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• NURS 510: Cardiovascular Function: Nursing Assessment & Treatment

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course focuses on evidence-based practice for the prevention and treatment of cardiac disease. Students appraise cardiac diagnostic studies, treatment, and interventions for effective interprofessional care for patients with cardiac disease. The effect of health disparities on cardiac disease is explored.
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• NURS 511: Advanced Healthcare Informatics

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth analysis of healthcare informatics. Emphasis will be on developing a comprehensive under-standing of the use of information systems in health care. Topics covered include health care data, information and knowledge, health care classifications and coding systems, and use of ethical and legal principles with information systems. In this course the focus is on applying computer, information, and health care concepts to real world problems in health care.
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• NURS 514: Bioterrorism and Disaster Management: The Nurse's Role

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will offer the opportunity for nursing students to acquire competencies required for disaster preparedness and response. Content will emphasize the major role f the nurse as an essential resource in disaster management to help ensure the best possible outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.
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• NURS 516: Nursing for Palliative and End-of-Life Issues

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to enhance the student's understanding of Palliative and End-of-Life Nursing as it relates to professional nursing practice. Students will explore various societal influences on death as well as physical and mental aspects of dying while emphasizing the need to care for the "whole person" in palliative and end-of-life caregiving.
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• NURS 517: Social Media and Healthcare

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to enhance the student's understanding of social media and its influence on current, professional healthcare practice. Students will explore various forms of social media, the internet and electronic devices to inform, support and empower the consumer in adhering to a healthier lifestyle, while enabling health care professionals to educate patients and consumers to effectively use available social media tools in managing health and health care.
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• NURS 590: Experimental

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.
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• NURS 595: Workshop

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.
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• NURS 598: Selected Topics

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.
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• NURS 601: Advanced Concepts in Pathophysiology

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is devoted to the study of the physiological process of disease and the body's response to this process. It is the goal of the course to present broad physiological principles that nurse practitioners can apply to their clinical experiences. Specific diseases are used to exemplify pathophysiological concepts, and treatment is examined at the molecular level as response to the pathophysiology. The course investigates exogenous causes of diseases emphasizing infection, inflammation and the immune response as well as endogenous diseases of the nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, hepatic, pulmonary and renal systems. Fall annually.
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• NURS 602: Pharmacological Applications

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will cover principles of pharmacology as applied to advanced nursing practice, including drug effectiveness, mechanism and interaction. Emphasis will be on the pharmacological action of drugs on specific organ systems and the clinical use of drugs in treatment of disease conditions. Emphasis will be on critical decision-making skills in the selection of drug therapy, doses of drugs, routes of administration, and preferred therapy. This course focuses on pharmacologic implications for the family nurse practitioner working with individuals across the life span.
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