All previous level nursing courses must be successfully satisfied prior to progressing to the next level nursing courses.
100 Introduction to the Nursing Discipline (3)
This course introduces the historical and theoretical development of nursing as a discipline. Nursing is examined as an emerging practice profession. Variables that influence nursing and health care are discussed. Concepts and skills introduced in this course guide the student's educational experience within the nursing major.
101 Nursing and Health (6)
Prerequisites: Admission to accelerated track. An introduction to the discipline of nursing, the historical and theoretical development of nursing is explored with an emphasis on critical thinking, the teaching/learning process, and foundational practice concepts. Through modular laboratory experiences, the student acquires psychomotor skills to provide safe and effective nursing care to clients promoting health and wellness. Includes classroom, laboratory and clinical experiences.
103 Nutrition and Health (3)
This course examines the nutritional needs throughout the life span with emphasis on nutritional principles related to health promotion and protection. Content includes assimilation, digestion and absorption of nutrients and cultural and economic influences on dietary practices.
104 Foundations in Nursing and Health (5)
Prerequisite: Biology 113, 114 and 116; Chemistry for Health Professions (or equivalent), Nursing 100, 106 may be taken concurrently. This course emphasizes critical thinking, the teaching-learning process, and foundational practice concepts. Through modular laboratory opportunities, the student acquires the basic psychomotor skills necessary to provide safe and effective nursing care to clients experiencing common physiological alterations in health. This course includes classroom, laboratory and clinical experiences.
105 Communication in the Nursing Profession (2)
Prerequisite: Nursing 100. This course focuses on the development of communication abilities utilized in professional nursing. The individual's relationship with self, others and groups is discussed. Students learn verbal and non-verbal communication skills, self-awareness, and sensitivity to others. Interpersonal skills are introduced to enable the student to develop effective human caring relationships with a diverse population of clients and colleagues.
106 Assessment of Clients in Health and Illness (3)
Prerequisite: Biology 113 and 114; Nursing 104, 105, and 110 may be taken concurrently. This course integrates theoretical knowledge and interpersonal skills in the assessment of clients, focusing on differentiating normal from abnormal findings. It emphasizes the use of problem solving, critical thinking and cultural competency in identifying multidimensional health variations across the life span. The course includes classroom and laboratory experiences.
110 Pathophysiological Bases of Nursing Practice (3)
Prerequisite: Biology 113, 114, 116 and Chemistry for Health Professionals or equivalent. This course focuses on the nature of disease, its causes and the bodily changes that accompany it. The course includes a study of general principles of disease, specific diseases of individual organs and systems and the clinical implications.
111 Pharmacotherapeutics in Nursing Practice (3)
Prerequisite: Biology 113, 114, 116 and Chemistry for Health Professionals (or equivalent); Nursing 110 [may be taken concurrently]. This course introduces key terminology, legal foundations, general principles and clinical applications of pharmacology.
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200 Dimensions of Professional Nursing Practice (3)
Prerequisites: Admission to the College of Nursing as RN. Investigates the roles and responsibilities of the professional nurse within a rapidly changing health care delivery system. Key issues are explored with emphasis on health promotion and health. Graduates of diploma nursing programs will be awarded college credit for successful validation of basic nursing knowledge as part of this course.
205 Adult Health Nursing I (5)
Prerequisite: All 100 level nursing courses, Psych 268. This course focuses on the nursing care of the adult experiencing selected pathophysiological processes affecting body regulatory mechanisms. These mechanisms are related to immune responses, problems of oxygenation, ventilation, transport and perfusion; kidney function; regulatory mechanisms and digestion, absorption and elimination. Emphasis is placed on health restoration, maintenance and support as well as the continued development of the nurse-client relationship, critical thinking processes, and research-based nursing practice. This course includes classroom and clinical activities in a variety of settings.
206 Adult Health Nursing II (5)
Prerequisite: All 100 level nursing courses, Psych 268. This course focuses on the nursing care of the adult experiencing selected pathophysiological processes affecting body regulatory mechanisms. These mechanisms are related to endocrine, sensory-perceptual, gynecological, and genitourinary functions. Emphasis is placed on health restoration, maintenance and support as well as the continued development of the nurse-client relationship, critical thinking processes, and research-based nursing practice. This course includes classroom and clinical activities in a variety of settings.
