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Nursing
  

  • N 535PE-CBE - Healthcare Informatics

    3 Credits

    Explores development and utilization of healthcare informatics in the administration of healthcare agencies and institutions. Topics focus on the acquisition of clinical and financial information; information processing, analysis, and reporting; and informatics trends. This course includes 45 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 508PE-CBE  
  

  • N 537PE - Organizational Dynamics of Higher Education

    3 Credits

    Focuses on the organization of higher education institutions and the regulations and accreditation standards that guide the work of academic leadership. Explores topics such as organizational behavior, organizational culture, and organizational development.

    This course includes 15 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 532PE  
  

  • N 537PE-CBE - Organizational Dynamics of Higher Education

    3 Credits

    Focuses on the organization of higher education institutions and the regulations and accreditation standards that guide the work of academic leadership. Explores topics such as organizational behavior, organizational culture, and organizational development.

    This course includes 15 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 532PE-CBE  
  

  • N 540PE - Healthcare Finance and Economics

    3 Credits

    Healthcare financial management presents unique challenges not found in other industries. This course addresses both the financial management challenges and best practice solutions in this rapidly growing industry. This course includes 15 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 530PE  
  

  • N 540PE-CBE - Healthcare Finance and Economics

    3 Credits

    Healthcare financial management presents unique challenges not found in other industries. This course addresses both the financial management challenges and best practice solutions in this rapidly growing industry. This course includes 15 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 530PE-CBE  
  

  • N 541 - Concepts of Case Management

    3 Credits

    This course examines the history and evolution of the case manager concept from the inception through current practice models. The role and process of the case manager as an advanced nurse practitioner will be emphasized through various economic, political, cultural, legal and ethical scenarios. Collaboration between the interprofessional team and the case manager nurse in a variety of institutional environments is explored.
    Prerequisites: MSN Core Courses
  

  • N 541-CBE - Concepts of Case Management

    3 Credits

    Examines the history and evolution of the case manager concept from the inception through current practice models. Emphasizes the role and process of the case manager as an advanced nurse practitioner through various economic, political, cultural, legal, and ethical scenarios. Explores the collaboration between the interdisciplinary team and the case manager nurse in a variety of institutional environments.
    Prerequisites: MSN Core Courses
  

  • N 542 - Process of Case Management

    3 Credits

    Examines the case management and reimbursement process as it relates to various specialty areas of healthcare across the lifespan. Topics include quality improvement, patient outcomes and patient care plan development.
    Prerequisites: MSN Core Courses and N 541  
  

  • N 542-CBE - Process of Case Management

    3 Credits

    Examines the case management and reimbursement process as it relates to various specialty areas of healthcare across the lifespan. Topics include quality improvement, patient outcomes and patient care plan development.
    Prerequisites: MSN Core Courses, N 541-CBE  
  

  • N 543PE - Case Management and Evidence-Based Practice

    3 Credits

    Focuses on the process of evidence-based nursing case management patient care. Examines the role of the case manager as patient advocate and the incorporation of evidence-based care. Topics include identification of patient care innovations, implementation of the care, data collection of patient outcomes, and evaluation of the outcomes for continued care or revised care. This course includes 45 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 541  
  

  • N 543PE-CBE - Case Management and Evidence-Based Practice

    3 Credits

    Focuses on the process of evidence-based nursing case management patient care. Examines the role of the case manager as patient advocate and the incorporation of evidence-based care. Topics include identification of patient care innovations, implementation of the care, data collection of patient outcomes, and evaluation of the outcomes for continued care or revised care. This course includes 45 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 541-CBE  
  

  • N 544PE - Life Care Planning

    3 Credits

    Examines the financial and ethical aspects of life care planning as related to disease management, coordination of care, and the process of identifying long-term care for vulnerable populations. Examines patients with congenital complications, chronic illness, or complex injuries across the lifespan. This course includes 45 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 541  
  

  • N 544PE-CBE - Life Care Planning

    3 Credits

    Examines the financial and ethical aspects of life care planning as related to disease management, coordination of care, and the process of identifying long-term care for vulnerable populations. Examines patients with congenital complications, chronic illness, or complex injuries across the lifespan. This course includes 45 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 541-CBE  
  

  • N 545PE - Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

    3 Credits

    Students investigate strategic management and planning processes used in healthcare systems. The emphasis is on establishing fiscally responsible objectives, project management designs, and implementing strategic plans in a rapidly evolving healthcare delivery system. This course includes 15 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N530PE
  

  • N 545PE-CBE - Healthcare Strategic Management and Planning

    3 Credits

    Students investigate strategic management and planning processes used in healthcare systems. The emphasis is on establishing fiscally responsible objectives, project management designs, and implementing strategic plans in a rapidly evolving healthcare delivery system. This course includes 15 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N530PE-CBE
  

  • N 555PE - MSN Capstone

    3 Credits

    This course is the culminating experience for the graduate nursing student as an emerging scholar within their chosen specialization track. The student completes an analysis of an institutional need regarding their chosen population to develop and implement a final capstone project that is evidence-based and meets or exceeds applicable accreditation standards. Through synthesis and analysis of emerging trends in healthcare the student designs an evidence-based project applicable to the chosen MSN specialization track. Self-assessment of achievement of course and program outcomes as a foundation for life-long learning are demonstrated in an electronic portfolio. This course includes 130 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: MSN Core and Specialization Courses
  

