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Part II: 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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Analysis of issues and best practices related to developing healthy lifestyles and behaviors in individuals, families, and communities. Selected health promotion middle-range theories and models for population health advocacy are examined.
This course focuses on the application of health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention in the care of individuals, families, and communities to affect population-based health. This includes the utilization of epidemiologic data, evidence-based practice, and health promotion models in optimizing health. It also includes the identification of the social determinants of health and their implications in creating advanced nursing actions to drive healthcare practice.
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This course focuses on the structures, processes, concepts, tools, and experiences leading to quality and safety for patient care across healthcare settings. This includes the planning, implementation, and evaluation phases of professional care from an interprofessional and organizational perspective.
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This course focuses on specialty care of children/adolescents and clients with reproductive health needs across the life spectrum. Students contract with a certified family, pediatric, and/or specialty advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), physician or physician assistant for this 100-hour clinical experience. This course encompasses wellness care of children/adolescents and management of acute/chronic child and adolescent-related health problems. Students will utilize assessment skills, develop differential diagnoses, and implement plans of care for clients with reproductive health needs, as well as provide well-woman exams and preventive care. The clinical experience focuses on the beginning development of the family nurse practitioner. NURS 642, 643, 672, 743 must be taken concurrently.
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This course is a continuation of Child/Adolescent/Reproductive Health I, encompassing specialty care of children/adolescents and clients with reproductive health needs across the life spectrum. Students contract with a certified family, pediatric, and/or specialty advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), physician or physician assistant for this 100-hour clinical experience. This course encompasses wellness care of children/adolescents and management of acute/chronic child/adolescent-related health problems. Students utilize assessment skills, further develop differential diagnoses, and implement plans of care for clients with reproductive health needs and provide focused well-woman exams and preventive care. The clinical experience focuses on the developing family nurse practitioner skillset. Must be taken concurrently with NURS 673.
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This course provides the opportunity to apply knowledge and develop skills related to the role of the family nurse practitioner in the healthcare management of clients/families in primary care settings.
This course provides the opportunity to apply knowledge and advance skills related to the role of the family nurse practitioner in the healthcare management of clients/families with complex disease states and conditions in primary care.
Integrate advanced nursing knowledge and clinical practice skills related to the family nurse practitioner role in delivering holistic health maintenance and management of acute, chronic, and complex health concerns across the lifespan. The required credits must be undertaken within 3 consecutive terms.
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- NURS 552, NURS 553, NURS 554
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Course provides students with opportunity to focus on a research problem that is related to their area of nursing practice. Students work with a nursing faculty advisor (committee chairperson) in developing the thesis proposal, writing the thesis, and preparing disseminate the results of the study. With the advisor's approval, the thesis is submitted for oral defense as part of the requirements for the MSN degree.
Learners will apply professional nursing standards and values, as well as leadership theories and styles, to foster interprofessional collaboration. They will incorporate a holistic approach as advanced professional nurse leaders to enhance healthcare delivery, improve outcomes, and address disparities.
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- NURS 521, NURS 524, and NURS 630
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This course prepares the learner to lead within the financial and policy arenas of complex healthcare systems. Emphasizing budgeting, reimbursement, resource management, and healthcare policy, learners will analyze the business dimensions of care delivery through the lens of informatics and ethical leadership. By applying financial principles and evaluating policy impacts, learners will develop strategies that promote equitable outcomes and support effective coordination across interprofessional teams.
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- NURS 521, NURS 524, and NURS 630
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Learners will use a systems-based approach in the evaluation of quality and safety data to address health care delivery system needs. Learners will implement strategies which address health care quality and safety issues impacting individual, family, and societal healthcare experiences in an increasingly complex environment. Requires entry into the program.
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- NURS 521, NURS 524, and HURS 630
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This capstone course enables students to evaluate and apply knowledge gained throughout the nursing leadership curriculum to address a real-world practice issue. In collaboration with a mentor, students will develop a project proposal that demonstrates leadership competencies and enhances the use of evidence-based practice within a healthcare setting. In addition to project development, students will engage in practicum hours in a nursing leadership role to further apply their skills and support professional growth.
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- NURS 521, NURS 524, and NURS 630
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This course provides an in-depth analysis of teaching and learning pedagogies within the discipline of nursing education. Learners will develop the capacity to integrate nursing science into the practice of teaching, with an emphasis on advancing health at the individual, family, and societal levels. Focusing on the significance of cultivating belonging through the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion as foundational to one¿s educational philosophy, instructional methodologies, and approaches to learner engagement.
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- NURS 521, NURS 524, and NURS 630
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This course develops learners' expertise in evidence-based curricular design, development, and management, with emphasis on equitable and inclusive assessment of diverse learners. Practical application of teaching and evaluation methods ensures reliable, valid, and meaningful outcomes.
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- NURS 521, NURS 524, and NURS 630
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This course explores the effective use of technology in nursing education. Learners will examine available and emerging technologies to enhance teaching, learning, and evaluation. Emphasis is placed on best practices for designing inclusive, innovative and effective educational experiences using technology. Learners will gain the foundational knowledge and skills needed to implement technology-enhanced strategies that support diverse learner needs.
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- NURS 521, NURS 524, and NURS 630
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This course emphasizes the implementation of effective, innovative learner-centered pedagogies in direct care practice. Learners will facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion through professional teaching practice. Simulations, field experiences, and online discussions will prepare learners to teach nursing in a variety of settings. Includes 180 practice experience hours with a mentor(s).
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- NURS 521, NURS 524, and NURS 630
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This course focuses on the role of advanced practice nurses in organizational structure, policy, and finance to engage in independent and productive interprofessional practice. This includes strategic planning, policy development, collaboration, and evaluation to improve outcomes for healthcare delivery systems with a focus on interprofessional leadership, economic principles, and technological innovation within a culturally diverse and inclusive lens.
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Students will integrate their technology-related background with the practical application of scientific and professional knowledge, behavior, and skills. Students will employ health advocacy strategies, principles of quality improvement, healthcare policy knowledge, and cost-effectiveness as part of an inter-professional team to analyze data and develop a strategy to impact practice improvements in order to increase the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery, improve satisfaction, or manage health-related costs.
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This elective course provides a clinical learning opportunities for the application of theory and evidence-based knowledge in clinical practice in diverse populations. Students will engage in experiences to enhance the development of their assessment and diagnostic advanced practice nursing skills.
This course prepares advanced practice nurses with the knowledge and skills necessary to lead and mentor other nurses and health care workers to promote safe, quality health care in a variety of settings and within a variety of roles.
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This course focuses on the knowledge and skills related to information systems and patient care technology that prepare the DNP graduate to manage individual and aggregate level information and assess and improve the effectiveness of nursing care.
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This course focuses on transformational leadership and leading in a culturally sensible environment while utilizing change strategies, measurement of outcomes, data driven decision-making, and the business realities of leading healthcare systems. Organizational and systems leadership skills are evaluated and tested.
This course introduces concepts of teaching and precepting. This includes essential elements of effective teaching and learning practices. It also includes the examination of innovative teaching-learning pedagogies and creation of educational experiences that facilitate achievement of desired learner outcomes for academic nursing courses and clinical precepting APRN relationships.
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