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Course descriptions

Expand and Collapse Required Courses

Expand and Collapse BIO 5777 - Independent Study

Advanced Pathophysiology is a course intended to broaden and deepen the students' knowledge of the normal and abnormal functional processes of the human body. The subject of study assumes a prior understanding of basic physiologic principles that is, in turn, built upon knowledge of cellular function and biochemical mechanisms. The ultimate goal of the course is to prepare students to visualize the mechanical functioning of the body in health and disease so that they may better understand the principles of prevention and treatment.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6605 - Theorizing Nursing Practice

A critical investigation of concepts, middle range theories, and family theories used by advanced practice health care providers in health promotion and disease prevention interventions with clients and families to achieve health outcomes.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6609 - Continuing Enrollment

Continuation of NSG 8205. Designed for students who do not complete their DNP clinical project within the designated time frame. Students register for continuing enrollment each semester while completing their work. The fee for continuing enrollment equals the tuition for one graduate semester credit. Prerequisite: NSG 8204.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6610 - Theor Hum Dev Across/Lifespan

This course explores theories of human development across the life cycle from psychoanalytic, relational, interpersonal, sociocultural, cognitive, biological, and evolutionary perspectives. Emphasis is placed on the application of these theories to health promotion in advanced nursing practice in a multicultural society.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6627 - Health Assessment Adult

Advanced physical, psychological, social and developmental skills necessary for primary care practice with adult clients. Principles and techniques of data collection, communication and physical examination are emphasized. Basic laboratory and diagnostic procedures are explored. Web-based course on campus seminars, 45 laboratory hours.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6671 - Rural Health

Focuses on rural health and rural health issues related to health care and health care delivery. The role of the Advanced Practice Nurse in the delivery of health care to rural populations is explored. Issues and trends in rural health and rural health care delivery are investigated.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6677 - Advanced Pharmacology

Focuses on the clinical application of advanced pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics across the lifespan for common disease conditions encountered in primary care settings. Uses a body systems approach and includes principles of altered pharmacodynamics related to age, race, and ethnicity. Explores principles of pharmacotherapeutics used by advanced practice nurses, including pharmacodynamics, client assessment, and decision-making processes for appropriate drug use, monitoring, and client education. Includes cost/benefit analysis of pharmacological intervention.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8000 - Leadership in Health Care

Study of various dimensions of leadership and how they apply to the health care environment. Includes theoretical models and their application to nursing models of practice, personal and organizational integration of values, key aspects of creating and sustaining a learning organization, and leadership as partnership and teamwork.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8200 - Outcomes Research

Knowledge and skill development in the evaluation of quantitative research studies and the translation of outcomes research into practice. This course emphasizes applying current theoretical models and research to clinical practice.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8201 - Clinical Project I

Phase one in a two-phase process that culminates in the defense of a doctoral-level applied research project. DNP Clinical Project I focuses on developing a literature review, a beginning needs assessment, and a problem statement that will prepare students to develop an implementation and evaluation plan that is designed and carried out in DNP Clinical Project II. Students work with class colleagues and the course instructor to develop an integrated literature review and problem statement based on a needs assessment in an area of interest. Attendance is required at webinar sessions designed to facilitate processes essential to the development of a clinical project proposal for a quality improvement, evidence-based, outcomes-oriented systems change.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8202 - Ethics in Health Care

Analysis of both empirical research and philosophical inquiry in health care ethics with due consideration for human diversity and social context. Exploration of current ethical issues, including relevant contextual factors, within the health care disciplines broadly, and within the student's area of clinical practice and scholarship specifically. Emphasis on the socially organized practices of responsibility that influence ethical decision-making and their implications for health care delivery within the professional domains of administration, clinical care, policy and education. This course focuses primarily on the ethical problems of nursing practice. It is designed to help students increase their knowledge of the domains of ethical experience, articulate the ethical issues they experience in practice, and justify the reasons for taking one course of action over another. Readings are taken from moral philosophy, bioethics, nursing, feminist theory, and social science.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8204 - Clinical Project II

