, NURS 362, NURS 382. RN Licensure. Admission to the RN Baccalaureate Completion program.

This interprofessional course provides the opportunity for learners to synthesize knowledge, application and critical evaluation of integrative practices in providing holistic healthcare to individuals and families. The course focuses on theoretical, cultural, financial, historical, and ethical foundations. Safety, efficacy and the evidence base of integrative practices are explored. Interdisciplinary collaboration in providing integrative practices for holistic healthcare is emphasized.

This course provides clinical based learning opportunities to encourage application of theory and research bases knowledge in clinical practice. Students will engage in experiences to enhance the development of their professional nursing role.

Individual study according to outcomes developed by faculty and student(s).

Examine the roles in health informatics, information technology and analytics while striving to improve individual, family, and societal healthcare outcomes, through the gathering, retrieval, and analysis of data. Students will gain foundational knowledge regarding health, healthcare practices, safety, and compassionate care reflecting an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and care management across the health-illness continuum, across the lifespan, and in all healthcare settings.

This course prepares learners to understand advanced professional nursing roles. The professional nursing roles will be analyzed focusing on major components including educator, leader, consultant, case manager, and researcher. Socialization into the advanced professional role is explored, including an introduction to evaluation strategies, use of theories and methods of ethics, legal, professional obligations and integrating diversity, equity and inclusion, and social justice as part of the advanced nursing role.

This course examines and evaluates concepts, theories, and models that inform advanced professional nursing. Selected nursing theories are analyzed and critiqued utilizing theory formation criteria. Learners will discuss application of nursing science and conceptual models to nursing and critically articulate use of theory-based practice in family, person-centered care, and/or advanced nursing roles. Requires entry into program.

This course focuses on the knowledge and skills related to information systems and healthcare technologies. Learners will create and analyze informatics solutions utilizing clinical and operational healthcare data from individual and aggregate sources, to monitor and improve the effectiveness of nursing care. Requires entry into the program.

This course provides advanced knowledge of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and health assessment. Learners will integrate evidenced-based practice and the science of nursing related to pathophysiologic principles, pharmacologic categories, and health assessment techniques. The learner will synthesize physiology/pathophysiology, health assessment and pharmacologic knowledge in the direct care role and responsibilities across diverse settings. Requires entry into program.

The lab component of this course focuses on the development of advanced health history, physical assessment, critical thinking, and clinical diagnostic reasoning skills across the lifespan utilizing hands-on and simulated methods. This includes assessing individual, family, and community health considering cultural and ethnic factors. The focus of the precepted clinical component of this course is on the application of advanced assessment skills in a community-based primary care setting.

Course content begins with legal and ethical considerations for nurse prescribers, proceeds with presentation and analysis of core decision-making processes and advanced practices nurses use to select drugs, and finally explores clinical case management concepts involved in monitoring persons as they use prescribed drugs.

This course provides a foundation in advanced physiology and pathophysiology at the cellular, organic and systemic level. This foundation serves as a basis for clinical assessment and management by advanced practice nurses. Key concepts and integration of function among systems will be emphasized. The impact of psychosocial variables on physiologic function will be explored.

This course focuses on the development of diagnostics and procedural skills that students will use in their advanced practice nurse practitioner role. This course will build upon the knowledge and skills learned in advanced pathophysiology, pharmacology, and health assessment to facilitate the interpretation of diagnostic data and demonstrate procedural competencies necessary in the role of a nurse practitioner.

Workshop(s) with various topics and titles.

Concepts, theories, and models that inform advanced nursing practice are systematically examined and evaluated. Selected theories are analyzed and critiqued utilizing theory formation criteria. Students discuss application of nursing science and conceptual models to clinical area of focus and critically articulate use of theory-based practice in family and/or advanced nursing roles.