  • N 555PE-CBE - MSN Capstone

    3 Credits

    This course is the culminating experience for the graduate nursing student as an emerging scholar within their chosen specialization track. The student completes an analysis of an institutional need regarding their chosen population to develop and implement a final capstone project that is evidence-based and meets or exceeds applicable accreditation standards. Through synthesis and analysis of emerging trends in healthcare the student designs an evidence-based project applicable to the chosen MSN specialization track. Self-assessment of achievement of course and program outcomes as a foundation for life-long learning are demonstrated in an electronic portfolio. This course includes 130 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: MSN Core and Specialization Courses
  

  • N 559 - Psychotropic Pharmacology

    3 Credits

    Building on a core knowledge of pathophysiology, pharmacology and neuroscience, this course will provide the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) graduate student with foundational knowledge specific to psychopharmacology and current, evidence-based prescribing practices in mental health for populations across the lifespan. Utilizing principles of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, modules will provide recommendations for prescribing the best psychotropic medication for presenting symptom sequelae unique to DSM-V diagnoses. Assigned readings in the required text will delineate properties of medications specific to psychotropic class and mechanism of action, enabling students to synthesize foundational principals of psychopharmacology with prerequisite knowledge in differentiating genetic, neurological, biological, and medication-induced symptomology. Course content will also provide population-specific prescribing recommendations in regard to legal and ethical considerations, standards of practice and federal regulations for the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.
    Prerequisites: N 502  , N 503  , N 515PE  , N 512  , N 521  , N 522PE  , N 560  
  

  • N 560 - Advanced Practice Psych Nursing I

    3 Credits

    This course provides the student with knowledge of epidemiology, etiology, and differential diagnoses of common psychopathological disorders; and specific psychiatric-mental health assessment methods and tools to be used across the life span. Theoretical models for mental health psychiatric treatment planning and intervention are emphasized.
    Prerequisites: N 502  , N 503  , N 515PE  , N 512  , N 521  , 3P Exam
  

  • N 561 - Advanced Practice Psych Nursing I Preceptorship Experience

    3 Credits

    This course provides the APRN student with opportunities to practice and demonstrate primary assessment and diagnostic skills that serve as the basis for determining a plan of care for patients across the life span with psychiatric mental health needs.

    Individual and group therapies are explored as essential components of successful intervention. This course has 135 precepted clinical hours. 
    Prerequisites: N 559  
  

  • N 562 - Advanced Practice Psych Nursing II

    3 Credits

    This course builds on previous coursework, emphasizing creation of a plan of clinical management for children with a psychopathological disorder, based on DSM-5. Select disorders associated with childhood are included, as is emphasis on family dynamics
    Prerequisites: N 560  , N 561  
  

  • N 563 - Advanced Practice Psych Nursing II Preceptorship Experience

    3 Credits

    This course provides the APRN student with opportunities to practice and demonstrate primary assessment and diagnostic skills that serve as the basis for determining a plan of care for children with psychiatric mental health needs.

    This course has 135 precepted clinical hours. 
    Prerequisites: N 562  
  

  • N 564 - Advanced Practice Psych Nursing III

    3 Credits

    This didactic course will provide the student with knowledge of major psychiatric mental health conditions that occur in adults and older adults. Emphasis is placed on the effective and safe management of individuals and families with acute and chronic mental health disorders. Students will apply evidence-based knowledge, current clinical guidelines, and mental health assessment tools for the formulation of individualized and culturally competent care, and evaluation of the patient outcomes. Knowledge learned in this course will be validated during the preceptorship learning experience.
    Prerequisites: N 562  , N 563  
  

  • N 565 - Advanced Practice Psych Nursing III Preceptorship Experience

    3 Credits

    This supervised preceptorship experience provides the student with opportunities to practice and demonstrate advanced practice nursing knowledge learned in previous didactic courses, and continue to refine skills for assessing, diagnosing, managing, and preventing major psychiatric and mental health disorders that occur in adults and older adults. The emphasis is placed on working with adults and older adults with mental health care needs in primary care and acute mental health care settings. The student will function under the mentorship and guidance of course faculty and work in collaboration with preceptors.

    This course requires 135 precepted clinical hours.
    Prerequisites: N 564  
  

  • N 566 - Psych Specialty for Advanced Practice

    3 Credits

    This didactic course will provide the students with knowledge of substance use disorder with emphasis on the adolescent population, and implementation of a patient-centered plan of care involving the family. Students will apply evidence-based knowledge, current clinical guidelines and mental health assessment tools for the formulation of individualized and culturally competent care, and evaluation of the patient outcomes. Knowledge learned in this course. Will be validated during the preceptorship learning experience.
    Prerequisites: N 565  
  

  • N 567 - Psych Specialty for Advanced Practice Preceptorship Experience

    3 Credits

    This supervised preceptorship experience provides the student with opportunities to practice and demonstrate advanced practice nursing knowledge learned in previous didactic courses, and continue to refine skills for assessing, diagnosing, managing, and preventing major psychiatric and mental health disorders.  The emphasis is placed on working with adolescents experiencing substance misuse in a variety of settings. The student will function under the mentorship and guidance of course faculty and work in collaboration with preceptors.

