Nursing & Health Care Courses
Nursing & Health Care Courses Course Groups
Health Care Education
Graduate Courses
Course ID |
Course Title |
|---|---|
| HSN540 |
Teaching and Learning Strategies
This course will focus on the concepts of learning, cognitive, and psychomotor learning, and the principles of adult learning. Selection and development of teaching strategies that enhance and facilitate learning will be explored. Credits: 3 |
| HSN544 |
Design and Process of Curriculum Development
Development of curriculum for programs in higher education settings are examined. This course focuses on curriculum planning and design, as well as development of individual courses and their relationship to program mission, objectives, and outcomes. Credits: 3 |
| HSN548 |
Role of the Health Care/Nursing Educator
Responsibilities of faculty within various higher education settings are explored. Trends and issues that impact the educator role within changing health care and educational environments are discussed. Topics such as technological, legal, ethical, and professional dynamics are included. Credits: 3 |
| HSN552 |
Assessment and Evaluation of Learning
Methods of assessing learning in higher education are analyzed and applied in different learning situations. Processes and problems related to course learning assessments as well as evaluating programmatic outcomes are examined. Designing measures to evaluate learner and curricular outcomes are addressed. Credits: 3 |
Health Care Services
Undergraduate Courses
Course ID |
Course Title |
|---|---|
| HCS230 |
Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology
This course introduces the foundations of basic anatomy and physiology to the student. Terminology, structure, and function of body systems are stressed. This course covers the major systems of the body, including the cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, endocrine, nervous, muscular and skeletal systems. Students begin to develop critical thinking skills by understanding the interdependence of the body systems and functions. Credits: 3 |
| HCS255 |
Environmental Microbiology
This course explores the basic principles of microbiology. Case scenarios and classroom discussions will allow the student to apply the framework and concepts of microbiology within the work place. Credits: 3 |
| HCS301 |
Undergraduate Nursing Studies
The course is designed to aid adult learners in acquiring or improving critical thinking, teamwork, research, and communication skills, which are necessary at the University of Phoenix. Students will develop strategies for achieving educational goals that will help them be successful in the undergraduate program as well as in their professional development. Students will also be introduced to the University library and the Center for Writing Excellence and learn how to access those resources successfully. Credits: 2 |
| HCS310 |
Health Care Delivery in the U.S.
This course provides a broad overview of the various functions of the United States health care system. The historical evolution of health care is examined. The student is introduced to the various forms of provider models and service delivery systems found in private and public health sectors, including ambulatory care, acute, mental, and long-term care. The financing aspects of health care and their influence on health care delivery and quality are outlined. Credits: 3 |
| HCS320 |
Health Care Communication Strategies
This course offers students the foundational knowledge and skills to communicate effectively in a variety of health care workplace settings. Students will review basic medical terminology, discuss the influences of gender and culture, examine channels of communication including the development of interpersonal and technology related communication, and the impact of consumer and interdisciplinary communication. Credits: 3 |
| HCS330 |
Concepts of Health and Disease
This course introduces students to the basic principles of illness and disease as well as the impact of disease trends on the delivery of services. The clinical manifestations of disease is commonly seen in the healthcare environment will be reviewed. The impact of health promotion and wellness program persepctives will be presented. Credits: 3 |
| HCS350 |
Health Care Communication
This course will focus on professional communication related to the role of the registered nurse. This course is designed to explore the knowledge and skills required to communicate therapeutically with clients and communicate effectively with other professionals of a health care team. The art of delegation will be examined. Credits: 3 |
| HCS405 |
Health Care Financial Accounting
This course provides an understanding of the general principles of accounting applied in the health care environment. It includes an overview of sources of revenue for various health care entities. The fundamentals of financial planning, cost concepts, capital budgeting and management analysis are applied in the health care environment. Issues surrounding the development and management of budgets are also examined. Credits: 3 |
| HCS413 |
Health Care Management Strategies
The course explores fundamental concepts of management theory as applied to healthcare. Students will examine the organizational structure of the health care delivery system and administrative processes such as planning, problem solving, decision making, and quality productivity improvement. Emphasis will also be placed on the major issues and problem areas confronting health service administrators. Credits: 3 |
| HCS427 |
Human Resources: Principles and Practices in Health Care
This course examines the complexities and multiple issues involved in Human Resources management in health care organizations. Students will examine the strategic role of human resource management in response to changes in the health care industry. In addition, issues such as recruitment, retention, performance management, organizational development, and employee relations are examined. Federal, state, and professional regulatory requirements specific to health care are emphasized. Credits: 3 |
