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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.
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This course introduces the roles and responsibilities of the advanced professional nurse, with emphasis on the educator, leader, and researcher. Learners will analyze core role components and examine the process of professional socialization. Topics include ethical, legal, and professional obligations, as well as the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and social justice principles into the advanced professional 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 role of technology and informatics in transforming modern nursing practice. Learners will explore the connection between nursing theory, data science, and communication to monitor and improve the effectiveness of nursing care.
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.
This course offers theoretical and simulated clinical practice to develop advanced practice assessment techniques in the health and physical assessment of persons throughout their life span. Advanced concepts and approaches for the assessment of all human body systems are addressed. Documenting advanced practice assessment findings, analyzing data, deriving differential diagnoses, and utilizing advanced clinical reasoning for diverse populations are integrated to avoid diagnostic biases.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This course is an analysis of the complex ethical and legal issues within clinical nursing practice. Emphasis is on inquiry into ethical ways of knowing and practicing in nursing. Ethical issues related to population health and health disparities are examined.
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This course focuses on the role of research and its application, utilization, and integration in nursing practice. Research approaches, designs, and methods are analyzed. Emphasis is placed on development of analytic skills for reading and applying research in advanced practice roles.
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- HLTH 675
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Students will investigate mental health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis and management in providing care to individuals and families to assess and detect actual and potential mental health problems.
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Examine information technology systems, including decision-support systems that are essential to gathering evidence to impact health and value-based clinical practice. Discover how improvement in cost effectiveness and safety depends on evidence-based practice, outcomes research, and inter-professional care coordination.
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The student will apply critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills to interpret health-related data to inform healthcare decisions and influence individual, family, and societal health outcomes. The student will experience the dynamic process of working within a team to utilize informatics to transform the coordination and delivery of care across multiple settings.
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Discover what happens when health practice and service delivery collide with the capture of data, by observing the provision of care in various settings and identifying sources of data. Students in this course will be challenged to utilize health technologies, identify and capture valuable data, and discuss meaningful ways that information can be used to enhance health education, influence care delivery, and innovate practice for individuals, families and society.
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The learner will examine the role of research and its application, utilization, and integration in advanced professional nursing roles. Learners will analyze research approaches, designs, and methods. Emphasis is placed on the development of analytic skills for reading and appraising research in educational and organizational settings.
This course examines family nursing theory, research, and practice within the context of a transcultural lens. Theoretical constructs and processes of family health are explored within the context of cultural humility and the influence of social determinants of health. Innovative and evidence-based nursing interventions and models of care to influence family health are constructed, applied, and evaluated.
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This course examines the organizational and systems structure, navigation, policy, decision-making, evidence-based practice, and leadership roles. Learners are prepared to adapt and implement organizational leadership skills, interprofessional communication and collaboration techniques, social determinants of health, culture, diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies to anticipate and respond to future trends.
This course focuses on individual, family, and population-level health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, and early detection through advanced nursing actions. Epidemiological principles, nursing theories, models, and determinants of health and illness are examined as a framework for guiding advanced nursing actions. This includes developing advanced nursing actions to address health concerns and diseases for culturally and ethnically diverse individuals, families, and communities.
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This course examines family nursing models and middle-range theories useful for family nursing practice. Theoretical constructs and processes of family health and illness experiences are explored. Family as context and family as a unit of care are analyzed. Innovative and evidence-based family nursing interventions and models of care to influence family health are constructed, applied, and evaluated.
Part I: Focuses on health promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health for adults and older adults. Emphasizes development of diagnostic, prescriptive, and management skills related to selected health problems to facilitate clinical decision making and delivery of advanced practice nursing.
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Theoretical concepts, assessments, and intervention strategies related to health among culturally diverse children and adolescents are critiqued. Health promotion/protection and nursing management of acute and selected chronic health problems of the child and adolescent are addressed.
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Management of reproductive health care needs is addressed. Health promotion and management of acute and chronic health problems are examined. The role of the health care delivery system and issues related to reproductive ethics, health policy, and research are critiqued.
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