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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course continues from NURS 626. Its focus is continuing development skills in gathering clinical data, diagnostic reasoning and clinical reasoning. Analysis and synthesis of patient data to evaluate and appropriately mange acute and chronic illness across the lifespan is emphasized. Prerequisite:    NURS 6011, NURS 6022, NURS 6099, NURS 6111, NURS 6122, NURS 6144, NURS 6155, NURS 6166, NURS 6266, NURS 6277, NURS 6366, NURS 6377, NURS 6455, NURS 6466, and NURS 6477 Corequisite:    NURS 6577
  • 4.00 Credits

    This seminar/clinical practicum includes a 224-hour of clinical practicum that gives students an opportunity to implement the objectives identified in NURS 656. Students will select clinical settings that provide opportunities for health promotion, disease prevention, and diagnosis and management with an emphasis on advanced illness care and the management of chronic diseases in adults. Additional seminar time will include virtual grand rounds and other sessions to augment the clinical experiences. Prerequisite:    NURS 6011, NURS 6022, NURS 6099, NURS 6111, NURS 6122, NURS 6144, NURS 6155, NURS 6166, NURS 6266, NURS 6277, NURS 6366, NURS 6377, NURS 6455, NURS 6466, and NURS 6477 Corequisite:    NURS 6566
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to provide nurse administrators and leaders with an understanding of organization, management, and leadership theories as they apply to today's healthcare delivery systems. In addition students will explore leadership skills and decision making in the provision of culturally responsive, high-quality nursing care, healthcare team coordination, and oversight and accountability for care delivery and outcomes. Students will demonstrate the ability to develop a strategic plan and incorporate a collaborative team.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This nursing administration and leadership specialty course focuses on health care knowledge and transformational leadership skills and competencies essential to the role development of nurse leaders and administrators for the 21st century. Students discover how to develop high-performance practice areas and how the leadership role is advanced through mentorship and career development. Contemporary studies and models for leadership competency are explored, and students critically self-assess their own competence, developing action plans in those areas they perceive as deficient. The role of managing one's personal resources in developing leadership competency is addressed. Students also gain competence in managing human resources. Concepts, models and principles of continuous quality improvement, tools and techniques for improving quality and performance are broadened. Students identify a quality topic and plan in preparation for completing the practicum project in NURS 7155.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course includes an introduction to the laws, regulations and court decisions covering the employment relationship, including labor-management relations, OSHA, EEOC, ERISA, ADA, etc. Health care law and an overview of practical ways to improve the quality and safe delivery of nursing care in health care organizations will also be reviewed. This course explores the most pressing legal and ethical issues and concerns related to the delivery of patient care and the administration of nursing services. This course is structured to present theories of ethical practice, as well as issues of the law related to health care delivery.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is intended to prepare the student to effectively interact with financial management staff and participate in various aspects of financial control and planning. Included will be a historical perspective of financial management in health care, identifying trends in the industry and the forces that influence the financing of health care organizations. Financial statements, the interpretation and analysis of financial reports, and topics such as cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and capital management will also be addressed. Consideration will be given to the cost effectiveness and financial future of healthcare organizations.
  • 6.00 Credits

    This course provides students with the opportunity to synthesize and apply their understanding of nursing administration and leadership within and across complex integrated organizational and institutional boundaries. In this culminating experience, students plan, execute, and evaluate nursing practice within the context of the practice setting(s) or among a specific population of interest within the organization or in communities. Within the practice situation, students enact leadership roles to expand, enhance, and optimize positive outcomes. The learning experience consists of an administrative practicum and online seminars. This culminating experience of the graduate program is designed to provide students with an opportunity to apply the knowledge and competencies acquired throughout the program of study to actual and simulated practicum situations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides an overview of program expectations. Provides the advanced practice nurse leadership skills for empowering and influencing others to bring about change. Explores the role of the DNP APN as an expert clinician, researcher, and health policy advocate and educator. Focus is on understanding multiple perspectives and applying theories of leadership, organizational behavior, and systems to a variety of settings. Ethical and legal strategies to influence procedures and policy will be emphasized. The student will begin to develop research ideas and develop an internship plan.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides students with essential knowledge and skills to utilize information and management systems to support evidence based practice. Utilizes large databases for quality improvement of advanced nursing practice. The role of information management systems and data bases in health care will be discussed. Students will employ information technology to implement decision support programs that are pertinent to improved practice.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Emphasis is on analytical methods to critically appraise evidence-based literature and translate research to clinical practice. Students appraise current literature related to their chosen topic, constructing an evidence basis for their selected practice project. Offered fall annually.