Phase two in a two- phase process in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the DNP clinical project, culminating in completion of a sustainable system change, quality improvement, and outcomes-oriented, evidence-based, clinical project. Students apply principles of outcomes research in the clinical setting while refining and implementing the DNP clinical project proposed in NSG 8201. Students work with faculty to refine the project proposal (through a series of steps/assignments). Students will implement and evaluate the scholarly project independently under the guidance of a faculty advisor and with the assistance of a clinical expert/systems mentor. Course includes formal presentation, critique, and defense of the scholarly DNP clinical project.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8352 - Performance Management in Heal

Examines the concept of performance management and its application to the health care industry for both larger health care organizations and smaller health care settings. Issues related to the extreme pressure exerted by both purchasers and regulatory agencies for healthcare organizations to improve its performance will be analyzed.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8355 - Healthcare Finance

Covers finance issues related to healthcare organizations, such as: reimbursement analysis, understanding the nature of costs, service line profitability analysis, and preparation of operating and capital budgets. Students learn how to analyze financial statements and their relationship to organizational decision-making.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8420 - Organizational Behavior

Explores the behavior of people within organizations in terms of the factors that are most influential. Those include factors related to individuals, groups and the larger organization system. The course utilizes an experiential learning process that helps students understand their strengths and weaknesses as learners.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8420 - Organizational Behavior

Explores the behavior of people within organizations in terms of the factors that are most influential. Those include factors related to individuals, groups and the larger organization system. The course utilizes an experiential learning process that helps students understand their strengths and weaknesses as learners.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8470 - Health Program Evaluation

Program evaluation is the systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and outcomes of programs to make judgments about the program, to improve program effectiveness, and/or inform decisions about future programming. As this definition emphasizes, the course focuses on evaluating programs or interventions where information from individuals is aggregated to summarize a group’s progress and to draw conclusions about program effectiveness.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8530 - Clinical Workflow & Process Re

This course is designed to provide healthcare and health information technology professionals with the theory and tools necessary to effect the clinical transformation required for the successful adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). EHR systems are significant investments that must be planned and implemented in a manner that ensures positive outcomes. EHR systems are not just financial, administrative, or operational systems that focus on healthcare departmental tasks, nor are they electronic means to achieve documentation. Instead, EHRs are knowledge management systems, directly impacting the way clinicians practice. As such, clinical processes must be understood and redesigned to take advantage of the support afforded by information technology.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8660 - Nursing Management

Integration of organizational and management theories within the context of the nursing process to the delivery of nursing services in a variety of settings and systems. The role of the advanced practice nurse in various levels of management is analyzed and required core abilities required of the manager are emphasized. Factors affecting the dynamic changes in the health care system and delivery of nursing care are integrated.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8675 - Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Knowledge and skill development in the evaluation of quantitative research studies and the translation of outcomes research into practice. This course emphasizes applying current theoretical models and research to clinical practice.

Expand and Collapse NSG 8680 - Leadership Seminar

Facilitates the transition of graduate nursing students to advanced clinical practice. Emphasizes the concrete goals and tasks of the transition to practice as well as the transformation of identity from student to independent professional. Identifies the nature and scope of professionalism in the discipline. Provides an opportunity for networking with student colleagues statewide and for the creative visioning of an independent, nurse-run, multispecialty outpatient clinic for the delivery of collaborative primary care. Prerequisite: Enrollment during the semester in which graduation is scheduled.

Expand and Collapse Concentrations

Expand and Collapse Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner (ANP/GNP)

Expand and Collapse BIO 5125 - Biology of Aging

Biology of Aging is a course designed to allow study and understanding of the principles of aging applied to the anatomical and physiologic systems of the body. The course is divided into three portions; (1) Examination of the basic principles of aging from the population level; (2) Events of aging seen at the cellular level; and (3) Events of aging observed at the system level of the body.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6633 - Theoret Found Geront NSG

Analysis and application of theory and research related to health assessment and health promotion of older adults. Implementation of evidence-based advanced physical, psychological, social and developmental assessment techniques necessary for health promotion and illness prevention activities along with diagnosis of acute, chronic and functional health challenges with the older adult. Web-based course on campus seminars: 15 didactic hours. Prerequisite: Post-master's status or enrolled in master's program at CSS. Pre or Co-requisite: N6627.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6635 - Pharmacology: Older Adults

