Nursing

Nursing assistant training course that is online hybrid. Prepares student to take examination to become a certified nursing assistant (CNA) through the Minnesota Department of Health. Course consists of theory (online), lab and clinical (on campus).

Focuses on the basic principles of nutrition from a holistic nursing perspective to include the individual, community, and the environment. The role of nutrition in the promotion of health, disease prevention, and the disease process are explored.

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Explores the role of nurses as critical consumers of scientific evidence to facilitate health and wellness for individuals, populations, and the nursing profession. Learners will develop foundational appraisal skills to guide practice. Additional topics include: utilizing databases, scholarly writing principles, research methodology, statistical interpretation, and ethical research practices. The course culminates with learners writing a critical appraisal of literature regarding a health care topic with attention to our Benedictine values.

Introduces the nursing student to principles of evidence-based nursing practice, and the use of technology and informatics to seek and analyze knowledge that influences nursing practice. Students will explore how professional communication within the interdisciplinary healthcare team influences safety and patient/family/community health outcomes. Students will develop a deeper understanding of clinical judgment and its application to nursing practice.

Explores intermediate level concepts of professional nursing role development including culture, caregiving, patient education and care coordination for individuals and families. Nursing informatics principles are used to identify, define, manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice. Health literacy is explored in the context of patient education. This course introduces nursing students to the role of nurses in ambulatory care settings. This course is 3 credits (2.5 theory and 0.5 credits of ambulatory care clinical experience).

Introduces learners to the nursing profession and cultivates professional role development. Learners will develop a basic understanding of nursing history, ethics, patient-centered care, and spirituality.

Explores the role of the professional nurse as a member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team. Learners will practice communication and collaboration strategies that influence safety and health outcomes. Learners will develop a deeper understanding of clinical judgment and its application to nursing practice. Learners will analyze the roles technology and informatics have in the healthcare industry.

This course transitions students toward caring for family and community. Focused topics include examining determinants of health in terms of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors, impact of culture/inclusivity, family dynamics, and concept of caregiving.

Introduces foundational concepts to promote and protect health, prevent disease and injury, and improve the overall quality of life for all people. This is accomplished by examining the growth and development of individuals through each stage of the lifespan.

Expands understanding of care recipients by examining individual and social factors related to health and wellness. Social determinants of health will be explored to provide insights into vulnerable populations and the roles of the nurse. Learners will explore concepts central to psychosocial integrity including mood, affect, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief and loss, psychosis, caregiving, and family dynamics.

Focuses on the individual’s response to health and illness challenges across the lifespan. Concepts covered are metabolic changes, fluid and electrolytes, acid base balance, gas exchange, perfusion, tissue integrity, nutrition, elimination, infection, and safe medication administration. Students will apply principles of therapeutic communication, physical assessment, safe nursing skills and interventions utilizing current evidence-based practice and information technologies. This course is a total of 6 credits; 3 credits of classroom/ theory, 2 credits of skills/ simulation lab and 1 credit of clinical.

Focuses on the assessment and the health promotion of individuals, childbearing families and communities experiencing psychosocial health transitions. This course incorporates increasingly complex critical thinking and therapeutic communication skills, as well as care management for individuals experiencing stressful transitions across the lifespan. Nursing care that promotes and supports the emotional, mental, and social well –being of the client experiencing stressful events, as well as clients with acute and/or chronic mental illness will be examined. The health needs of families during the prepartum, intrapartum and postpartum periods will be explored. Concepts examined are grief and loss, mood and affect, anxiety, addictions, psychosis, interpersonal violence, sexuality and reproduction. This course is a total of 5.5 credits; 3.0 credits of classroom/ theory, 1.5 credits of clinical/simulation and 1 credit of lab.

Introduces foundational concepts and principles integral to the nursing process and the continuum of health that will be developed throughout the program. Learners will explore concepts of thermoregulation, pain, mobility, and safety.

Emphasizes the role of the nurse as a critical consumer of research findings for the purpose of improving nursing practice. Students explore the relationships between nursing research and evidence-based practice, as well as the impact that information technology has on nursing practice.