207 Information Management in Nursing (2)
Prerequisite: All 100 level nursing courses. This course provides an overview of applications of computers in nursing and health care. The course introduces historical, social, legal, ethical, and organizational issues and problems involved in computerized health care environments. The use of computers to organize, access, retrieve and manipulate data, generate reports and communicate electronically is emphasized.
214 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (4)
Prerequisite: All 100 level nursing courses; Nursing 205, 206 [may be taken concurrently]. This course focuses on health and illness across the lifespan of clients who have acute and chronic emotional and psychosocial difficulties and psychiatric illnesses The course emphasizes development of students' decisional capabilities, self-awareness and professional behaviors as they utilize theory and research from nursing, psychology and related disciplines for the provision of nursing care to individuals, families and groups. Clinical experiences in community and acute care settings are designed for students to engage in individual and group strategies that promote and maintain mental health. Course includes classroom and clinical activities in a variety of settings.
215 Nursing of Women and Childbearing Families (4)
Prerequisite: All 100 level nursing courses. This course focuses on the childbearing family and women's reproductive health, including family dynamics and growth and development. Health promotion, protection, maintenance and restoration are covered in experiences that include hospital and community settings. Health care policy and systems as relevant to these populations are included. Course includes classroom and clinical activities in a variety of settings.
216 Child and Family Health Nursing (4)
Prerequisite: all 100 level nursing courses; nursing 205 or 206 [may be taken concurrently]. This course focuses on pediatric health and illness with emphasis on family dynamics, growth and development and communication with children and their families. Health promotion, protection, restoration, maintenance and support concepts are covered in experiences that include hospital and community settings. Health care policy and systems are studied as relevant to this population. Course includes classroom and clinical activities in a variety of settings.
217 Information Systems Utilized in Health Care (3)
Prerequisite: Admission to College of Nursing or consent of instructor. This laboratory course establishes competency in health information systems. The course incorporates the impact of information systems on health care delivery.
220 Health Assessment (3)
Prerequisites: Nursing 200 and Nursing 217 (may be taken concurrently) or consent of instructor. This laboratory course focuses on the knowledge, communication abilities, and technical skills necessary for comprehensive assessment of individuals of all ages.
224 Marriage and the Family (3)
(Same as Sociology 224.) Prerequisite: Sociology 10 or consent of instructor. The study of patterns of close relationships, and how these relationships are influenced by larger social forces. Topics include: love, dating, mate selection, cohabitation, alternative lifestyles, working families, parenting, single mothers, families in crisis, domestic violence, and divorce. Universal and variable aspects of family organization, family role systems, and changes in family social structure.
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300 Community Health Nursing (4)
Prerequisite: Nursing 205, 206; Nursing 214, 215, and 215 [may be taken concurrently]. This course provides a conceptual foundation for nursing that recognizes the community as client in society. The course examines socioeconomic, environmental, epidemiological, and legislative influences, ethical/legal issues, and the impact of health beliefs and practices on health promotion and protection in communities and society. The student applies various theories and concepts when encountering families, groups and communities with diverse value systems and cultural backgrounds. Course includes classroom and clinical activities in a variety of settings.
301 Family and Community Nursing (5)
Prerequisites: Nursing 200, 217 and 220. This practicum course introduces the concepts, principles, skills, and professional nursing roles essential to practice communitybased professional nursing with families and groups.
304 Ethical and Legal Dimensions of Nursing Practice (3)
Prerequisites: Philosophy 156 (or equivalent). This course explores the ethical and legal dimensions of nursing practice. The relationship between ethical and legal issues is examined within nursing situations. The student participates in dialogue addressing ethical-legal issues in professional nursing practice to explore personal value, increase sensitivity to others and to develop ethical reasoning abilities.
306 Nursing Research (3)
Prerequisite: Nursing 373, 205, 206. This course introduces the values and characteristics of quantitative and qualitative research within an ethical perspective. Students examine the research process through analysis and critique of nursing research.
