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Examines community-based strategies and interprofessional collaboration to care for underserved populations in both urban and suburban communities. Emphasizes the application of knowledge when addressing core functions and essential services of public health, epidemiology, and economic concepts and models. Students engage in cultural and linguistic-appropriate health assessment, health promotion, and illness-prevention strategies in a variety of community settings.
Examines and evaluates types of community-based strategies used to serve underserved and vulnerable populations to ensure quality care for those living in both urban and suburban communities. Managing and Leading in Healthcare. Introduces various theoretical frameworks that support principles of leadership and management in nursing in all types of organizational settings.
Emphasizes developing, enhancing, and demonstrating leadership skills, competencies, and aptitudes. Exposes students to practical situations in the management of current and practical patient care in diverse healthcare settings. Integrates organizational structure; methods of nursing care delivery; comparison of management and nursing processes; decision making; change; communication skills; interprofessional collaboration; team building; ethical considerations; interpersonal skills of effective nursing leadership and management; and organizational issues related to the quality of client, family, and personal outcomes.
Introduces varied theoretical frameworks in all types of organizational settings that support principles of healthcare leadership and management within a nursing management context. Exposes students to practical situations in the management of healthcare in global settings.
Integrates organizational structure, healthcare delivery methods, comparison of management processes, decision making, change, interprofessional communication and collaboration, team building, ethical considerations, interpersonal skills of effective healthcare leadership and management, and organizational issues related to quality outcomes.
Innovations in Nursing Practice. Designed to hone students' professional development in preparation for a broader scope of nursing practice through formation of a greater understanding of the social and societal issues as impacted by cultural, political, and economic forces that affect and influence the delivery of nursing care. Locally and globally, the healthcare system is undergoing an evolution that demands a broadening of the scope of nursing practice and the preparation of registered nurses to meet the challenges of the future.
Greater emphasis is being placed on patient-centered care, interdisciplinary collaboration, and healthcare promotion across the life span in the midst of an ever-changing and complex healthcare system. Offers independent work under the direction of members of the department on a chosen topic. Course content depends on instructor.
Comprehensive Nursing Practicum. Prepares students to synthesize nursing knowledge, skills, and experience and facilitate their transition to professional nursing practice and case management of clients with health problems.
Assists students to demonstrate leadership and collaborative skills in working with other members of the health-care team through a weekly precepted relationship with a RN. Includes clinical learning experiences within hospital and community settings. Classwork includes a review of professional domains in all previous clinical courses in the nursing curriculum to prepare students for licensure. Offers students an opportunity to synthesize nursing knowledge, skills, and experience and facilitate their transition to professional nursing practice and case management of clients with health problems.
Designed to assist students to demonstrate leadership and collaborative skills in working with other members of the healthcare team through a weekly precepted relationship with an RN.
Nursing Skills Continuation. Advanced Perspectives in Wellness. Offers students an opportunity to explore wellness through both theoretical and experiential pathways. Introduces theories and models of holism, wellness, stress, health promotion, health belief, and change as operational frameworks by which the student has an opportunity to reflect upon personal history, health and risk-taking behaviors, and lifestyle choices that influence health and well-being.
Studies the art and science of self-care through both the emic and etic perspectives. Embodied learning methodologies inform course delivery.
Focuses on principles of pharmacology and the major drug classifications in relation to the treatment of health problems across the life span. Examines the effects of selected medications on pathophysiology and psychopathology. Healthcare System and Professional Role Development. Examines the healthcare system with special focus on social, political, economic, ethical, regulatory, research, and legal trends.
Students are expected to evaluate the interaction between healthcare system issues and advanced practice role dimensions. Statistics for Health Science. Focuses on applying formal reasoning to understand the underlying principles of statistics; how to select and conduct statistical tests; and how to interpret and use the results of data analysis in relation to research questions and research hypotheses.
Epidemiology and Population Health. Examines the theoretical basis for identification and analysis of the distribution and determinants of health problems at community, national, and international population levels. Considers health disparities that exist among specific populations and the role of government in setting policies for health promotion and disease prevention. Covers three topical areas: basic principles and population measures of epidemiology; epidemiologic study methods; and application of epidemiologic tools in interdisciplinary settings.
Complements planned topics with current examples of population health issues. The goal is to understand the principles and practice of monitoring population health.
Skills acquired assist advanced practice nurses, other clinicians, or administrators in critically evaluating new epidemiologic literature and in using the basic tools of epidemiology to assess population health and develop strategies for monitoring health improvement. Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice. Covers content that provides current understanding of major disease processes across the life span. Builds on the knowledge of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, and immunology.
Focuses on physiologic dysfunction; physiologic adaptation in maintaining the internal environment; and feedback mechanisms at the cellular, organ, and systems level. Seeks to provide students with a way of thinking about disease for each body system. Provides a comprehensive study of underlying concepts common to major pathophysiologic processes of the body, including specific diseases affecting the cardiovascular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, hematological, immunological, nervous, pulmonary, and renal systems.
Introduction to Research Methods and Application for Healthcare. Introduces students to the different types of research methodologies used by healthcare disciplines. Emphasizes designing research studies and application of research findings to practice within the student's particular discipline.
Topics include foundations of research, ethical conduct of research, research methodologies, concepts of measurement, qualitative and quantitative research design, and the analysis and dissemination of research findings.
Discusses the importance of research to both healthcare practitioners and consumers with an emphasis on patient-centered outcomes. Allows student to develop an individualized plan to attain specific knowledge and skills related to professional goals. May consist of library study and reading, individual instruction, research, practicum, or other appropriate activity as approved by instructor and academic adviser.
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