Application of theory and research related to advanced gerontological pharmacotherapeutics. Includes pharmacologic and non pharmacologic interventions in the management of acute, chronic physical and mental health disorders for the older adult. Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics in relation to the physiological changes in the older adult are stressed. Assessment, decision-making processes and client education for appropriate drug use are addressed. Web-based course on campus seminars. Prerequisite: Post-master's status or enrolled in master's program at CSS. Pre or Co-requisite: NSG 6605, NSG 8200, NSG 8675, N6633, N6677 or equivalent

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Expand and Collapse NSG 6683 - Primary Health Care Mgt II

Knowledge and skills necessary for prevention and management of acute and chronic illnesses in adults and older adults. Underlying pathophysiologic and psychosocial bases for occurrence and detection are addressed with emphasis on management of common acute and chronic illnesses. It is required that NSG 6627 be taken within one year of this course, otherwise remedial work will be required Web-based course on campus seminars. 180 clinical hours. Prerequisite: NSG 6605, 6610, 6627, 6677, 6681 (FNPs only), 8200, 8675, BIO 5777.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6687 - Nurse Practitioner Preceptrshp

Intensive clinical experience with a focus on prevention, health promotion, client education and illness management of individuals and families. Web-based course on campus seminars. 200 clinical hours. Prerequisite: NSG 6683, 6681, and 6685 (FNP).

Expand and Collapse Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)

Expand and Collapse NSG 6633 - Theoret Found Geront NSG

Analysis and application of theory and research related to health assessment and health promotion of older adults. Implementation of evidence-based advanced physical, psychological, social and developmental assessment techniques necessary for health promotion and illness prevention activities along with diagnosis of acute, chronic and functional health challenges with the older adult. Web-based course on campus seminars: 15 didactic hours. Prerequisite: Post-master's status or enrolled in master's program at CSS. Pre or Co-requisite: N6627.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6635 - Pharmacology: Older Adults

Application of theory and research related to advanced gerontological pharmacotherapeutics. Includes pharmacologic and non pharmacologic interventions in the management of acute, chronic physical and mental health disorders for the older adult. Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics in relation to the physiological changes in the older adult are stressed. Assessment, decision-making processes and client education for appropriate drug use are addressed. Web-based course on campus seminars. Prerequisite: Post-master's status or enrolled in master's program at CSS. Pre or Co-requisite: NSG 6605, NSG 8200, NSG 8675, N6633, N6677 or equivalent

Expand and Collapse NSG 6681 - Primary Health Care Mgt I

Knowledge and skills necessary for prevention and management of common acute and chronic illnesses in infants, children and adolescents. Aspects of assessment, diagnosis, management and evaluation derived from pathophysiologic, psychosocial, spiritual and developmental data bases are addressed. This course must be taken the semester immediately following NSG 6629, or requires faculty approval. Web-based course, on campus seminars. Prerequisites: NSG 6605, 6627, 6629, 6677, 8200, 8675, BIO 5777; 145 clinical hours.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6683 - Primary Health Care Mgt II

Knowledge and skills necessary for prevention and management of acute and chronic illnesses in adults and older adults. Underlying pathophysiologic and psychosocial bases for occurrence and detection are addressed with emphasis on management of common acute and chronic illnesses. It is required that NSG 6627 be taken within one year of this course, otherwise remedial work will be required Web-based course on campus seminars. 180 clinical hours. Prerequisite: NSG 6605, 6610, 6627, 6677, 6681 (FNPs only), 8200, 8675, BIO 5777.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6685 - Prenatal Health Care

Introduction to the role of a family nurse practitioner in the promotion of healthy pregnancy and lactation, and the management of frequently encountered problems in a pregnant or lactating woman. Web-based course on campus seminars. 30 clinical hours. Co-requisite: NSG 6683.

Expand and Collapse NSG 6687 - Nurse Practitioner Preceptrshp

Intensive clinical experience with a focus on prevention, health promotion, client education and illness management of individuals and families. Web-based course on campus seminars. 200 clinical hours. Prerequisite: NSG 6683, 6681, and 6685 (FNP).