308 Management and Leadership in Nursing (3)
Prerequisite: Nursing 300 or 301; Economics elective. This course prepares the nurse to coordinate and manage client care in diverse health care settings. Emphasis is placed on leadership and management theory and related skills, collaboration, delegation, coordination, and evaluation of multi-disciplinary work and the application of outcome-based nursing practice.
310 Senior Synthesis (5)
Prerequisite: all required 200 level nursing courses, Nursing 300, 304, and 306; Nursing 308 (may be taken concurrently). This course integrates theory and practice from previous nursing and general education courses with the goal of preparing the student for entry into professional nursing practice. Within a seminar context, students explore a variety of clinical and professional nursing topics. The course includes research-based strategies utilized for health promotion and protection, health restoration, maintenance and support. Areas of study are selected from across the lifespan, including diverse populations in a variety of health care systems. Course includes classroom and clinical experiences in a variety of settings. Not for graduate credit.
311 Synthesis in Nursing Practice (5)
Prerequisites: Nursing 306 or 411 or equivalent. This practicum course focuses on communitybased application and synthesis of professional nursing roles and responsibilities with selected populations determined to be at risk for a variety of health related problems. The course includes assessment of cognitive and affective growth achieve while in the BSN Completion Program
320 Perioperative Nursing (2)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Provides experiences in preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative settings. Includes a clinical component.
322 Transcultural Nursing (3)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Examines transcultural nursing concepts, theories and practices in relationship to human caring. Focuses on application and analysis of health care and scope of practice |within selected cultural contexts. Includes practicum experiences.
325 Education and the Psychology of Human Sexuality(3)
(Same as Ed Psy 325). The course is designed to provide educators and other human services personnel with knowledge and understanding of various personal and social dimensions of human sexuality.
338 Sociology of Health (3)
(Same as Sociology 338.) Prerequisites: Sociology 10 and junior standing. Exploration of social dimensions and issues related to health and illness such as access to the health care delivery system; factors influencing prevention, utilization, and compliance; changing relationships among health care providers and consumers; health care costs, trends, and crosscultural variations.
341 Advanced Nursing Assessment and Management of Clients with Cardiac Dysrhythmias (3)
Prerequisite: Senior status. Focuses on advanced nursing assessment and management of clients with cardiac rhythm problems and conduction disturbances. Includes a clinical component.
345 Management of Clients with Complex Needs (8)
Prerequisites: All junior level nursing courses. Synthesizes human caring and human science in developing megastrategies that address the complex needs of persons. Includes a clinical component.
352 Primary Care Nursing (3)
Prerequisites: Completion of all junior level courses; Corequisite: Nursing 340. This course introduces the role of the advanced practice nurse as a principal provider of primary health care to families across the life span. Major issues relate to health care provided in a variety of community settings are addressed.
355 Leadership in Health Care Delivery Systems (8)
Prerequisites: All junior level nursing courses. Explores a conceptual foundation for community health nursing that recognizes community as client. Studies human caring related to leadership and management roles of the nurse in health care institutions and the community. Includes a clinical component.
360 Nursing Seminar (3)
Prerequisite: All required Junior level Nursing courses and Senior status. Explores current issues related to health care delivery and nursing practice through review of professional literature, group presentations, and discussions.
365 Women's Issues in Health Care (3)
This course is open to nursing majors and other persons interested in women's issues in health care. This seminar offers students the opportunity to explore women's issues in health care from the perspectives of both providers of health care and consumers of health care. Wellness, rather than pathology, is the emphasis of discussion of specific health care issues related to women. Student interest will determine specific issues to be examined.
370 Topics in Nursing (13)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Explores special topics in the areas of clinical practice, nursing education, nursing administration, and professional development. No more than six hours may be taken under this option.
373 Quantitative Analysis in the Health Sciences (3)
Prerequisite: Math 30 or equivalent. This course focuses on concepts and applications of statistics in the health sciences. Topics include descriptive and inferential statistics, probability distributions of random variables, sampling and estimation. The course uses examples and content from health sciences to provide the basic concept structure for quantitative analysis.
