| Course # |
Title |
Credits |
Prerequisites |
| HCS504 |
Introduction to Graduate Study in Health Sciences/Nursing
|
1 |
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Course Description
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.
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| NUR402 |
Theoretical Foundations of Professional Nursing
|
3 |
HCS504,
COM525
|
Course Description
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.
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| NUR429 |
Issues and Strategies in Nursing Research Utilization
|
3 |
HCS504,
COM525
|
Course Description
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.
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| NUR464 |
Concepts of Family Nursing Theory
|
3 |
HCS504,
COM525
|
Course Description
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.
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| NUR513 |
Theoretical Foundations of Practice
|
3 |
HCS504,
NUR402,
NUR429,
NUR464,
COM525
|
Course Description
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.
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| NUR518 |
Analysis of Research Reports
|
3 |
HCS504,
COM525
|
Course Description
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.
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| NUR531 |
Influencing the Future of Nursing and Health Care
|
3 |
HCS504,
COM525
|
Course Description
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.
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| HCS587 |
Creating Change within Organizations
|
3 |
HCS504,
COM525
|
Course Description
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.
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| NUR544 |
Population-focused Health Care
|
3 |
HCS504,
COM525
|
Course Description
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.
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| HSN544 |
Design and Process of Curriculum Development
|
3 |
|
Course Description
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.
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| NUR590A |
Nursing Practicum
|
1 |
HCS504,
HCS571,
HCS587,
HSN544,
NUR513,
NUR531,
COM525
|
Course Description
This capstone course is designed to provide students with opportunities to integrate and apply previously learned knowledge and skills in a 60-hour practicum. Students develop specific learning objectives that are approved by faculty. Objectives are achieved as a result of working with a nurse mentor and various experts during the practicum.
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| HCS571 |
Financial Resource Management
|
3 |
HCS504,
COM525
|
Course Description
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.
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| NUR587 |
Leadership and Management in Nursing and Health Care
|
3 |
HCS504,
COM525
|
Course Description
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.
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| NUR542 |
Dynamics of Family Systems
|
2 |
HCS504
|
Course Description
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.
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| NUR598 |
Nursing Utilization Project
|
3 |
HCS504,
NUR518
|
Course Description
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.
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| NUR590B |
Nursing Practicum
|
2 |
NUR590A
|
Course Description
This capstone course is designed to provide students with opportunities to integrate and apply previously learned knowledge and skills in a 60-hour practicum. Students develop specific learning objectives that are approved by faculty. Objectives are achieved as a result of working with a nurse mentor and various experts during the practicum.
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| HSN548 |
Role of the Health Care/Nursing Educator
|
3 |
|
Course Description
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.
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| HSN540 |
Teaching and Learning Strategies
|
3 |
|
Course Description
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.
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| HSN552 |
Assessment and Evaluation of Learning
|
3 |
|
Course Description
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.
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