| HCS430 |
Legal Issues in Health Care: Regulation and Compliance
This course covers the broad range of topics affected by health law and regulation ranging from patient rights to corporate responsibilities. Public and private health care regulatory agencies are examined as well as their impact on the operation of healthcare as a business. Legal issues ranging from professional malpractice to corporate wrongdoing are also discussed. Credits: 3 |
| HCS433 |
Dimensions of Health and the Older Adult
This course examines the basic principles and concepts of the aging process; including the physical, social, emotional, and mental components of health. Benefits of health promotion and preventive action for the aging are also explored. Credits: 3 |
| HCS435 |
Ethics: Health Care and Social Responsibility
This course identifies ethical issues in health care. It is designed to encourage students to clarify their personal ethic with regard to health care issues. The various responsibilities involving the management of populations whose ethics may be divergent are identified. Credits: 3 |
| HCS437 |
Long-Term Care Administration
This course examines the organization and management of long-term care and assisted living facilities. The impact of state and federal regulations are analyzed, as well as issues surrounding funding services are discussed. Students will examine the health services needed for current and future populations needing long-term care. Credits: 3 |
| HCS438 |
Statistical Applications
The emphasis in this statistical applications course is on thinking about research issues in a statistically sound and practical fashion. Students will learn to formulate and ask the right questions, how to collect data effectively, how to summarize and interpret information, and how to understand the limitations of statistical inferences. Credits: 3 |
| HCS440 |
Economics: The Financing of Health Care
This course provides an overview of the economics of health care. The various payers are examined, including private, state, and federal entities. Issues such as the cost effectiveness of prevention, the management of patients and their diseases, as well as the cost of treatment settings are discussed. Third party reimbursement from various sources, ranging from for-profit insurance carriers to charitable donations, are reviewed. The health care system's use of grant funding and research dollars is described. Credits: 3 |
| HCS443 | |
| HCS446 |
Facility Planning
This course will introduce students to the legal and regulatory challenges of facility planning and development. Students will analyze facility designs, discuss future health care consumer utilization trends, as well as examine the regulatory compliance requirements. Credits: 3 |
| HCS451 |
Health Care Quality Management and Outcomes Analysis
This course examines the relationships between health care quality and organizational performance management. The student is introduced to the rationale for performance management and the role of the governing body of the health care organization in ensuring compliance with the standards of regulatory and accreditation organizations. Methods for assuring quality in process and outcome management are described, as well as the significance and statistical application of measuring outcomes. Various health care customers are identified. Changing trends in the provision and reimbursement of health care services are reviewed. Credits: 3 |
| HCS455 |
Health Care Policy: The Past and the Future
This course will introduce the student to the intricate processes that public policymakers use to influence the health status of a society. The role of economic theory, interest groups, and the various levels of government involved in policymaking will be examined. A historic review of trends will be evaluated, and the challenges of future health care delivery will be examined. Credits: 3 |
| HCS457 |
Public and Community Health
This course provides health care students with an introduction to the development of the public health system and through the epidemiological model students will examine the impact of environmental factors on disease trends as well as communicable disease controls. Students will develop beginning skills in community assessment and health promotion strategies. The course also reflects the advances in population health in the community health field. This course represents the concept that many populations of concern in health programs are not solely defined by geographic location. Credits: 3 |
| HCS463 |
Application of Health Care Management Principles
Students in this course summarize their learning and formulate strategies to manage various challenges they will encounter in the healthcare environment. Analyses of case studies require application of the skills and tools acquired during the program, assisting students in bridging the gap from theory to practice. A comparative analysis of health care and general business enlarges the understanding of management in the specialized health care arena. Credits: 3 |
| HCS475 |
Leadership and Performance Development
This course provides students with an overview of leadership theories to assist in the development of effective leadership skills. Students will discuss workplace change and the leader’s role in the change process as well as examining and analyzing effective performance indicators for staff and organizational goals. Credits: 3 |
| HCS478 |
Health Law and Ethics
The legal and ethical aspects of the nurse’s role in the delivery and management of health care are examined in this course. This course will introduce ethical responsibilities and decision-making models related to various health care situations while exploring legal accountability to the individual, clinical, and health care providers. Credits: 3 |
