NURSE 5564NE      Clinical for Nurse Educators
This clinical course provides students an opportunity to develop advanced knowledge and clinical skills in an acute care clinical setting. Clinical practice hours will be spent in a variety of settings providing the students the opportunity to provide clinical education and advanced patient care in a speciality population. The students demonstrate their clinical development by evaluating the process of nursing care (assessment, intervention/management, evaluation) from an evidence-based perspective incorporating advanced pharmacologic concepts. The course will include two hours of didactic and three hours of clinical practice which includes a minimum of 180 clinical hours. Prerequisites: All required courses except N5572 and N5598 (can be co-requisite)
Credits: 5 hours
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NURSE 5564W      Primary Health Care Of Women
This course is designed to prepare the woman's health nurse practitioner student to manage the primary health care of women. This course will focus on the etiology, symptomatology, diagnosis and management of gynecologic and non-gynecologic primary health care problems throughout the lifespan. Emphasis will be placed on caring for women within a holistic framework and recognizing how the changing roles of women in today's society can affect their lives and their health status. Concepts, theories and evidence-based practice related to health promotion, health maintenance and restoration, illness prevention and collaboration will be addressed. Core content: differential diagnosis, management, adherence, anticipatory guidance, patient/family education, adaptation and crisis, legal and professional issues, standards of practice, and advanced practice role competencies. This course will consist of three credit hours of didactic/discussion and two credit hours of clinical practice for a minimum of 165 hours in the clinical setting. Prerequisites: NURSE 5526, NURSE 5547W, NURSE 5548, NURSE 5550 & pre/co-requisite: NURSE 5549
Credits: 5 hours
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NURSE 5566A      Primary Care of Adults II
This course is designed to prepare adult nurse practitioner (NP) students in the care and management of adults and adult population with chronic health problems. The focus of the course is on the differentiation and therapeutic management of chronic health problems encountered by adult NP's in various health care setting. Emphasis is given to those chronic health issues most commonly encountered by adult NP's. Students will be expected to apply cumulative knowledge acquired from previous graduate courses. This course enables students to develop a research and theory based practice for disease state management of health care for adults. Core concepts: theories, grief and loss, chronicity and pain; and advanced nursing skills. This four credit hour course consists of two of didactic/discussion per week and 165 hours (2 credit hours) of clinical/lab semester. Prerequisites: NURSE 5564A, NURSE 5549
Credits: 4 hours
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NURSE 5566C      Chronic Child Health Care (Clinical II)
This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to apply knowledge and skill from advanced assessment, pathophysiology, pharmacology, health promotion, research and theory to advanced nursing care of patients and families experiencing complex or chronic health problems. Emphasis is placed on using models and theories that guide advanced practice and on determining the current research base on nursing assessment and management in several specific areas of knowledge. The organizing framework for this course is case management of chronic health states. Students will apply several theoretical models to acute and chronic health states of children at various developmental stages representing various socioeconomic and cultural groups, either in primary or specialized care settings. Core concepts are stress and coping, adaptation, pain management, grief and loss, nutritional support, ethical decision-making, case management, and symptom management. This four credit hour course will constist of two hours of didactic and two hours of clinical practice (165 hours). Prerequisites: NURSE 5564C
Credits: 4 hours
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NURSE 5566F      Primary Care of Families II
This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to apply knowledge from previous family nurse practitioner courses to advanced primary care nursing of individuals and families across the life span. The focus of the course is on the application of the nursing process in the differentiation and therapeutic management of stable chronic health problems encountered by family nurse practitioners in the primary health care setting. Emphasis is on the integration of advanced nursing concepts and pharmacokinetic principles in the care of individuals and families. Core content includes stress and coping, adaptation, pain management, and grief and loss. This four hour course consists of two hours of didactic/discussion per week and 165 (two credit hours) of clinical/lab per semester. Prerequisites: NURSE 5549 and NURSE 5564F
Credits: 4 hours
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NURSE 5566M      Family Psychiatric Nursing Advanced Practice II
In this course, management of mental health problems will expand beyond the individual to include families, groups and the greater community. This course will emphasize development of psychotherapy skills by the advanced practice nurse. Theoretical foundations and intervention approaches for individuals, group and family therapies will be explored. Unique or modified approaches for pediatric and older adult populations will be covered. Students will be exposed to the common psychotherapy modalities and will begin to identify which approaches they will adopt and utilize in psychotherapy clinical experiences. Clinical management will also be expanded from outpatient settings to include crisis evaluation and inpatient care. A minimum of 165 clinical hours are required in this course. Patients seen in clinical settings will be across the lifespan. The course consist of three hours didactic/discussion and two hours of clinical/lab credit (165 clock hours). Prerequisites: N5564M and N 5549
Credits: 4 hours
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NURSE 5566N      Neonatal Nursing II
This course integrates the physiologic, pharmacological, and assessment skills and principals in determining appropriate care of the ill neonate. This course covers case management of the gastrointestinal, renal, endocrine, hematologic, orthopedic, dermatolotic and immune system disorders while the concurrent course, NURSE 5566N, covers the respiratory, cardiovascular and neurologic disorders.Current research and evidence based practices are used as the course framework. The effects of clinical 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. The use of specific interventions and diagnostic procedures are demonstrated and applied in laboratory / clinical settings during the forty hours of required clinical activities. This three credit hour course consists of two hours of didactic / discussion and one hour of clinical experience consisting of laboratory, clinical seminars, clinical observation and practice. Prerequisite: NURSE 5549N, Corequisite: NURSE 5566N
Credits: 3 hours
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NURSE 5566W      Care Of The Childbearing Woman
This course is designed to prepare the woman's health nurse practitioner students in the care and management of the childbearing woman. The focus of the course is on the normal adaptation and pathologic alterations throughout the childbearing period. Emphasis is placed on management of women and families from preconception through the puerperium. Concepts, theories and evidence-based research related to the biopsychosocial and cultural aspects of childbearing will be addressed. Core concepts include adaptation, stress and coping, grief and loss, pain and symptoms management. This course will consist of two credit hours of didactic/discussion and two credit hours of clinical experience to consist of a minimum of 165 hours in the clinical setting. Prerequisite: NURSE 5564PW
Credits: 4 hours
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NURSE 5572      Advanced Nursing Practice: Synthesis Practicum
This course is a concentrated, experiential, supervised clinical opportunity to function in an advanced practice nursing role. The focus of this intensive clinical practicum is on the synthesis and application of previous theory and clinical courses under the guidance of a preceptor. Students will be expected to apply advanced clinical decision making skills and evidence based practice guidelines to the assessment, management, and evaluation of complex healthcare problems. Core concepts include advanced nursing practice, functional role responsibilities, ethical, legal and health policy issues, and activities with the emphasis on their relationship to patient outcomes. The patient systems for this experience include individuals and families within the context of community. Students will obtain a minimum of 330 hours of clinical/conferences (4 hours) and one hour of didactic content for the semester. Prerequisites: All required courses except N 5598/5599 and electives.
