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NursingCredits

This course emphasizes analysis of teaching learning pedagogies in the context of nursing education. Learners will be prepared to integrate nursing science into the practice of teaching with emphasis on individual, family, and societal health. Focusing on the importance of belonging in the diversity, equity, and inclusion in one's philosophy of nursing education, teaching style, and approaches to learner activities.

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Health Science
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This course is designed to develop learners' understanding of evidence-based and empirical curricular design, development, and management. Analyzing major models, strategies, and techniques for conducting academic and healthcare staff assessments of diverse learners with equitable and inclusive approaches. Practical application of teaching and assessment procedures that lead to reliable, meaningful, and valid evaluations.

Prerequisites:
NURS 685
Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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This course will incorporate technology within multiple settings to provide culturally responsive teaching, student learning, and evaluation methods. Best practices of distance learning, use of the internet, simulation, innovation, and integrating computer and other technologies into nursing education will be addressed. This course explores how technology is used effectively to facilitate, support, and evaluate student learning. Requires entry into the program.

Prerequisites:
NURS 686
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Health Science
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This course emphasizes the implementation of effective, innovative learner-centered pedagogies in direct care practice. Learners will facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion through professional teaching practice. Simulations, field experiences, and seminar discussions will prepare learners to teach nursing in a variety of settings. Includes 180 practice experience hours with (a) mentor(s).

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Health Science
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This course focuses on the role of advanced practice nurses in organizational structure, policy, and finance to engage in independent and productive interprofessional practice. This includes strategic planning, policy development, collaboration, and evaluation to improve outcomes for healthcare delivery systems with a focus on interprofessional leadership, economic principles, and technological innovation within a culturally diverse and inclusive lens.

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Health Science
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Students will integrate their technology-related background with the practical application of scientific and professional knowledge, behavior, and skills. Students will employ health advocacy strategies, principles of quality improvement, healthcare policy knowledge, and cost-effectiveness as part of an inter-professional team to analyze data and develop a strategy to impact practice improvements in order to increase the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery, improve satisfaction, or manage health-related costs.

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Health Science
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This elective course provides a clinical learning opportunities for the application of theory and evidence-based knowledge in clinical practice in diverse populations. Students will engage in experiences to enhance the development of their assessment and diagnostic advanced practice nursing skills.

This course prepares advanced practice nurses with the knowledge and skills necessary to lead and mentor other nurses and health care workers to promote safe, quality health care in a variety of settings and within a variety of roles.

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Health Science
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This course focuses on the knowledge and skills related to information systems and patient care technology that prepare the DNP graduate to manage individual and aggregate level information and assess and improve the effectiveness of nursing care.

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Health Science
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This course focuses on transformational leadership and leading in a culturally sensible environment while utilizing change strategies, measurement of outcomes, data driven decision-making, and the business realities of leading healthcare systems. Organizational and systems leadership skills are evaluated and tested.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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This course introduces concepts of teaching and precepting. This includes essential elements of effective teaching and learning practices. It also includes the examination of innovative teaching-learning pedagogies and creation of educational experiences that facilitate achievement of desired learner outcomes for academic nursing courses and clinical precepting APRN relationships.

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Health Science
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This doctoral-level course offers an in-depth exploration of human genetics and genomics to equip advanced practice nurses with the expertise necessary to assess genetic/genomic risk for individuals and families from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds, employ diagnostic testing, and deliver educational and therapeutic interventions within the scope of their practice. Ethical, legal, social, cultural, economic, and policy implications related to genetics/genomics will be critically examined. Moreover, the course will emphasize the integration of cutting-edge research and technology within the Advanced Practice Nursing (APRN) / Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) framework.

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Health Science
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Advanced nursing actions to facilitate health of individuals, families and society and intervention models used to support nursing practice are constructed, implemented, and critically evaluated. The science of health and illness experiences and evidence guiding nursing actions are appraised.

This clinical seminar focuses on collaboration of interprofessional teams and the roles of advanced practice nurses within this collaboration. Development of a framework for identifying, implementing, and evaluating a collaborative effort is emphasized.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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This seminar and practicum course focuses on program implementation and evaluation data collection. The DNP student works with a preceptor at the clinical site applying interprofessional team leadership and informatics skills related to evidence-based clinical program implementation and management.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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This course focuses on program evaluation and dissemination. The DNP student works with a preceptor to disseminate program outcomes and demonstrate the applicability of findings for the clinical setting and the profession.

Areas of Interest:
Health Science
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This course provides the opportunity to complete outcomes of clinical assessment, implementation, and evaluation of the DNP project.

This course provides Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students with the opportunity to focus or expand their scholarship or knowledge to support their future practice as a DNP. The students will work with a graduate nursing faculty member in defining the goals and creating a plan to achieve this.

DNP Workshop

Enrollment for direct advanced nursing practice in a precepted clinical setting for post-masters students in the DNP program who need additional practice hours to fulfill the 1000 clinical practice hour requirement. May be repeated. Prerequisite: admission to post-masters DNP program. Pass/No credit. 1 semester credit = 50 clinical hours.

PhilosophyCredits

Introduction to the nature of philosophy and specific, basic problems.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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This course considers historical and contemporary analyses of the mind in relation to the body and the connection of the mind-body problem to other issues concerning both religion and science.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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Traditional syllogistic logic and an introduction to the elements of modern symbolic logic.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Goal Area 4 - Mathematical/Logical Reasoning
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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This course explores what makes reasoning scientific as distinguished from non-scientific. Issues are inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, fallacies, hypothetico-deductive reasoning, falsifiability, and scientific knowledge.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Goal Area 4 - Mathematical/Logical Reasoning | Writing Intensive
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Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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To what extent do the differences among races and between genders represent biological differences, and to what extent are they constructed by society? Is racism best conceptualized as an additional burden to sexism or as one different in kind?

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 7A - Human Diversity | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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