| HCS482 |
Health Care Informatics
This course is designed to examine computer and electronic modalities that assist patient and client management. The automation of data management through information systems, expert systems, and telecommunications will be examined in the context of health care informatics. The use of technology to help make decisions and to improve the health status of the individual, family, and community will be emphasized. Credits: 3 |
| HCS483 |
Health Care Information Systems
The course provides an overview of the integration of technology in the health care setting. Students will examine the processes used in the selection, application and evaluation of computer software and hardware. Methods and processes to make informed business decisions related to the application and use of technology in health care will be discussed. Credits: 3 |
| HCS490 |
Health Care Consumer - Trends and Marketing
In this course students will have the opportunity to examine the traits, trends and needs of today's health care consumer. Students will examine current consumer information for readability, implications for the selection of products and services and differentiation of health care web sources. Credits: 3 |
Graduate Courses
Course ID |
Course Title |
|---|---|
| HCS504 |
Introduction to Graduate Study in Health Sciences/Nursing
This course provides new graduate students in the college with an introduction to strategies for success within the university's adult learning model. Topics include program standards and objectives, graduate-level oral and written communication, locating, evaluating, and citing scholarly resources, and purposes and use of portfolios. Credits: 1 |
| HCS514 |
Managing in Today's Health Care Organization
This course focuses on the adaptation of organizational management to evolving health systems. Students will examine organizational theory, organizational performance, structure, change management and human resource management. Students apply various organizational theories to contemporary issues. Credits: 3 |
| HCS521 |
Health Care Infrastructure
This course will be a discussion of the fundamentals of decision-making and legislative issues and their impact on health care systems in our society. Through the filter of politics, policy, regulatory environments and economics, students will critically analyze topics as applied to health-care providers and organizations. It will include an examination of the following current areas: 1) evolution to current delivery systems 2) economic theory, principles, and analytical tools 3) legislative and regulatory influences on the health care system 4) the policy process 5) shaping public policy in health care 6) alternative health care and changing social culture and 7) health care reform and future trends. Credits: 3 |
| HCS525 |
Leadership
This course examines organizational leadership in the context of the health care organization. Principles, theories and models of leadership are explored. Collaborative relationships, concepts of power and professional culture are explored. Students will articulate a personal vision of leadership and ways of providing direction within today’s complex health care system. Credits: 3 |
| HCS530 |
Health Care Organizations
This course is a comprehensive approach to health care organizations and systems that provide the student with an in-depth understanding of health organizations. Topics include the evolution of health care delivery organization during a time of financial and regulatory stress, the impact of the evolving consumer movement, and managing efficient and effective organizational structures. Credits: 3 |
| HCS532 |
Leadership and Organizational Management
This course focuses on the adaptation of organizational management and leadership to rapidly evolving health systems. Topics include organizational theory, organizational performance, structure, leadership theory, organizational and individual quality, and human resource management. Students apply various organizational and leadership theories to contemporary issues. Credits: 3 |
| HCS533 |
Health Information Systems
This course provides administrators and managers an overview of the information systems used in the health care industry. The effective use of data requires an understanding of how the data is captured as well as the HIPAA and security issues related to this confidential material. The course provides students with a general background to communicate more effectively with technical personnel and provide general management oversight of information systems within health care organizations. Credits: 3 |
| HCS535 |
Concepts of Population Health
This course addresses the epidemiological and sociological perspectives and techniques for analyzing the heath status of populations. Topics focus on disease trends, distribution and detriments of health and disease, models and concepts of health and wellness, and the development of a proactive response to community health issues. Credits: 3 |
| HCS539 |
Marketing for Health Care
This course examines marketing principles as they are applied within various health delivery systems. Special attention is focused on consumer behavior, market segmentation, environmental scanning, and identification of new market opportunities. The role of social marketing, data base research, and evaluation design and interpretation are addressed. Credits: 3 |
| HCS544 |
Current Issues in Health Law and Ethics
Students explore and analyze current ethical issues such a biomedical research, insurance statutes, and demand management. Students survey the extensive legal foundations of health care, and apply current case law to contemporary situations. Topics include legal aspects of legislation, patient rights, data security, professional liability, and labor relations. Credits: 3 |
| HCS545 |
Health Law and Ethics
