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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.
- Areas of Interest:
- Health Science
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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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- Health Science
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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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- Health Science
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This course focuses on advanced evidence-based practice. 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.
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- Health Science
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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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- Health Science
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This course examines the organizational and systems structure, navigation, policy, decision-making, evidence-based practice, and leadership roles will be analyzed. The concepts of resilience, service, power and influence, conflict resolution, negotiation, advanced communication, and collaboration strategies will be appraised. 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.
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- Health Science
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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.
- Areas of Interest:
- Health Science
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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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- Health Science
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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.
- Areas of Interest:
- Health Science
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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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- Health Science
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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.
- Areas of Interest:
- Health Science
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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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- Health Science
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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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- Health Science
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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.
- Areas of Interest:
- Health Science
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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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- Health Science
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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.
- Prerequisites:
- NURS 552, NURS 553, NURS 554
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- Health Science
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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 translate professional nursing standards and values through leadership theories and styles, innovations, and interprofessional collaboration. The advanced professional nurse leader will apply a holistic approach to implement leadership theories and styles, change strategies, and effective interprofessional collaboration within healthcare organizations to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes, focusing on improving healthcare disparities.
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- Health Science
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Learners will develop leadership skills with a focus on healthcare policy, economic theory, and finance in healthcare systems. Emphasizes strategies for creating and maintaining a culturally sensible environment while measuring outcomes, influencing decision-making, and navigating business realities in organizations. Incorporates financial, legal, and ethical concepts. Requires entry into the program.
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- Health Science
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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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- Health Science
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The Nursing Leadership Capstone offers the learners a practical opportunity to apply the previous coursework and knowledge obtained during the program and demonstrate their ability to work and think as an advanced professional nurse leader. This course includes experiential learning hours focused on a final project reviewed and approved by the course faculty and organizational mentor(s). The learners will develop a change project proposal utilizing a plan of action with concepts from the program coursework.
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- Health Science
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