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NURS 810 - Families in Health and Illness
Credits:
3.00
Seminar focusing on the family environment as a context for
the experience of health and illness. Current middle-range
theories and research from nursing and other disciplines
analyzed for their application to family health. Public
policy initiatives related to family health will be
explored.
NURS 894 - Special Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Formal course given on selected topics or special interest
subjects. Several topics may be taught in one year or
semester. Prereq: permission. May be repeated.
NURS 898 - Master's Research Project
Credits:
3.00
Opportunity to develop, implement, and evaluate a project
relevant to the practice setting. Prereq: permission. IA
(continuous grading). Credit/Fail.
NURS 899 - Master's Thesis
Credits:
1.00 to 6.00
Prereq: permission. Credit/Fail.
NURS 900 - The Discipline of Nursing
Credits:
3.00
Nursing as a discipline with a focus on paradigms for
nursing science, patterns of knowing, concept analysis, and
nursing theory. Emphasis on concepts fundamental to nursing
practice, including advocacy, caring, power, and
collaboration; analysis of nursing theories in relation to
practice and research. Prereq: permission.
NURS 901 - Nursing and Change in Health Services
Credits:
3.00
Emphasizes identification of emerging issues that have an
impact on the health care system and determination of
nursing in providing leadership to address these issues.
Students analyze problems and process solutions from a
nursing perspective with reasoned approach to their
resolution. Prereq: permission.
NURS 905 - Research in Nursing
Credits:
3.00
Provides overview of current state-of-the-art research in
nursing. Emphasis on critique of research findings and
application of research to clinical practice. Prepares
student to work collaboratively with expert researchers in
either academic or clinical settings. Discusses types of
research designs and qualitative and quantitative methods.
Critique process focuses on individual components of
research study, including the theory, purpose, sample, data
collection procedures, and analysis. Includes ethical issues
of scientific fraud and misconduct and issues of human
subjects. Prereq: permission.
NURS 907 - Pharmacology
Credits:
3.00
Principles of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics
relevant to primary care practice. Focuses on major classes
of drugs with an emphasis on knowledge necessary for
prescriptive authority. Prereq: permission.
NURS 908 - Clinical Application of Human Physiology
Credits:
3.00
Examines human physiologic function and interaction of
selected body systems in maintaining health. Clinical
correlation strategies used to examine implications of
recent advances in selected areas of human physiology to
better understand the human body and its functioning in
health and illness. Stresses application of course materials
to advanced nursing practice in a variety of settings.
Prereq: permission.
NURS 909 - Health and Illness Appraisal
Credits:
3.00
Advanced health assessment including communication
strategies, functional health pattern assessment, advanced
physical assessment, screening diagnostic tests,
developmental evaluation, and clinical decision making. Lab
and clinical component. Pre- or Coreq: NURS 900; 905; 907;
908. Special fee.
NURS 920 - Administrative Theories in Nursing
Credits:
3.00
Application of administative theories and organizational
behavior concepts to the practice of nursing administration
in current and emerging health care settings. Examines
organizational structure, motivation, leadership/management,
decision making, creativity, and change. Prereq: permission.
NURS 921 - Administrative Context for Quality Nursing Care Delivery
Credits:
3.00
Identification of strategies to create an organizational
context to enhance effective and efficient quality nursing
practice in a variety of health care settings. Intra- and
interdepartmental effectiveness, care delivery models,
governance models, patient/client focused redesign,
operations improvement programs, and human resource
management are studied within an open systems focus. Prereq:
permission.
NURS 922 - Resource and Financial Management in Nursing
Credits:
3.00
Strategies for the effective use of human and financial
resources in health care systems. Explores budget
development and control, business plan development,
skill mix, costing of nursing services, computer uses,
classification of systems and acuity determination of
staffing/skill mix, and marketing of nursing service
strategies in relation to fiscal responsibilities of the
nurse and administrator. Prereq: HMP 810.
NURS 929 - Practicum and Seminar in Nursing Administration
Credits:
6.00
Individualized practicum experience arranged to assist
student in applying theoretical knowledge in the practice
setting and to achieve personal goals related to development
as a nurse administrator. Seminar topics selected to reflect
issues arising from practicum experiences but will include
ethical administrative considerations and nursing
administration in future health care delivery systems.
Prereq: permission. Special fee.
NURS 935 - Primary Care of the Adult
Credits:
3.00
Lecture/discussion course covering the primary care
management of healthy adults through the lifespan with a
focus on health maintenance and disease prevention. Focuses
on evaluation and management of common acute and chronic
adult health care problems. Major causes of adult morbidity
are covered. Prereq: NURS 909. Special fee.
