Description: This course features a case-based approach that emphasizes early problem identification, advanced evaluation, intervention, and collaborative care for children through young adults with developmental-behavioral or mental health (DBMH) concerns. A biopsychosocial, developmental, interdisciplinary approach is used as the foundation for explicating family-basedpsychotherapeutic interventions and indications for referral of patients with complex DBMH concerns. Students will build skills to identify and evaluate a variety of multidisciplinary resources to enhance quality DBHM services and promote optimal socioemotional development and functioning. Sociocultural influences are critically analyzed and considered as a basis for advocacy and policy development.
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Location and Time: Carney Hall 303 Tu 01:00PM-03:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 18 / Total Seats: 15
Description: This course examines the legal, ethical, and therapeutic role of the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) in prescribing psychotropic medications for individuals with psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. The neurobiology, action of medications that affect the central nervous system, and implications for ethno-psychopharmacology will be explored. Standardized tools to evaluate diagnostic criteria and treatment efficacy will be analyzed. Evidence-based practice principles, collaborative practice models, indications for referral, and monitoring to enhance treatment adherence will be integrated throughout the course.
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Location and Time: Higgins Hall 280 Tu 04:30PM-07:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 10 / Total Seats: 10
Description: The first of three in the Psychiatric-Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing series, this course focuses on promoting optimal mental health treatment for populations in diverse settings through practice, leadership, and advocacy that is evidence-based, reflective, and ethical. Students examine neurobiological, psychosocial, developmental, and nursing frameworks to conduct mental health evaluations and risk assessments; formulate diagnoses; and implement evidence-based, patient-centered care across the lifespan. Societal influences on mental health, such as race, ethnicity, gender, poverty and violence are explored; and factors related to mental health promotion and treatment are identified.
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Location and Time: Carney Hall 303 Tu 09:00AM-11:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 13 / Total Seats: 13
Description: This course examines major approaches to individual psychotherapy, including psychodynamic, humanistic, interpersonal, behavioral, cognitive, dialectical behavioral, brief, and multicultural perspectives. Commonalities and differences among the processes and techniques are explored. Selected theorists and their approaches to psychotherapy will be evaluated as examples of major schools of thought concerning the nature of the psychotherapeutic relationship. Applications among diverse individuals and populations across the lifespan are critically examined.
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Location and Time: Higgins Hall 280 Tu 01:00PM-03:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 13 / Total Seats: 13
Description: The first of three in the Women's Health/Gender-Related Advanced Practice Nursing series, this course focuses on health promotion, prevention, and management of common alterations in sexual and reproductive health, while accounting for individual differences. Health disparities associated with gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are examined and remediation strategies explored. Theoretical, evidence-based, and cost-effective clinical approaches to common women's health and gender-specific primary care problems are emphasized.
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Location and Time: Mcguinn Hall 526 Tu 09:00AM-11:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 7 / Total Seats: 7
Description: This course, the second in a 6-course sequence, provides the nurse anesthesia student with the experience of caring for patients requiring increasingly complex and specialty surgical procedures. The course runs concurrently with NURS9852, Advanced Practice Principles for the Nurse Anesthetist I, such that didactic content presented during that course is applied to patient care through seminar, simulation and clinical practice. Students move from novice level to advanced beginner level as they adapt foundational principles of nurse anesthesia care to unique situations under the guidance of experienced nurse anesthesia preceptors.
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Location and Time: By Arrangement
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 19 / Total Seats: 19
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Location and Time: Carney Hall 305 M 07:00AM-08:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 19 / Total Seats: 19
Description: This course focuses on individualization of anesthesia care for patients across the lifespan. Anesthesia considerations for the pediatric and geriatric patient are explored. The anesthetic needs of the parturient including issues of prematurity and obstetric complications are presented. The course also explores the complexity of anesthetic management for the patient undergoing cardiac surgery, organ transplantation and trauma surgery along with the management of acute and chronic pain.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 205S M 09:00AM-11:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 19 / Total Seats: 19
Description: This course enables the student to enhance competency in caring for patients undergoing surgery and anesthesia. Each student develops an individualized plan of anesthesia care based on patient assessment and surgical requirements for both routine and complex cases in consultation with experienced clinicians. Clinical experiences are based on the standards set forth by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs. Critical thinking and complex clinical judgments guide the planning and evaluation of anesthesia care. Business aspects of anesthesia practice management are integrated.
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Location and Time: By Arrangement
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 17 / Total Seats: 17
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Location and Time: Carney Hall 302 M 09:00AM-10:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 17 / Total Seats: 17
Description: This course introduces the student to fundamental knowledge crucial to nurse anesthesia practice. Discussion of patient safety begins in this course, along with legal aspects of nurse anesthesia practice. Key concepts related to patient assessment and fluid management are considered, as are equipment and technology basic to nurse anesthesia practice. Strategies for airway assessment and management and specific anesthesia techniques are reviewed. The importance of provider wellness is emphasized.
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Location and Time: Higgins Hall 225 W 01:00PM-03:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 20 / Total Seats: 20
Description: This course builds upon prior coursework in anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology of the endocrine, neurological, renal, gastrointestinal, hepatic, and hematologic systems. The emphasis will be on the assessment and management of anesthesia for patients with common and uncommon disorders of these systems.
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Location and Time: Carney Hall 303 M 01:00PM-03:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 20 / Total Seats: 20