399 Guided Study in Nursing (1-3)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. This course is an in-depth independent study of selected topics in nursing under the guidance of a specific instructor. No more than six hours may be taken under this option.
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401 Health and Wellness in the Elderly (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor. (Same as Gerontology 401) Factors contributing to longevity and health in old age, including genetic predisposition, lifestyle, culture, and environment are related to aspects of maintaining health and promoting wellness. Through a holistic approach, explores aspects of nutrition, exercise and activity, prevention of hazards to health, maintaining self-responsibility, managing stress, and meeting continued developmental, emotional and spiritual needs. Considers cross-disciplinary interventions to promote health and wellness in the elderly. Introduces the "Putting Prevention into Practice" model adapted to health promotion in the elderly.
404 Health Assessment for Advanced Nursing Practice (3)
Prerequisite: Undergraduate Health Assessment and successful validation of basic assessment skills. This course is designed to provide a systematic approach to the advanced assessment of physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental and spiritual assessment of individuals across the lifespan. This course builds on basic health assessment knowledge and skills, emphasizing advanced assessment skills, laboratory work interpretation, validation, documentation and analysis of assessment findings.
404N Advanced Health Assessment of the Neonate (3)
Prerequisites: Admission to the MSN Neonatal subspecialty track or consent of instructor. Corequisite: 448N or consent of instructor. A developmental and systematic approach to the advanced assessment of physiological, psychological, sociocultural and developmental aspects of the fetus, mother in the prenatal period, and the neonate is discussed. This approach builds on basic assessment skills and emphasizes perinatal, genetic, and embryologic factors impacting neonatal development. Ways to assess the pregnant woman for problems, the use of special diagnostic tests, and the assessment of the neonate also are explored. Forty hours of laboratory/clinical activities during the semester, which provide opportunities to implement various assessment and diagnostic procedures, complete appropriate health histories, perform complete physical examinations, and complete a perinatal history are required.
405 Values in Health Care Decision Making (2)
Prerequisite: Admission to MSN program. This course explores values and beliefs as they shape professional nursing practice and influence clinical decision making. The course includes analysis of health care systems and how the values underpinning these systems influence nursing interventions and nursing care delivery.
406 Policy, Organization and Financing in Health Care (2)
Prerequisite: Admission to MSN program or consent of instructor. This course presents an overview of health care policy, organization and financing and how they impact professional nursing practice. Attention is given to the relationship between current health care trends and improving nursing health care delivery and client care outcomes.
407 Pharmacology for Advanced Nursing Practice (3)
Prerequisite: Nursing 445 (may be taken concurrently) or consent of instructor. This course centers on clinical pharmacotherapeutics used for primary health care management. Emphasis is placed on the clinical use of drugs in the management of specific illnesses.
407N Pharmacology for the Neonate (3)
Prerequisites: 448N or consent of the instructor. Pharmacological agents used in the management of neonates are discussed. Pharmacologic principles are reviewed and applied to the use of drugs in the level II or III NICU. The clinical use of drugs in the management of specific illnesses of the neonate are explored. In addition, legal considerations for the Advanced Practice Nurse are stressed.
408 Health and Society (2)
Prerequisite: Admission to the MSN program. This course addresses issues relevant to developing an understanding of the wide diversity of cultural influences on human behavior, including ethnic, racial, gender, and age differences. Emphasis is on recognizing and appropriately addressing comprehensive health care needs and implications for nursing interventions.
409NA Role of the Nurse Administrator (2)
Prerequisite: Admission to the MSN program. This course builds on the fundamentals of advanced nursing practice by focusing on the subrole of the nurse administrator. Content focuses on essential knowledge for today's senior and executive level nurse managers in health care.
409NE Role of the Nurse Educator (2)
Prerequisite: Admission to the MSN program. This course facilitates development of the nurse educator role in a variety of settings. Knowledge and skills essential for the enactment of the nurse educator role are provided.
409NS/NP Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist/Nurse Practitioner (2)
Prerequisite: Admission to the MSN program. In this course, the student explores professional role issues affecting advanced practice nurse (APNs). The course facilitates the role development of nurses who desire to function as primary care providers (nurse practitioners) or as specialists within a particular clinical area (clinical nurse specialists). Core concepts include: communication, collaboration, advocacy, negotiation, standards of practice, and subroles of advanced nursing practice.