Students explore and analyze current ethical issues such a biomedical research, insurance statutes, and demand management. Students survey the extensive legal foundations of health care, and apply current case law to contemporary situations. Topics include legal aspects of legislation, patient rights, data security, professional liability, and labor relations. Credits: 3 |
| HCS549 |
Evaluation Methodology
This course provides the student with the research methodology for health services research. Models of evaluation are examined and components such as stakeholder analysis, cost benefit effectiveness, decision-modeling, and statistical techniques are applied to decision making in health care organizations. Credits: 3 |
| HCS551 |
Biological and Psychological Aspects of Aging
This course examines the physical process of aging and the effects on physical and mental health. These topics are applied to disease prevention, health maintenance, and selected disorders that affect health and independent living. Public policy and program development issues will also be addressed to promote the health of the aging population. Credits: 3 |
| HCS552 |
Health Care Economics
This courses focuses on the application of macro and micro economic tools to the health care industry. Content includes demand management; concepts of efficiency, production and distribution of health care services; impact of regulation and reimbursement; and economic incentives in health care. Students apply principles to a variety of business models. Credits: 3 |
| HCS557 |
Social and Cultural Aspects of Aging
This course examines the social and cultural perspectives on aging. Public and personal aspects of aging will be addressed through historical, theoretical, cultural, and social venues. Topics will include work and retirement, social policy, older people as social and political forces, care needs, diversity, economics, social support, and disability. Credits: 3 |
| HCS565 |
Organization and Management of Aging Services
This course examines a variety of services currently available for aging adults and their families. Students will learn the basic principles for planning, organizing, implementing, and coordinating programs and services intended for maturing adults. Topics include community programs, policy, institutional services, religious-based and other nonprofit resources, contracted service providers, and residential facilities. Credits: 3 |
| HCS567 |
Entrepreneurship in Health Care
This course will set up the context of entrepreneurship and new business development; examine the characteristics of entrepreneurs, identifying and quantifying market opportunities in the health care market, as well conceptualizing the resources and capabilities needed. Topics include opportunity assessment, regulated industry implications and requirements, as well as the challenges of expansion within an existing enterprise. Credits: 3 |
| HCS571 |
Financial Resource Management
Processes of budget preparation, analysis, and monitoring are essential for analyzing the financial performance of an organization, service, or system. Concepts of financial accounting and reporting, as well as basic economic principles, are applied. Students use financial and economic concepts and principles to develop a business plan for a health care service or unit. Credits: 3 |
| HCS577 |
Financial Management in Health Care
This course presents the concepts of financial accounting important to the understanding of the financial environment of the health care industry. Students interpret financial statements, prepare analyses of financial data necessary to make decisions, describe the different third party payment methods, experiment with cost finding and price setting, and conduct break-even analyses. The course provides students with experience in capital and operating budgets, and financial forecasts. Credits: 3 |
| HCS578 |
Ethical, Legal and Regulatory Issues in Health Care
Ethical principles and decision-making models are used to address and understand complex health care issues. Legal concepts and regulatory agency and other public policies influence the direction and financing of health care. Credits: 3 |
| HCS582 |
Health Care Finance
This course presents the concepts of financial accounting important to the understanding of the financial environment of the health care industry. Students interpret financial statements, prepare analyses of financial data necessary to make decisions, describe the different third party payment methods, experiment with cost finding and price setting, and conduct break-even analyses. The course provides students with experience in capital and operating budgets, financial forecasts, and business plan preparation. Students will be expected to expand their utilization of spreadsheet applications. Credits: 3 |
| HCS586 |
Health Care Strategic Management
This is the capstone course for the graduate health care programs. The development and presentation of health care organization’s strategic plan will demonstrate mastery of the critical content as the principles relate to the health care industry. Special emphasis is placed upon consumer demand, market volatility, regulatory and fiscal constraints from the perspective of strategic management. The learner will demonstrate understanding of the critical importance of strategic management and planning within the dynamic, complex, and evolving nature of the health care industry. Credits: 3 |
| HCS587 |
Creating Change within Organizations
Diffusion of innovations models in health care systems use principles of planned change within a dynamic organizational environment. Communication skills, such as negotiation and conflict resolution, help leaders analyze and respond to health care needs while using resources efficiently. Credits: 3 |
| HCS588 |
Measuring Performance Standards