    This course requires 90 precepted clinical hours.
    Prerequisites: N 566  
  

  • N 568 - Advanced Practice Psych Nursing IV

    3 Credits

    This didactic course will provide the student opportunities to thoroughly prepare to take the ANCC PMHNP certification examination, and to ready oneself for professional practice as a PMHNP.
    Prerequisites: N 566  and N 567  
  

  • N 569 - Advanced Practice Psych Nursing Integration IV Preceptorship Experience

    3 Credits

    This supervised preceptorship experience provides the student with opportunities to demonstrate synthesis of advanced practice nursing knowledge learned in previous didactic courses, and constructing full, synthesized plans of care for patients with mental health needs via assessing, diagnosing, managing, and preventing major psychiatric and mental health disorders. The student will function under the mentorship and guidance of course faculty and work in collaboration with preceptors.

    This course requires 135 precepted clinical hours.
    Prerequisites: N 568  
  

  • N 570PE - Infection Prevention and Control

    3 Credits

    Explores the roles and responsibilities of the infection prevention and control professional. Students develop infection control policies and procedures for dealing with internal infection and the influx of patients with communicable diseases. This course includes 45 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: BIO 501  
  

  • N 570PE-CBE - Infection Prevention and Control

    3 Credits

    Explores the roles and responsibilities of the infection prevention and control professional. Students develop infection control policies and procedures for dealing with internal infection and the influx of patients with communicable diseases. This course includes 45 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: BIO 501-CBE  
  

  • N 571PE - Design of Surveillance System

    3 Credits

    Enables students to design a surveillance plan and epidemiologic investigation using computerized tools and decision support systems. Topics such as baseline rates, notification systems, appropriate and feasible denominator data, key indicators, reportable pathogens, and communicable disease follow-up are discussed.

    This course requires 45 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 570PE  , EPI 500  
  

  • N 571PE-CBE - Design of Surveillance System

    3 Credits

    Enables students to design a surveillance plan and epidemiologic investigation using computerized tools and decision support systems. Topics such as baseline rates, notification systems, appropriate and feasible denominator data, key indicators, reportable pathogens, and communicable disease follow-up are discussed.

    This course requires 45 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 570PE-CBE  , EPI 500-CBE  
  

  • N 572PE - Collection and Interpretation of Surveillance Data

    3 Credits

    Students implement a surveillance and epidemiologic investigation, collecting and analyzing data. Techniques for examining, recording, and analyzing surveillance data are explored and applied in select scenarios. Infection rates, incidence and prevalence are investigated, as well as such topics as risk stratified rates and antibiotic resistance patterns. The statistical significance of data findings is calculated and analyzed. This course includes 45 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 570PE  , N 571PE  , EPI 500  
  

  • N 572PE-CBE - Collection and Interpretation of Surveillance Data

    3 Credits

    Students implement a surveillance and epidemiologic investigation, collecting and analyzing data. Techniques for examining, recording, and analyzing surveillance data are explored and applied in select scenarios. Infection rates, incidence and prevalence are investigated, as well as such topics as risk stratified rates and antibiotic resistance patterns. The statistical significance of data findings is calculated and analyzed. This course includes 45 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 570PE-CBE  , N 571PE-CBE  , EPI 500-CBE  
  

  • N 580 - Advanced Practice Nursing I

    3 Credits

    This course will provide the student with the competencies and knowledge to assess, diagnose, and manage common and uncomplicated acute and chronic health conditions experienced by adolescents, adults, and older adults in primary care settings. Emphasis is placed on the effective and safe management of patients via health promotion, disease prevention, assessment, diagnosis, pharmacological, and non-pharmacological interventions, and approaches. Conceptual models and theories will be applied to enhance the care plan and evaluate patient outcomes. Knowledge and skills learned in this course will be validated in the preceptorship learning experience.
    Prerequisites: N 502  , N 503  , N 515PE  , N 512  , N 521  , N 522PE  , 3P Exam
  

  • N 581 - Advanced Practice Nursing I Preceptorship Experience

    3 Credits

    This first supervised preceptorship experience is aimed to provide students with an opportunity to synthesize and apply advanced practice nursing skills in assessment, diagnosis, and management of care of adolescents, adults, and older adults with stable, chronic, and acute diseases in the primary care setting. Graduate students will function under the mentorship, guidance, and in collaboration with the preceptor. Graduate students build knowledge, competency, and skills within the APRN overarching competency areas: 1) scientific foundation, 2) leadership, 3) quality, 4) practice inquiry, 5) technology and information literacy, 6) policy, 7) health delivery system, 8) ethics, and 9) independent practice.

    This course requires 135 precepted clinical hours. 
    Prerequisites: N 580  
  

  • N 582 - Advanced Practice Nursing II

    3 Credits

    This course is a continuation of Advanced Practice Nursing I which examines and applies the needed knowledge, competencies, and skills in assessing, diagnosing, and managing more complex acute and chronic health problems experienced by adolescents, adults, and older adults in primary care settings. Emphasis is placed on health promotion, disease prevention, assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and pharmacological and non- pharmacological management concepts. Theories and conceptual models examined in this course are applied in the Advanced Practice Nursing II Preceptorship experience.
    Prerequisites: N 580  , N 581  
  

  • N 583 - Advanced Practice Nursing II Preceptorship Experience

    3 Credits

    This second supervised preceptorship experience is aimed to strengthen and apply advanced practice nursing skills and knowledge in assessing, diagnosing, and managing the care of adolescents, adults, and older adults with chronic, and acute diseases in the primary care setting.