410 Health Promotion Across the Life Span (3)
Pre or corequisite: Nursing 411, and any three of the following: Nursing 405, 406, 408, 409 (NA, NE, or NS/NP). This course is designed to provide students with a conceptual basis of health promotion and health protection for clients across the life span. Clients are conceptualized as individuals, families and populations. An application of various developmental theories for the child, adult, older adult, and family will provide the basis to individualize health care needs for various age and family groups. Core concepts include theories of health, health promotion ad protection, epidemiology, disease and injury prevention, health education, growth and development, nutrition, and family systems theory.
411 Theoretical Foundations in Nursing (3)
Prerequisite: Admission to the MSN program. This course analyzes major concepts and theories relevant to nursing. Ethical issues and dilemmas inherent in advanced nursing practice are also addressed.
412 Quantitative Methods in Nursing Research (3)
Prerequisites: Nursing 373 or equivalent; Nursing 411 (may be taken concurrently). This course provides the principles and techniques common to scientific investigation as applied to nursing. A plan of study for a nursing problem is developed.
415 Conceptual Structure of Nursing (3)
Prerequisites: Admission to PhD in Nursing Program or consent of instructor. This course focuses on the discipline of nursing including the substantive content as expressed in theoretical systems and the development of this substantive content through scholarly inquiry. The evolution and state of the art of conceptual and theoretical development in nursing are examined. One nursing theory is studied in depth to illustrate the process of theory development. Concept mapping showing relationships between and among terms is accomplished.
416 Nursing Practice Theories and Models
Prerequisites: Admission to PhD in Nursing program or consent of instructor and N 415 or N481. This course focuses on the development of nursing practice theory, and nursing practice models, from the perspective of various populations and other theories. Nursing protocols, procedures, rules of practice, and systems for delivering care for selected populations or subpopulations are developed.
418 Nursing Case Analyses in Acute and Critical Care of the Elderly (3)
Prerequisite: N451, 461A or 461F. From clinical practice with elderly, case analyses of acutely and critically ill elderly are developed and discussed in seminar. This is a clinical course.
448 Pathophysiology for Advanced Nursing Practice (3)
Prerequisite or corequisite: Nursing 445. This course focuses on implications for advanced nursing practice through examination of selected pathophysiological phenomena which occur frequently in the diverse populations to whom advanced nurses provide care.
448N Physiology/Pathophysiology of the Neonate (3)
Prerequisites: Admission to the MSN Neonatal susbspecialty track or consent of instructor. Corequisite: 404N. Concepts of embryology, neonatal physiology and pathophysiology are used to provide an in-depth study of normal functioning and alteration of normal physiological functioning in cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems. Alterations form the basis for understanding a variety of pathophysiological conditions and the manifestations and impact of abnormal physiological functioning on neonates. Both generalized processes and major system dysfunctions are addressed.
451 Nursing Assessment of the Elderly (3)
Prerequisite: N404. Practice in adaptations of the traditional health history and physical examination of adults is addressed in this course focusing on the elderly. This is a clinical course, requiring a geriatric physician or advanced practice nurse preceptor.
457 Qualitative Methods in Nursing Research (3)
Prerequisites: Nursing 450; 455 or equivalent. This course introduces the skills necessary to understand and conduct qualitative research in nursing. Emphasis is placed on utilization of qualitative research methods in the study of selected nursing problems.
458 Research Utilization in Nursing (3)
Prerequisites: Nursing 445 and 455. This course prepares nurses to implement a research utilization model to validate practice. The theoretical basis for research utilization and practical instances of its application in nursing is examined. Opportunities are provided to develop a research utilization plan to address a clinical area of practice.
461A Adult Health Management (4-5)
Prerequisite: N407, 448, 460, 471, NS/NP. Corequisite: N404 and 411. This course is designed to provide the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills from advanced assessment, pathophysiology, health promotion and theory to advanced nursing care of adult clients and families experiencing selected problems. Emphasis is placed on using models and theories that guide advanced practice and planning research-based care. Focus is to educate the advanced practice nurse to assess, diagnose and plan care for clients with common adult health problems.