Credits: 5 hours
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NURSE 5572II      Preceptorship II
This course provides oppertunities to apply knowledge and skills from advanced nursing role, theory, research and noenatal clinical courses to the advances therapeutic management of hish-risk neonates. This is the first of two preceptorships courses. The other course, NURSE 5572NI, can be taken concurrently or in consectuive semesters. Emphasis is placed on therepeutic measures within a conceptual framework or model applying findings from research relevant to comprehensive care of neonates. The client system will be the neonate and family. This course consists of five credit hours of clinical experiences consiting of a minimum of 300 hours of pratice and clinical seminars. Pre or Co-requisites: NURSE 5572NI
Credits: 5 hours
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NURSE 5572M      Advanced Nursing Practice: Synthesis Practicum
This course is a concentrated, experimental, supervised clinical opportunity to function in a psychiatric advanced practice nursing role. The focus of this intensive clinical practicum is on the synthesis and application of previous theory and clinical courses under the guidance of a preceptor. Students will be expected to apply advanced clinical decision making skills and evidence based practice guidelines to the assessment, management, and evaluation of complex healthcare problems. Core concepts include advanced nursing practice, functional role responsibilities, ethical, legal and health policy issues, consultation/collaboration and activities with the emphasis on their relationship to patient outcomes. A minimum of 330 clinical hours is required. Patients seen in clinical settings will be across the lifespan. The course consists of one hour didactic/discussion and four hours of clinical/lab credit (330 clock hours) Prerequisites: All required courses except N5598.
Credits: 5 hours
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NURSE 5572NA      Advanced Nursing Practice: Synthesis Practicum
This course is designed to afford the student a concentrated, experiential opportunity to function in the role she/he has chosen to pursue professionally. This course consists of nine hours of clinical experience per week and a conference every other week. Prerequisites: All courses except NURSE 5598 / NURSE 5599.
Credits: 3 hours
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NURSE 5572NE      Synthesis Practicum for Nurse Educators
This course provides the student a concentrated, experiential opportunity to function in the role as a nurse educator. Core concepts include functional role responsibilities, teaching strategies and theory utilization. Emphasis is placed on professional role development and the concept of lifelong learning. This course consists of three hours of clinical which requires a minimum of 180 clinical hours. Prerequisites: All required courses except NURSE 5598; Post-master's certificate students only may also take N5516 as a co-requisite
Credits: 3 hours
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NURSE 5572NI      Preceptorship I
This course provides opportunities to apply knowledge and skills from advanced nursing role, theory, research and neonatal clinical courses to the advanced therapeutic management of high-risk neonates. This is the first of two preceptorships courses. The other course, NURSE 5572NII, can be taken concurrently or in consecutive semesters. Emphasis is placed on therapeutic measures within a conceptual framework or model applying findings from research relevant to comprehensive care of neonates. The client system will be the neonate and family. This course consists of five credit hours of clinical experiences consisting of a minimum of 300 hours of practice and clinical seminars. Prerequisites: NURSE 5564N, NURSE 5566N
Credits: 5 hours
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NURSE 5587      Research Utilization In Nursing
This course will prepare nurses to implement a research utilization model to validate practice. The theoretical basis for research utilization and practical instances of its application in nursing will be examined. Opportunities will be provided to develop a research utilization plan to address a clinical area of practice. Prerequisites: NURSE 5550, NURSE 5555
Credits: 3 hours
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NURSE 5597A      Independent Study In Nursing/Patient Care-Elective
Guided study of selected topics and/or areas in nursing and/or patient care. Prerequisites: NURSE 550 and permission of faculty.
Credits: 1-6 hours
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NURSE 5597B      Independent Study In Nursing/Patient Care-Equivalent
Guided study of selected topics and/or areas in nursing and/or patient care. Prerequisites: NURSE 550 and permission of faculty.
Credits: 1-6 hours
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NURSE 5597EC      Independent Study In Nursing
Independent Study In Nursing
Credits: 1-6 hours
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NURSE 5597HA      Independent Study in Nursing
Credits: 1-6 hours
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NURSE 5597LS      Independent Study In Nursing
Credits: 1-6 hours
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