    Graduate students begin to function more independently under the supervision of the preceptor. Graduate students continue to build knowledge, competency, and skills within the APRN overarching competency areas: 1) scientific foundation, 2) leadership, 3) quality, 4) practice inquiry, 5) technology and information literacy, 6) policy, 7) health delivery system, 8) ethics, and 9) independent practice.

    This course requires 135 precepted clinical hours. 
    Prerequisites: N 582  
  

  • N 584 - Complex Concepts of Aging

    3 Credits

    This course facilitates the attainment of knowledge, competencies, and skills in assessing, diagnosing, and managing the care of older adults. Healthcare conditions common to the elderly and advanced practice nursing interventions are examined. Also, aging changes and issues specific to the gerontological population are explored. Furthermore, health promotion, disease prevention, management of acute and chronic conditions, pharmacological, and non-pharmacological interventions are analyzed. Conceptual models and theories will be applied to enhance the care plan and evaluate Gerontological patient outcomes. Knowledge and skills learned in this course will be validated in the Complex Concepts of Aging preceptorship learning experience.
    Prerequisites: N 582  , N 583  
  

  • N 585 - Complex Concepts of Aging Preceptor Experience

    3 Credits

    This supervised preceptorship experience is aimed to strengthen and apply advanced practice nursing skills and knowledge in assessing, diagnosing, and managing the care of older adults in primary care settings. Graduate students will function under the mentorship, guidance, and in collaboration with the preceptor. Graduate students continue to build knowledge, competency, and skills within the APRN overarching competency areas: 1) scientific foundation, 2) leadership, 3) quality, 4) practice inquiry, 5) technology and information literacy, 6) policy, 7) health delivery system, 8) ethics, and 9) independent practice.

    This course requires 135 precepted clinical hours.
    Prerequisites: N 584  
  

  • N 588 - Maternal and Child Care

    3 Credits

    This course facilitates the attainment of knowledge, competencies, and skills in assessing, diagnosing, and managing normal pregnant women and common complications of pregnancy and postpartum, in addition to diagnosing and managing the well child from birth through adolescence. Acute and chronic conditions of the pediatric population will also be addressed. Emphasis is placed on the effective and safe management of these patients via advanced practice nursing, non-pharmacological and pharmacological approaches as well as health promotion and disease prevention. Conceptual models and theories will be applied to enhance the care plan and evaluate patient outcomes. Knowledge and skills learned in this course will be validated in the preceptorship learning experience.


    Prerequisites: N 582  , N 583  
  

  • N 589 - Maternal and Child Care Preceptorship Experience

    3 Credits

    This supervised preceptorship experience is aimed to strengthen and apply advanced practice nursing skills and knowledge in assessing, diagnosing, and managing the care of obstetric, gynecological, and pediatric patients from birth through adolescence in primary care settings.

    Graduate students will function under the mentorship, guidance, and in collaboration with the preceptor. Graduate students continue to build knowledge, competency, and skills within the APRN overarching competency areas: 1) scientific foundation, 2) leadership, 3) quality, 4) practice inquiry, 5) technology and information literacy, 6) policy, 7) health delivery system, 8) ethics, and 9) independent practice.

    This course requires 135 precepted clinical hours. 
    Prerequisites: N 588  
  

  • N 598 - Advanced Practice Nursing Integration

    3 Credits

    This course requires students to complete their Master of Science of Nursing graduate project proposal. The purpose of the graduate project is to design and plan an evidence- based quality improvement project in primary care settings that may impact individuals across the lifespan. The evidence-based quality improvement project will be formulated into a paper following the process and guidelines for dissemination and publication.
    Prerequisites: N 584  , N 585  or N 588  , N 589  
  

  • N 599 - Advanced Practice Nursing Integration Preceptorship Experience

    3 Credits

    This course is the last preceptorship experience in which students expand and apply their knowledge, competencies, and skills in assessing, diagnosing, and managing more complex acute and chronic health problems experienced by individuals across the lifespan in primary care settings.

    Graduate students in the preceptorship setting function more independently under preceptor supervision. Graduate students continue to build knowledge, competency, and skills within the APRN overarching competency areas: 1) scientific foundation, 2) leadership, 3) quality, 4) practice inquiry, 5) technology and information literacy, 6) policy, 7) health delivery system, 8) ethics, and 9) independent practice.

    This course requires 135 precepted clinical hours. 
    Prerequisites: N 598  
  

  • N 700PE - Leadership: Setting the Example

    3 Credits

    Sets the pace of the doctoral program and is focused on executive and educational leadership in a dynamic healthcare environment. Students explore contemporary leadership theories in the context of their own leadership styles, considering organizational culture, current health policies and governance complexities. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
  

  • N 702PE - Organizational Complexities of Higher Education

    3 Credits

    Focuses on the organizational structure of higher education, starting with the federal and state laws that govern academic institutions. Students explore the standards for national and regional accreditation, as well as those for specific health specialties. Students will also explore the nature of leadership roles in public and private academic institutions. This course includes a designated amount of practice experience activities. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 700PE  , N 725PE  , N 740PE  
  