461C Child Health Management (4-5)
Prerequisite: N407, 448, 460, 471, NS/NP. Corequisite: N 404 and 411. This course is designed to provide the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills form advanced assessment, pathophysiology, health promotion, and theory to advanced nursing care of children and families experiencing selected problems. Emphasis is placed on using models and theories that guide advanced practice and planning research-based care. Focus is to educate the advanced practice nurse to assess, diagnose and plan care for clients with common pediatric health problems.
461F Family Health Management (4-5)
Prerequisite: N 407, 460, 448, 471 NS/NP. Corequisite: N 404 and 411. This course is designed to present the concepts and skills essential to primary care of families experiencing selected health problems. Emphasis is given to those health problems most commonly encountered by the Family Nurse Practitioner. A research and theory based approach is used with focus on relevant assessment, differential diagnosis and subsequent nursing management.
461N Neonatal Nursing I (3)
Prerequisites: 404N, 407N, 448N or consent of instructor. Corequisite: 462N or consent of instructor. The first of two courses that integrate the physiologic, pharmacologic, and assessment skills and principles in determining appropriate care of the ill neonate. Current research and evidenced-based practices are used as the course framework. The effects of critical conditions on the growth and development of the neonate, including subsequent chronic health problems as well as the short and long term consequences to the child's family are emphasized. Disorders of the central nervous, pulmonary, and cardiovascular systems will be discussed. The use of specific interventions and diagnostic procedures are demonstrated and applied in laboratory/clinical settings during forty hours of required clinical activities.
461W Women's Health Management (4-5)
Prerequisite: N407, 448, 460, 471 NS/SP. Corequisite: N 404 and 411. This course is designed to provide opportunity to apply knowledge and skills form advanced assessment, pathophysiology, health promotion, and theory of advanced nursing care of women and their families experiencing common health situations. Emphasis is placed on using models and theories that guide advanced practice and planning research-based care. Focus is to educate the advanced practice nurse to assess, diagnose and plan care for clients with common women's health care needs.
462 Nursing Case Analyses in Long-term Care of the Elderly (3)
Prerequisite: N451, 461A or 461F. From clinical practice with the elderly, nursing case analyses in long-term care of commonly living/frail elderly and nursing care of elderly in residential long-term care are developed. This is a clinical course, requiring an approved preceptor.
462N Neonatal Nursing II (3)
Prerequisites: 404N, 407N, 448N, or consent of instructor. Corequisite: 461 N or consent of instructor. The second of two courses that integrate the physiologic, pharmacologic, and assessment skills and principles in determining appropriate care of the ill neonate. Current research and evidence-based practices are used as the framework. The effects of critical conditions on the growth and development of the neonate, including subsequent chronic health problems as well as the short and long term consequences to the child's family are emphasized. Disorders of the gastrointestinal, renal, endocrine, hematologic, musculoskeletal, opthalmologic, dermatologic and immune systems will be discussed. The use of specific interventions and diagnostic procedures are demonstrated and applied in laboratory/clinical settings during forty hours of required clinical activities.
464F Acute and Chronic Problems in the Family II: Adult (4)
Prerequisites: Nursing 404, 445, and 448. CorequisiteNursing 450. This clinical course is designed to examine concepts and skills essential to family nurse practitioners. Advanced nursing care of families experiencing acute and chronic health problems with particular emphasis on adult health will be addressed.
470 Special Topics in Advanced Practice Nursing (13)
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. Explore special topics for the advanced practice nurse in the areas of research, theory, education and administration. No more than three hours shall be applied toward the degree. This course is for graduate MSN or Ph.D. levels.
472 Synthesis Practicum (3)
Prerequisites: All required courses except culminating research project. This clinical course is a concentrated, experiential opportunity to function in the advanced practice nursing role of nurse administrator or nurse educator.