Quality improvement initiatives rely upon data from monitoring program implementation and evaluating program outcomes to determine achievement of program objectives. The processes of developing and revising monitoring and outcome measures are used to help determine progress toward meeting accreditation and regulatory standards. Credits: 3 |
Nursing
Undergraduate Courses
Course ID |
Course Title |
|---|---|
| NUR391 |
Introduction to Professional Nursing
This course focuses on the professional role and discipline of nursing. Students will examine the image of nursing and develop strategies for improvement. Standards of professional practice will be discussed in relation to the profession, role, and value behavior. Credits: 3 |
| NUR402 |
Theoretical Foundations of Professional Nursing
This course is designed to focus entering baccalaureate students on the behaviors, attitudes, and values necessary for theory-based professional nursing practice. Concept essential to professional nursing are presented within unifying framework of Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing. The action of nursing is operationalized within the roles of caregiver, teacher, and manager of care. An overview of classifications systems (Nursing Interventions Classifications and Nursing Outcomes Classifications) is introduced. The role of the nurse as a change agent in facilitating behavioral changes in individuals is reinforced. Credits: 3 |
| NUR403 |
Theories and Models of Nursing Practice
This course is designed to focus baccalaureate students on the behaviors, attitudes, and values necessary for theory-based professional nursing practice. Concepts of professional nursing are presented within the unifying framework of Jean Watson's Theory of Caring. Credits: 3 |
| NUR405 |
Healthy Communities: Theory and Practice
This course focuses on the professional role of nurses. Students will assess and strengthen their skills in writing, oral presentations, and group interactions. Change and communication strategies necessary for today's health care arena will be investigated. Credits: 4 |
| NUR408 |
Epidemiology: Global and Public Health
Epidemiology provides the basis for significant public and global health decisions. This course will explore key issues related to public and global health relevant to professional nursing practice. Through the use of epidemiology methods, students will track the natural history of a disease, identify its frequency, distribution, and cause. This course contains 50 hours of clinical experience. Credits: 4 |
| NUR420 |
Health Assessment
Provides refinement of physical assessment skills focusing on the assessment differences needed to recognize abnormal findings across the life span, especially with the geriatric population. Communication, health histories, and psychosocial impacts will also be explored in the development of holistic health assessment skills. Credits: 3 |
| NUR425 |
Health and Disease Management
This course focuses on pathophysiology, principles of motivation, learning theories, and their application to disease processes. A review of diseases from a systems approach will be stressed along with discussions regarding the impact of diversity, delivery of patient education, complementary/alternative therapies, and community resources. Credits: 3 |
| NUR427 |
Health and Chronic Disease Management
This course focuses on pathophysiology, principles of motivation, learning theories, and their application to disease processes. A review of diseases from a systems approach will be stressed along with discussions regarding the impact of diversity, delivery of patient education, complementary and alternative therapies, and community resources. Credits: 3 |
| NUR429 |
Issues and Strategies in Nursing Research Utilization
This course develops the basic skills of critically analyzing research findings. Research methods are introduced with emphasis placed upon analyzing key elements of research reports. Credits: 3 |
| NUR440 |
Health Assessment & Promotion of Vulnerable Population
This course is designed to assist professional nurses in developing interviewing skills, refinement of a health assessment, and preventative health interventions when working with diverse and vulnerable populations. The importance of therapeutic communication in performing a health assessment is emphasized. Credits: 3 |
| NUR443 |
Evidence-Based Nursing Research and Practice
This course will focus on current review of nursing research literature and research utilization through evidence-based practice. Three areas of research competencies will be examined which include interpreting and use of research in nursing practice, evaluation of research, and conducting research. Credits: 3 |
| NUR464 |
Concepts of Family Nursing Theory
This course provides the foundation for developing and utilizing theory-based practice for managing the continuum of care required for families. Based on Orem's Self-Care Model and the nursing process, the student develops the skills to provide family-centered, outcome-oriented nursing care across the life span. Students are assisted in the integration of the multicultural diversity of families into the nursing plan of care. Five workshops provide the framework for the development of the professional roles of caregiver, teacher, and manager of care in the nursing, client, and health care systems. Credits: 3 |
| NUR467 |
Clinical Integration: Nursing Management of Families
This course focuses on the utilization of theory-based practice to manage the continuum of care required by families. Based on Orem's Self-Care Model and the nursing process, the student will complete 45 hours of clinical application that provide the framework for development of the professional roles of caregiver, teacher, and manager of care in the health care, family, and nursing systems. Clinical application provides experiences across the life span. These experiences occur in a variety of settings and address the health care needs families. The clinical integration and application of theories and concepts introduced in the family theory course will be the focus of this course. Credits: 3 |