Develops and refines foundational concepts and principles integral to the nursing process and the continuum of health. Learners will explore concepts of perfusion, gas exchange, acid/base balance, nutrition, elimination, fluid and electrolyte balance, and metabolic processes.

Presents an overview of professional nursing practice, focusing on the roles and characteristics of the baccalaureate nurse that are requisite in a changing health care delivery system. Theory and philosophy of nursing will be emphasized and historical perspectives that have had an impact on the profession explored.

Introduces foundational concepts in human physiology, common deviations from normal body function, and clinical manifestations of altered physiologic balance, as well as complementary pharmacology related to pathophysiological concepts. Emphasis is on understanding and applying new knowledge in the analysis and treatment of common clinical presentations encountered by the registered nurse across the lifespan.

Applies the nursing process emphasizing clinical judgment to safely, effectively, and holistically care for clients across the lifespan by engaging in skills lab and simulations. Learners will develop and practice skills related to therapeutic communication, physical assessment, integrative approaches to care, medication administration, and other foundational nursing skills.

Applies the nursing process to provide care to clients across the lifespan who are acutely ill. Learners will develop skills in the lab and integrate these skills into their practice in simulation. Learners will develop and practice skills related to communication, focused assessments, medication administration, foundational nursing skills, and planning care for clients in simulation and the acute care clinical setting. Learners will care for clients in the acute care clinical setting.

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Independent study in nursing.

Explores holistic nursing leadership roles for the entry level baccalaureate nurse. Concepts in this course include leadership, healthcare quality from a systems perspective, health policy, and health care law. Topics include health care organizations and economics, and professional career management. This course examines health inequity including social determinants of health (e.g., socioeconomic status, educational level, geographic, race, gender, sexual orientation and others) as they relate to health policy and healthcare systems.

Transitions students to professional nurse through active classroom learning activities and simulation. Students will synthesize knowledge, skills, and attitudes from their classroom and clinical experiences in concurrent capstone coursework. Promotes socialization into professional nursing practice. Prepares for NCLEX-RN licensure exam.

Examines public health concepts from a local, national and global perspective. Application of public health principles will be applied to community-based nursing practice. Focused topics include examining disaster and bioterrorism preparation and response, by studying current trending global disease, how the environment impacts health, and comparing and contrasting nursing care for urban, rural, and underserved populations. Application of community assessment, social determinants of health, and public health frameworks will guide the creation and implementation of community health projects.

Focuses on the practice of holistic nursing for individuals and families experiencing multi-system illness. Complex concepts will be explored which include: cellular regulation, immunity/inflammation, clotting, cognition and intracranial regulation.

Facilitates the transition from student to professional nurse. The student will be immersed in clinical settings supervised by professional nurse preceptors. These experiences will develop clinical reasoning skills and promote socialization into the nursing profession. Students may be assigned to a variety of healthcare organizations and may care for diverse patient populations. Select students will experience international service learning integrated into their capstone placement.

Apply principles of public health and service-learning in a cultural immersion experience to meet the identified needs of vulnerable populations. Faculty consent required.

Provides an analysis of historical and current issues affecting professional nursing practice. Professional nursing in a changing health care delivery system is examined from a leadership perspective.

Examination of holistic nursing care across the lifespan for clients experiencing selected health alterations in diverse persons and populations grounded in evidence based practice.

Continuation of Lifespan I examining holistic nursing care across the lifespan for clients experiencing selected health alterations in diverse persons and populations grounded in evidence based practice.

Examination of holistic nursing care across the lifespan for clients experiencing selected health alterations in diverse persons and populations grounded in evidence based practice.

A continuation of Lifespan I, II, and III examining holistic nursing care across the lifespan for clients experiencing selected health alterations in diverse persons and populations grounded in evidence based practice.

A continuation of Lifespan I, II, III, and IV examining holistic nursing care across the lifespan for clients experiencing selected health alterations in diverse persons and populations grounded in evidence based practice.

Internship.