  • N 705PE - Health Policy

    3 Credits

    This course focuses on the health policy process and strategies for nursing influence at the local, state, federal and global level. Topics include the structure, process and outcomes of health policy. Learners will examine the role of individuals, organizations and agencies. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 700PE  , N 725PE  , N 740PE  
  

  • N 710PE - Learner-Centered Curriculum Design and Learning Outcomes

    3 Credits

    Provides an analysis of historical, current, and futuristic trends of curriculum development in nursing education. Students explore practical applications of culturally sensitive curriculum design, guidelines for curriculum development, implementation, and the evaluation necessary for providing a sound basis of nursing care in the 21st- century global health environment. Identifies expectations of accrediting bodies. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 700PE  , N 725PE  , N 740PE  
  

  • N 712PE - Advanced Assessment in Education

    3 Credits

    Focuses on the role of the nurse leader in advanced assessment and evaluation of student performance and nursing curricula in the academic or institutional setting. Examines various methods of assessment, including systematic plans of curricular evaluation, formative and summative evaluations, and various tools that measure specific course and programmatic outcomes. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 765PE  
  

  • N 714PE - Role of Technology and Simulation in Nursing Education

    3 Credits

    Discusses the use of the Internet, WEB 2.0 tools and other online technologies used in the delivery of academic programs. Students will examine research on best practices in online learning. Investigates the pedagogy and methodology behind the use of simulation in nurse education. This course includes a designated amount of practice experience activities. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 765PE  
  

  • N 715PE - Quality Management Techniques

    3 Credits

    Learners reflect on current quality initiatives and build organizational plans that incorporate fundamentals of organizational change theory and theories of human behavior. This course focuses on the use of technology and data analytics to manage large scale initiatives. The focus is on the generation and analysis of meaningful use data during the project life cycle. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 765PE  
  

  • N 720PE - Healthcare Finance

    3 Credits

    Explores the complexity of healthcare finance including the influence of health policy with an emphasis on topics such as macro and microeconomics, accounting, fiscal responsibility, and healthcare reform initiatives. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 765PE  
  

  • N 725PE - Health Services Research

    3 Credits

    Builds upon foundational knowledge required to review and conduct research. Topics include problem and purpose proposals, significance of studies, background information, literature reviews, various study methods and designs, and implications for the profession. Students develop a plan for research in their area of practice, applying useful knowledge that can be applied in the student's current role. This course includes 30 hours of practice experiences.
    Prerequisites: N 700PE  , N 740PE  
  

  • N 735PE - Contemporary Use of Health Information Technology

    3 Credits

    Investigates how the use of health information technology informs key performance indicators that drive organizational change is identified and communicated effectively. Students use current health technology tools to monitor key organization, risk management and quality indicators. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 765PE  
  

  • N 740PE - Capstone Project I

    3 Credits

    This course provides the foundation for the DNP project. A topic of interest relevant to either executive or educational leadership is used to develop a purpose statement, problem statement, and a research question for the DNP project. Students complete an initial draft of key components of the DNP project proposal. This course includes 90 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 700PE  
  

  • N 742PE - Principles of Finance and Fund Development

    3 Credits

    Applies business and financial management principles for the development and use of economic resources to maximize the potential of a program or school. Students explore various staffing options, creative budgeting, and approaches to union/labor contracting. Students develop a better understanding of grant-funded opportunities to support faculty development, strengthen programs and enhance technologies. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 765PE  
  

  • N 751PE - Perspectives on Nursing Informatics

    3 Credits

    Provides students with a history of the evolution of nursing informatics by highlighting several major landmark events that influenced the introduction of technology and information management to the profession of nursing. Roles, competencies, and skills of Nurse Informaticists are explored within the context of theoretical approaches and metastructures. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
  

  • N 752PE - Application of Nursing Informatics in Clinical Practice

    3 Credits

    Prepares students to apply nursing informatics concepts to clinical practice. Strategies for managing issues that occur within and among healthcare systems will guide the operation of clinical informatics practice. Implementation and application of informatics in clinical practice will focus on patient safety, ethics, knowledge transfer, telehealth, and workflow issues. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 751PE  
  

  • N 753PE - Application of Nursing Informatics in Administration, Leadership, and Management

    3 Credits

    Focuses on the applications and implications of 21st information technology for nursing leadership and management. Use of electronic data to promote efficiencies, economics of scale, evidence-based practice and meaningful use will be examined. Systems that measure organizational performance, service quality, appropriateness of care delivery, and cost of services will be explored and analyzed. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 751PE  
  

  • N 754PE - Application of Nursing Informatics in Data Management and Analytics

    3 Credits

    Prepares students to analyze system-generated data using statistical techniques such as predictive modeling, neural pathways, knowledge graphs and decision trees to detect or predict trends in healthcare data. Students will gain knowledge of the potential for these predictive models to lower cost and improve the overall health of the population. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 751PE  , N 752PE  
  

  • N 755PE - Health Statistics

    3 Credits

    Prepares students to systematically apply strategic approaches for managing, analyzing, and presenting qualitative and quantitative healthcare data for evidence- based practice in nursing. Within the framework of scientific inquiry, students will develop the competencies needed to select and perform appropriate statistical techniques for describing phenomena, exploring relationships, and comparing groups. Introduces an overview of major concepts in statistics, including the distinction between parametric and nonparametric statistics, principles of measurement, and the interpretation of inferential statistical significance using contemporary analytic methods. This course includes 30 hours of practice learning experience hours.
    Prerequisites: N 725PE  
  