NURS 936 - Practicum in the Primary Care of Adults
Credits:
3.00
Supervised clinical experience in the primary care
management of adults through the lifespan, including
assessment and management of common acute and chronic
clinical problems. Focuses on the clinical application of
knowledge of health maintenance, disease prevention,
and the evaluation and management of major causes of adult
morbidity and mortality. Prereq: NURS 908; 909. Pre- or
Coreq: NURS 907; 935. Special fee.
NURS 937 - Primary Care of Children
Credits:
3.00
Lecture/discussion course covering the primary care
management of children across the health-illness continuum,
including assessment and management of common acute and
chronic clinical problems. A developmental perspective is
taken to examine child-health evaluation and maintenance
from infancy through adolescence. Prereq: NURS 909. Special
fee.
NURS 938 - Practicum in the Primary Care of Children
Credits:
3.00
Supervised clinical experience in the primary care
management of the child and adolescent, including
assessment and management of common acute and chronic
clinical problems. A family-centered developmental
perspective is taken to provide child-health services from
infancy through adolescence. Nursing care, family, and
rehabilitation issues related to various health problems are
investigated in practice. Prereq: NURS 908; 909. Pre- or
Coreq: NURS 907; 937. Special fee.
NURS 939 - Seminar and Practicum in the Primary Care of Families
Credits:
6.00
Final integrative clinical course that allows for intensive
application of primary care knowledge and skills in
practice. Seminar allows for in-depth analysis of various
clinical problems and role issues. Students are actively
involved in a primary care setting appropriate to their area
of study. Extensive clinical experience under the guidance
of a preceptor. Prereq: NURS 935; 936; 937; 938. Special
fee.
NURS 941 - Population-Focused Practicum
Credits:
3.00
In this practicum students acquire the specialty knowledge
and skills that are required in the care of a particular
population. Students propose clinical performance
competencies, learning activities, settings, and resource
persons for the supervised practicum and complete a minimum
of 112 percepted clinical hours. May be repeated to a
maximum of 6 credits. Prereq: NURS 935; 936. Coreq:
NURS 945. Special fee.
Co-requisites:
NURS 945
NURS 945 - Clinical Decision Making in Health Care
Credits:
3.00
Clinical decision making is analyzed and applied with a
focus on intergrating the humanistic, functional and medical
frameworks of health care. An approach to identifying and
analyzing ethical conflicts is developed, and
culture-appropriate care is examined. Students consider the
range management modalities that might benefit their
populations of interest, and are assisted in expanding their
repertoire of interventions. Pre- or Coreq: NURS 935; 936.
NURS 946 - Practicum in Adult Health Care
Credits:
6.00
Seven seminars and 336 hours of precepted clinical
experience. Student design the precepted clinical experience
to refine, expand, and/or re-focus existing clinical
competencies with the objective of developing the ability to
assess and manage complex client cases, and/or manage cases
across clinical settings. Seminars involve
presentation-discussions of case management situations, and
discussion of role issues relevant to advanced practice
roles. Pre- or Coreq: NURS 945. Special fee.
NURS 950 - Reading and Research in Advanced Nursing
Credits:
2.00 to 8.00
Through a process of selective review and critical
evaluation, students examine the current literature and
explore the issues and trends in their topic area. Students
prepared by education and experience to do independent work
under the guidance of a professor may register for one or
more of these sections. Topics include: oncology, women's
health, community nursing, case management, geriatric
nursing, nursing care of children and families, nursing
those with disabilities, quality improvement, special
topics. Hours and credits to be arranged. Pre- or Coreq:
NURS 900, 901, 905.
NURS 955 - Practicum in Advanced Nursing Practice
Credits:
3.00 to 6.00
Students acquire the specialty knowledge and skills required
in the area of their master's study. Students work with
their faculty mentor to propose performance competencies,
learning activities, settings, and resource persons for this
supervised practicum. Practicum must include a minimum of
112 hours of supervised practice. May be repeated. Pre- or
Coreq: NURS 950. Special fee.
NURS 994 - Special Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Formal course given on selected topics or special interest
subjects. Several topics may be taught in one year or
semester. Prereq: permission. May be repeated.
NURS 996 - Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Opportunity for study and/or practice in an area of choice.
Objectives are developed by students and must be approved by
faculty. May be repeated. Prereq: permission.