| NUR471 |
Dimensions of Community Nursing Practice
This course provides the foundation for developing and using theory-based practice in the health promotion of population aggregates and communities. Based on community and public health nursing standards and nursing conceptual frameworks, students learn skills to address populations at risk. Utilizing the epidemiological model, students identity levels of prevention and apply health promotion strategies to community health problems. Current social and economic issues are explored. Journaling and group activities facilitate the exploration of social responsibilities as a professional value. Five weeks provide the framework for the development of skills for community-focused practice. Credits: 3 |
| NUR473 |
Clinical Integration: Partnerships in Community Practice
This course focuses on the utilization of theory-based practice to promote the care of population aggregates and communities. Students complete 45 hours of practicum, which provides experiences with aggregates in a variety of settings in order to develop the professional roles of caregiver, teacher, and manager of care. Through the clinical practicum, the student develops beginning skills in community education, coalition building, community assessment, and the use of computerized databases. Violence as a health care problem and health care financing are examined as examples of current issues affecting communities. Social responsibility as a professional value is also covered. Clinical integration and application of theories introduced in the community course are the frameworks for this course. Credits: 3 |
| NUR478 |
Contemporary Issues and Health Policy
This course examines the interrelationships of legal decisions, health policy development, legislation, and regulation in the context of contemporary issues. Activities explore the impact of health policy changes on the individual nursing practice and the delivery of health care to consumers. Nursing ethics are explored in relation to health policy and decision making. Credits: 3 |
| NUR486 |
Nursing Leadership and Management in Health Care
This course uses leadership and management theory and application to develop skills for the understanding and implementation of change. Components of the course include leadership theory and models, change theory and models, project management and systems theory, financial management, organizational culture, and continuous process improvement. Credits: 3 |
Graduate Courses
Course ID |
Course Title |
|---|---|
| NUR513 |
Theoretical Foundations of Practice
This course focuses on the critical components of contemporary nursing knowledge, including concepts, statements, metaparadigms, philosophies, conceptual models, and theories. Students evaluate the variety of ways to organize nursing knowledge and explore the implications of their application. Through the clinical application of the course content, students examine the use of theory and nursing knowledge in professional environments. Credits: 3 |
| NUR518 |
Analysis of Research Reports
Evidence-based practice relies upon analyzing the scientific merit of nursing research reports and integrating the results from valid studies into care. Published reports using quantitative and qualitative methods are examined to determine the validity of study findings and their readiness for implementation into practice. Ethics in research is also considered. Credits: 3 |
| NUR531 |
Influencing the Future of Nursing and Health Care
The role of advanced practice nurses in today's health care environment provides numerous opportunities and responsibilities. Nursing's potential for improving the health of individuals, families, groups, and communities is examined. Strategies for involvement in shaping health care policy are developed. Credits: 3 |
| NUR542 |
Dynamics of Family Systems
Family systems theories and models are used to understand the impact of nuclear families on professional and personal relationships, as well as on society. These theories and models are used as well to develop strategies for promoting and monitoring the health of families. Credits: 2 |
| NUR544 |
Population-focused Health Care
Theories, principles, and strategies of population-based health care are used to design, implement, and evaluate services and plans of care to promote, maintain, and restore health in a defined population. Students focus on population aggregates in structured or unstructured settings across care environments. Strategies to evaluate health outcomes and costs of care are emphasized. Credits: 3 |
| NUR587 |
Leadership and Management in Nursing and Health Care
Ways of using leadership and management concepts, principles, theories, and models in advanced nursing practice and executive roles are explored. Skills that facilitate collaborative relationships and decisions consistent with stewardship of resources are examined. Students articulate a personal vision of leadership and ways of providing direction within today's complex health care system. Credits: 3 |
| NUR588 |
Developing and Evaluating Educational Programs
Identifying learning needs provides the foundation for designing health care education programs for individuals, families, groups, or communities. Students select and develop teaching strategies and explore ways of monitoring and evaluating teaching methods and learner outcomes. Roles of educators in organizations, communities, and higher education settings are examined. Credits: 3 |
| NUR598 |
Nursing Utilization Project
This is a graduate research course that focuses on utilization of a body of scientific knowledge in the work setting. Students develop a proposal to address a problem or concern in the work setting, describe an innovation, research support or its use, develop an implementation and an evaluation plan, and describe strategies for decision making for the success or failure of the innovation. Credits: 3 |
