Description: The course prepares advanced practice nurses for ethics leadership within the broader healthcare arena. Links are made among philosophical/theoretical foundations of nursing, ethical theory, and nursing goals. Skills supportive of the ethical decision making of nurses, peers, and the team are developed with in-class opportunities to practice leading ethics rounds and developing ethics education projects. An emphasis is placed on facilitating the interests of current and future patients and society as a professional obligation. Socially derived injustices and professional responsibility to advocate for just healthcare is highlighted along with strategies to influence institutional and health policy on behalf of individual and social good.
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Location and Time: Carney Hall 305 M 09:00AM-11:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 34 / Total Seats: 35
Description: This course prepares graduate nursing students to become leaders in health care. Self-reflection, self-assessment, and values clarification provide the groundwork for a nursing leadership self-development plan. Students will explore a broad range of evidence-based approaches, including leadership and organizational theories, to prepare them to lead in today's complex health care environment including practice, organization, system, academic, and policy arenas. Students will explicate the complexities of health care leadership through the examination of topics such as change management, partnership relationships, innovation, accountability models, organizational culture, diversity and inclusion, conflict management, power, creating trust and psychological safety within teams.
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Location and Time: On-line Asynchronous
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 48 / Total Seats: 45
Description: This course prepares nurse leaders and scholars to influence health care and related policies in support of nursing's goals and social justice. The structure and financing of U.S. health care system and roles of government, insurers, providers, and consumers are examined. The relationships among health policy and the social and economic determinants of health are explored through analysis of key issues in health policy. Students engage in strategies to analyze and inform health policy. The course provides the foundation for leadership in interdisciplinary collaborative endeavors to address, through a nursing perspective, health policy issues at the local and national levels.
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Location and Time: On-line Asynchronous
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 28 / Total Seats: 30
Description: This course provides a broad overview of evidence-based advanced practice nursing. Philosophical, conceptual, and theoretical perspectives as well as research methods are examined. The graduate nursing student will explore the application of nursing knowledge and knowledge from related disciplines to inform, evaluate, and translate evidence for practice.
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Location and Time: ASYNCHRONOUS
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 32 / Total Seats: 35
Description: Information, communication, and analytical technologies and informatics processes are used to providecare, gather data, inform decision-making, and support nursing professionals as they expand knowledge forpractice. This course will explore how informatics processes and healthcare technologies are used tomanage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance withbest practices and professional and regulatory standards.
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Location and Time: Tu 04:30PM-07:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 20 / Total Seats: 30
Description: This is the second of four courses to prepare DNP students to conduct an organization approved, scholarly inquiry project to improve health services and patient outcomes. Students critically evaluate the literature and related information to address a health care problem. Scholarly inquiry approaches are presented to enable students to identify a problem, plan change to improve a process or outcome, or develop innovative solutions related to health care delivery. Upon course completion, there will be a faculty and organization approved DNP project charter, which includes the problem, processes, and expected outcomes.
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Location and Time: M 06:00PM-07:00PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 22 / Total Seats: 22
Description: Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and its methods are used in the control of diseases and other health problems in diverse populations. This course introduces basic principles and methods of epidemiology and biostatistics. Measures of disease frequency, association and causation, the design and analysis of studies, and the potential issues that may arise in these studies are addressed. This course prepares advanced practice nurses to engage in inter-professional collaboration with the ultimate goal of improving population health.
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 306 W 04:30PM-07:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 18 / Total Seats: 35
Description: Various qualitative approaches to research typically used in nursing and health science will be examined. Topics will include research paradigms, postpositivism, critical, constructivism, participatory, qualitative rigor, ethics, problem identification, research purpose and specific aims, literature review, sampling strategy and techniques, sample, multiple data collection techniques, data management, multiple strategies for data analysis, differentiating data vs. findings, constructing findings that are congruent with the research aims and specific qualitative approaches, and conclusion-drawing. The course will provide students with experience in conducting data analysis from several qualitative approaches, as well as presentation and critique of in-class and homework data analysis activities.
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Location and Time: M 04:00PM-06:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 5 / Total Seats: 8
Description: This course focuses on conceptual understanding and application of generalized linear modeling to health-related research questions and real-world health data. Students will develop skills in the performance and interpretation of techniques such as multivariate linear, logistic, gamma and negative binomial regression. This course also will cover common functions within generalized linear modeling such as tests of interaction, moderator and mediator, as well as multilevel modeling, handling of complex sampling designs and common approaches to model selection. Applying health statistics as part of a logical argument is emphasized in this course as opposed to detailed knowledge of the underlying mathematics.
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Location and Time: Maloney 296
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 11 / Total Seats: 15
Description: TBD
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Location and Time: By Arrangement
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 1 / Total Seats: 1