  • N 756PE - Application of Nursing Informatics in the Management of Population Health and Public Health Policies

    3 Credits

    Prepares students to apply analytic and epidemiologic techniques to evaluate health services and policies that impact the care and diverse populations. Students analyze epidemiological, biostatistical, environmental, and other appropriate scientific data related to population health. Emphasis is on identifying at-risk populations and risk factors that contribute to the prevalence of infectious and chronic disease states for the purpose of initiating public policies to prevent disease and promote health. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 700PE  , N 725PE  , N 740PE  
  

  • N 758PE - Advanced Statistics

    3 Credits

    Builds upon knowledge gained from previous doctoral courses, by having students apply selected advanced inferential and multivariate biostatistical procedures for analyzing healthcare data. Students are introduced to hypothesis testing using both parametric and nonparametric multivariate methods such as multiple regression, factor analysis, logistic regression, and multivariate analysis of variance and covariance. This course is taught using an applied approach where students evaluate the biostatistical techniques used in nursing research to provide evidence of effectiveness for healthcare practice or policy change. Emphasizes the interpretation and appraisal of data analysis to help students select appropriate statistical methods for their capstone projects. This course includes a designated amount of practice experience activities. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
    Prerequisites: N 755PE  
  

  • N 761PE - Strategic Leadership and Planning

    3 Credits

    This course focuses on organizational leadership and strategic planning theories to provide leadership and direction for the growth and success of a diverse healthcare organization, or academic institution. Topics include change management, strategy formulation, leadership development, and exploring the fundamentals of strategic planning through evaluation and implementation. This course includes 90 hours of practice experience activities.
  

  • N 765PE - Capstone Project II

    3 Credits

    This course focuses on completion of the proposal defense and the implementation of the DNP Project. Students must have Chair approved Sections One and Two of their DNP project before starting this course. Students complete proposal draft revisions for committee review and feedback, complete PPT in preparation for proposal defense, and complete a draft of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) application form for approval after a successful DNP project defense with the DNP Project committee. Goal for this course is: Completion of DNP project proposal defense. This course includes 90 hours of practice experience activities.*
    Prerequisites: N 700PE  , N 725PE  , N 740PE  
  

  • N 781PE - Interprofessional Collaborative Healthcare Practice

    3 Credits

    For the doctoral nursing student, this course offers an in-depth review of approaches for comprehension and application of the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice. The course offers an evidence-based approach to experiential learning opportunities to engage in interprofessional collaborative practice and gain interprofessional collaboration competence. Through this knowledge, the reader learns essential elements to lead the profession in modeling, mentoring, and leading by example. Once again, nursing is at the forefront of leading the change for positive healthcare outcomes. Nursing leaders and educators are charged with preparing nurses to assume methods of effective team leadership and in promoting the development interprofessional teams. Through this course, you will learn effective interprofessional collaborative skills, thereby creating successful collaborative experiences with healthcare colleagues to promote optimal patient outcomes. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
  

  • N 782PE - Entrepreneurship

    3 Credits

    This integrative course is designed to apply critical thinking skills in the identification and resolution of business problems with the focus on entrepreneurship. The course integrates the application of entrepreneurial theory in designing an entrepreneurial idea for implementation in healthcare to improve or change current practices and procedures; to grow an existing business or create a new business. This course includes 30 hours of practice experience activities.
  

  • NUR 300 - Professional Aspects of Nursing Practice

    3 Credits

    This course provides an understanding of the critical role nurses play in providing safe and quality care in health care delivery systems. The ethical, professional, and legal aspects of nursing practice are examined. Students will engage in contemporary issues and analyze the core competencies of professional nursing practice, while exploring strategies to model the professional nursing practice role.
    Prerequisites: Nursing Major, Junior standing (61 credits or more).
  

  • NUR 310 - Health Assessment

    3 Credits

    This course focuses on health assessment through the lifespan. Assessment is presented holistically with principles of health promotion and client education integrated alongside concepts related to wellness and communication. Clinical reasoning, patient and interprofessional communication, documentation, and physical assessment skills are at the core of this course.
    Prerequisites: Nursing Major, Junior standing (61 credits or more).
  

  • NUR 315 - Scholarly Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

    3 Credits

    This course provides a foundation for the evaluation and utilization of research and other sources of knowledge necessary to address patient needs and provide quality care. Emphasis is placed on the formulation of researchable clinical questions, and on the organization of information to develop thesis statements, as well as support ideas and arguments with evidence. Evidence-based practice models and the research process are examined. Scholarly writing and the role of the nurse as a researcher and a research consumer are stressed throughout the course.
    Prerequisites: Nursing major, Junior standing (61 credits or more).
  

  • NUR 320 - End of Life: Death, Dying and Bereavement

    3 Credits

    This course explores issues related to death, dying, grief, and loss. The content of the course draws from an interdisciplinary knowledge base and considers end of life issues throughout the life span. An overview of the psychological, medical, and social aspects of death, dying, and terminal illness is provided. The process of bereavement, ethical, spiritual, and moral issues related to death and terminal illness will be examined. Cross-cultural variation and types of death will also be considered.
    Prerequisites: ENG 110 , ENG 130 , Junior standing (61 credits or more).
    This course is open to non-nursing majors.
  