473 Measurement of Nursing Phenomenon (3)
Prerequisites: N 445. The theoretical basis of measurement is presented in a foundation for the development and evaluation of measurement instruments and procedure for use in nursing research. Content is presented regarding measurement theories, techniques of construction, statistical analysis of reliability and validity and strengths and limitations of selected measures of nursing research.
474A Advanced Practice Nursing: Internship I (2)
Prerequisite: All required graduate Nursing courses except advanced research component. May be taken concurrently with 474B and 474C. This clinical course provides opportunity for the initiation of the nurse practitioner role with selected populations. Students participate in precepted experiences with certified nurse practitioners and/or primary care physicians for a minimum of 200 hours. Frequent clinical seminars included. Enrollment limited to those in the practitioner functional role.
474B Advanced Practice Nursing: Internship II (2)
Prerequisite: All required graduate Nursing courses except advanced research component. May be taken concurrently with 474A and 474C. This clinical course is a continuation of precepted clinical experiences with selected populations initiated in Nursing 474A. Students satisfy a minimum of 200 precepted hours with a certified nurse practitioner and/or primary care physician and participate in frequent clinical seminars. Agency used may be the same as that used for Nursing 474A or agency may be changed with consent of instructor. Enrollment is limited to those in the practitioner functional role.
474C Advanced Practice Nursing: InternshipIII (2)
Prerequisite: All required Nursing courses. May be taken concurrently with 474A and 474B. This course serves as the culminating precepted clinical experience for the graduate nurse practitioner. A minimum of 200 precepted hours is spent with a certified nurse practitioner and/or primary care physician. Agency used may be the same as that used in Nursing 474B or may be changed with consent of instructor. Activities associated with final preparation for national certification examinations are included. Enrollment limited to those in the nurse practitioner functional role. Must be taken final semester of study.
475 Special Study in Graduate Nursing (13)
Prerequisites: Nursing 445 and permission of the instructor. Indepth study of selected topics in nursing under the guidance of a specific instructor. No more than three hours may be applied to the master's program of study.
476 Instrument Development (3)
Prerequisites: Graduate level statistics/research course and approval of instructor. The purpose of this course is to provide an indepth study of the development and testing of nursing/health care instruments. Study will allow the student to develop expertise in nursing instrument development including theoretical foundations, item construction, validity and reliability assessment, data collection and manuscript development related to this process. This course includes computer data input and statistical analysis functions.
477 Thesis/Directed Research Seminar (1)
Prerequisites: Nursing 455 and permission of thesis/directed research chair. Presentation and discussion of selected research problems in nursing.
478 Directed Research (1-6)
Prerequisites: Nursing 455 and permission of faculty research adviser. Individual participation in the investigation of a research problem of relevance to nursing under the direction of a faculty research adviser.
479 Research Thesis (1-6)
Prerequisites: Nursing 455 and permission of faculty. Individual investigation of a research problem of relevance to nursing. Student works under the direction of a faculty committee to prepare and orally defend a thesis.
480 Doctoral Seminar (1-10)
Prerequisites: Admission to PhD in Nursing Program and consent of instructor. This course provides for discussion, analysis, and critique of selected contemporary issues and research in nursing. Topics will be chosen from among issues in health promotion and protection, health restoration and support, and health care systems. May be repeated for maximum of 10 hours on unduplicated topics.
481 Nursing Theory Analysis and Development (3)
Prerequisites: Admission to PhD in Nursing Program and N450 or equivalent. This course examines foundations of nursing using both traditional and hermeneutic methods of theory analysis and evaluation. Relevant historical and contemporary writings are analyzed.
485 Issues and Methods in Quantitative Analysis in Nursing (3)
Prerequisites: N455 or equivalent; graduate level quantitative research methods course and graduate course work in univariate and multivariate applied statistics. This course provides the opportunity to consolidate prior knowledge of quantitative analysis methods; to apply those methods to the analysis of nursing phenomena; and to explore at an advanced level issues relevant to their use in nursing. Techniques of particular use in the analysis of health data will be considered.
499 Dissertation Research (1-12)
Prerequisites: Admission to Ph.D. in Nursing Program with a faculty mentor. Credit awarded only upon successful defense of the dissertation. This course provides for investigations of an advanced nature leading to the presentation of a dissertation.
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