  • NUR 325 - Cultural Influences on Health, Illness and Health Care

    3 Credits

    This course examines the ways in which culture affects health, illness, and the delivery of health care. Discussions revolve around perceptions of health, disease, treatments, and the values associated with these factors. The need for cultural sensitivity in health care is stressed. Considerable emphasis is given to the history and theory behind cultural competence care, the domains of health, illness, healing, and the health concerns of specific populations. Students will become aware of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds.
    Prerequisites: ENG 110 , ENG 130 , Junior standing (61 credits or more), open to non-nursing majors.
  

  • NUR 330 - Nursing Leadership and Management

    3 Credits

    This course enables students to develop theoretical and practical knowledge of leadership and management that can be utilized in nursing practice. Students learn to apply leadership concepts, and skills by demonstrating appropriate delegation, oversight and accountability of care, teambuilding, communication, and collaborative strategies. Emphasis is placed on creating cultures of quality and safety in complex health care delivery systems.
    Prerequisites: Nursing Major, Junior standing (61 credits or more).
  

  • NUR 445 - Population and Community Health Nursing

    3 Credits

    This course provides a theoretical background for the study of community and population health nursing and is based on the synthesis of nursing theory and public health science. Emphasis is on health promotion, health maintenance and disease prevention among communities and populations. The course assists students to recognize and analyze the interrelationships between individuals, families, population groups, and communities in determining the health status of each. The impact of political, economic, social, environmental, and cultural concerns on the health of populations is examined.
    Prerequisites: Nursing major, and all 300-level nursing courses, or permission from the Academic Department.
  

  • NUR 490 - Nursing Capstone

    3 Credits

    The emphasis of this capstone course is on health promotion and disease prevention in the community. Students apply the knowledge and skills acquired in their nursing course work to design a health plan and interventions that consider determinants of health, available resources, and the range of activities that contribute to health and the prevention of illness and injury. The student is provided opportunities to apply technology and evidence-based strategies, integrate principles of leadership, collaboration, communication, and clinical reasoning to influence the health of a group or community.
    Prerequisites: Nursing major, completion of all 300-level nursing courses, or permission from the Academic Department.
  

  • SIM 405 - Professional Values

    3 Credits

    Explores nursing theories and principles that serve as guides for ethically sound behavior within a nursing context. Addresses the added complexities that technological advances bring to the healthcare field. Other topics include economic issues, patient self- determination ethics in research, diversity, and discrimination in healthcare.
  

  • SIM 410 - Healthcare Policy and Regulation

    3 Credits

    Focuses on nursing practice foundations including the influence of socio-cultural-political-economic and physical environments on health, healthcare delivery systems, and outcomes.
  

  • SIM 415 - Management and Leadership

    3 Credits

    This course introduces concepts of organizations and management theory as they relate to key issues in nursing management. Topics include delegation, conflict negotiation, standards of practice and professional responsibility.
  

  • SIM 421PE - Organizational and System Leadership

    3 Credits

    Provides the theoretical foundation for understanding organizational and systems leadership, quality improvement and safety within selected healthcare settings. Emphasis is placed on strategies for effective change management and communication in quality improvement and patient safety. Ethical, legal, and resource management concepts will be explored.
  

  • SIM 422 - Evidence-Based Practice

    3 Credits

    This course is a foundational research course designed to introduce students to the components of the nursing research process, with an emphasis on critiquing and applying current research for evidence-based practice.
  

  • SIM 432PE - Population Health

    3 Credits

    Provides an overview of concepts and theories related to community health nursing. Emphasis is on population focused practice, health promotion, health maintenance and risk reduction. Topics include core functions and essential services of public health, epidemiology concepts, community assessment, and interprofessional collaboration to meet client needs in community settings.
  

  • SIM 436 - Interprofessional Communication

    3 Credits

    This course introduces a structured critical thinking approach to achieving the Institute of Medicine Competencies, Critical Thinking Habits of the Mind and Critical Thinking Skills will guide students in critiquing nursing assessment, inter-disciplinary planning, and setting goals for patient health outcomes. The course offers suggestions for assessing the critical thinking abilities of patients and families to participate in care.
  

  • SIM 437PE - Baccalaureate Generalist

    3 Credits

    Provides students with integrated functional health assessment knowledge and practical applications of physical assessment. The integrated health assessment includes physical, social, cultural, psychological, and spiritual components across the lifespan.

    Emphasis will be placed on developing and using therapeutic communication skills. All students may submit a video recording of a complete head to toe assessment. A complete head to toe assessment is required for Tennessee residents.
  

  • SIM 440 - Collaboration for Improving Outcomes

    3 Credits

    This course covers current topics and trends in Nursing Care Management. This course will cover a wide array of topics including disease navigation and demand management. The course focuses on the nurse's role in a collaborative team approach utilizing both acute and community settings.
  

  • SIM 499 - Reflection of Practice Analysis

    3 Credits

    The capstone course reflects the nursing program outcomes and University principles of accountability, leadership, scholarship, and citizenship. This course is designed to synthesize and integrate the successful achievement of previous course objectives met during the program of study.

Philosophy

PHL-designated courses qualify as Humanities or Liberal Arts Electives.
  

  • PHL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy

    3 Credits

    This course is designed to introduce the student to philosophical investigation. Part one includes the origin, nature, and value of philosophy. Part two is an analysis of the problems of human nature, our universe, and the existence of God. Part three includes an introduction to the areas of metaphysics, theory of knowledge, ethics and political and social philosophy.
  

  • PHL 203 - Ethics

    3 Credits

    This course introduces ethics, exploring prominent ethical theories and philosophical questions that bear upon ethics. These theories will serve as a basis for analyzing contemporary ethical issues such as capital punishment, euthanasia, abortion, lying, sexual behaviors, bioethics, business and media ethics, and animal rights.
  

  • PHL 301 - World Religions

    3 Credits

    This course studies the major religions of the world including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Topics include the absolute, the world, human nature, the problems of humans, and the solution for humans; also, topics on the origin of religion, primal religion, and definitions of religion.
  

  • PHL 302 - Eastern Philosophy

    3 Credits

    This course introduces the philosophies of India, China, and Japan as well as a presentation and analysis of the major schools of philosophy, including Hinduism, Buddhism, the Confucian school, Taoism, and Zen Buddhism. Topics include finding one's true self, transformation, compassion, moral cultivation, sage hood and enlightenment.
  

  • PHL 305 - Political Philosophy

    3 Credits

    This course will address fundamental philosophical questions surrounding the legitimacy and effectiveness of government. Through the analysis of excerpts from classical and contemporary philosophical texts, students will explore a thematic approach to the concepts and theories outlined by well-known political philosophers. Topics of study include types of governments, individual rights and responsibilities, economic justice, social justice, and globalization.
  

  • PHL 309 - Understanding our Universe

    3 Credits

    This course introduces the major philosophical, theological, and scientific issues in cosmology as well as an overview of the evolution of man's view of the universe throughout the ages, with emphasis on the present worldview, the Big Bang universe. Topics include the creation, evolution, and future of the universe. Philosophical questions of free will and determinism, design or accident life and intelligence in the universe, God and the universe will be addressed.

Performing Arts

PFA-designated courses qualify as Humanities or Liberal Arts electives.
  

  • PFA 304 - Film: The Reel Experience

    3 Credits

    This course deals with the elements of film including the script, filming techniques, direction, acting, editing, art and set design, costume and makeup and historical development. Examples from various genres are viewed for analysis.
  

  • PFA 320 - Introduction to Theater

    3 Credits

    This course gives students an appreciation of the theater as a performing art throughout history. Students will examine the dramatic genre while developing an understanding of the components of production and performance. One component of the course will be the participation in actual phases of staging and production as well as attendance at a live performance.

Physics

PHY-designated courses qualify as Natural Science or Liberal Arts electives. All PHY courses may be used to fulfill the general education science elective requirement.
  

  • PHY 115 - Physics I

    3 Credits

    This is the first part of a two-semester course series that allows students to systematically study the physical forces that shape our universe. Students pay special attention to one-and-two dimensional motion, work and energy, momentum, the Law of Gravity, rotational dynamics, Laws of Thermodynamics, vibrations and waves, and sound. Lecture topics are reinforced through hands-on application of theory in a laboratory environment.
    Prerequisites: MAT 120 .
  

  • PHY 115L - Physics I Lab

    1 Credits

    This course is a laboratory for PHY 115  Physics. Emphasis is placed on laboratory experiences that enhance materials presented in PHY 115 . Upon completion, students should be able to apply the laboratory experiences to the concepts presented in PHY 115 .
    Prerequisites or Co-requisites: PHY 115 .
    Laboratory fee required.
  

  • PHY 116 - Physics II

    3 Credits

    This course is the second part of a two-semester sequence that helps students explore the basic tenets of physics. The focus of Physics II is on the dynamic aspects of the universe. Physics II continues with discussion about light, refraction, reflection, mirrors, and lenses, optic waves, and relativity, as well as quantum, atomic and nuclear physics.
    Prerequisites: PHY 115 .
  

  • PHY 116L - Physics II Lab

    1 Credits

    This course is a laboratory for PHY 116  Physics II. Emphasis is placed on laboratory experiences that enhance materials presented in PHY 116 . Upon completion, students should be able to apply the laboratory experiences to concepts presented in PHY 116 .
    Prerequisites or Co-requisites: PHY 116 .
    Laboratory fee required.

Political Science

PSC-designated courses qualify as Social Science or Liberal Arts electives.
  

  • PSC 101 - American National Government

    3 Credits

    This course introduces students to how the government is organized, structured, and operates in the United States. Key topics include the foundation and structure of the American government, the political process and the policymaking process, the identification of major domestic and foreign policy issues, basic rights guaranteed in the Constitution, civil liberties protections in the Bill of Rights, and the concept of civil rights throughout American history. At the culmination of this class, students will understand the important role they play in the American Government System. By being informed citizens, they hold in their hands the future of our democratic way of life. It is now their responsibility to go forward and use the power they possess to make a difference.

     
  

  • PSC 102 - State and Local Government

    3 Credits

    This course is an introduction to non-national governmental structure in the United States. It addresses not only state and municipal institutions, but also analyzes the relationship that exist within federalism. Emphasis is given to political processes, regional differences, and the role of the public.
  

  • PSC 201 - Comparative Government

    3 Credits

    This survey course focuses on a selection of major nation-states in the international arena, comparing their governmental institutions, policy decision-making processes, and political cultures. Each state is also examined for its historical background and prevailing contemporary issues of concern.
 

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