Applies public health principles to population-based practice at individual, community, and system levels. Students develop skills in community assessment, planning, and collaboration to promote, protect and preserve the public’s health. Public health is examined from local, national and global perspectives. This course meets the Minnesota Board of Nursing requirements for certification as a public health nurse.

Applies public health principles to nursing practice from a population-based individual, community and system level. This course examines public health from a local, national and global perspective. This course does not meet Minnesota Board of Nursing requirements for certification as a public health nurse. Certification requires the additional 1 credit clinical course, NSG 4571.

Practices assessment of communities' assets and liabilities in meeting the needs of vulnerable populations with the goal of improving their health. Successful completion of this clinical course, combined with NSG 4570 or public/community health theory based equivalent course, will meet the MN Board of Nursing requirements for certification as a public health nurse.

Builds on assessment information from the associate degree/diploma level of nursing education. The holistic health assessment needs of culturally diverse, rural and unique populations, are examined. Family assessment and environmental assessment are introduced.

Introduces the RN to BS student to the Nursing Portfolio guidelines and provides faculty guidance for completion of the two introductory portfolio objectives with supporting documentation. Addresses critical thinking, the development of a personal philosophy of nursing, career planning, and the use of self-reflection in portfolio narratives.

Introduces and applies the nursing process emphasizing clinical judgment to safely, effectively, and holistically care for clients across the lifespan by engaging in skills and simulations.

Applies the nursing process emphasizing clinical judgment to safely, effectively, and holistically care for clients across the lifespan by engaging in skills and simulations and through a faculty led acute care clinical.

Applies the nursing process emphasizing clinical judgment to safely, effectively, and holistically care for clients across the lifespan by engaging in skills and simulations and through a precepted ambulatory care clinical.

Applies the nursing process emphasizing clinical judgment to safely, effectively, and holistically care for clients in a rural health preceptor led clinical experience and a faculty led acute care clinical experience.

Applies the nursing process emphasizing clinical judgment with clients experiencing increasingly complex health alterations through simulations demonstrating safe, effective, and holistic care across the lifespan.

Synthesis of the nursing process, critical thinking, and clinical judgment to apply safe, effective, and holistic care through a precepted clinical immersion experience preparing for transition to professional nursing practice.

Provides nursing fundamentals in the care of patients experiencing critical care. The course requires synthesis of pathophysiologic, pharmacologic, and therapeutic concepts. Utilization of family theory, stress-adaptation, psychosocial concepts and legal/ethical issues are incorporated throughout. Corequisite: Any 4000 level Post Baccalaureate Nursing course

Investigation of topics related to professional nursing.

A seminar course presented in four modules incorporating the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) core competencies: roles and responsibilities, values and ethics, interprofessional communication, teams and teamwork.

Introduces foundational concepts and principles integral to the nursing process that will be further emphasized throughout the PBN program in preparation for nursing practice.

Introduces professional concepts, principles and practices essential to baccalaureate nursing.

Builds and expands on professional concepts, principles and practices essential to baccalaureate nursing introduced in Professional Nursing I.

Builds and expands on professional concepts, principles and practices essential to baccalaureate nursing introduced in prior professional nursing courses.

Introduces the concept of population-based practice and builds upon selected concepts from a public health context. Successful completion of this course, combined with the Population Based Care course, will meet the MN Board of Nursing requirements for certification as a public health nurse.

Applies community assessment and the delivery of population-based care in meeting the needs of the community. Through simulation, civic engagement in the community, and various learning activities, students gain competency in public health nursing practice. Successful completion of this clinical course, combined with the Community Theory course will meet the MN Board of Nursing requirements for certification as a public health nurse.

Builds and expands on professional concepts, principles and practices essential to baccalaureate nursing introduced in prior professional nursing courses.

Provides an opportunity for the Registered Nurse (RN) student to receive nursing credits for the major based on prior learning assessment using passing of the NCLEX- RN licensure exam and thus attainment of an RN license.

Maintains active student status, until the RN to BS Nursing Portfolio is complete and all graduation requirements have been met. A course fee will be attached to this course.

Provides an opportunity for the RN student to obtain nursing credits for the major based on prior RN experience, using a portfolio. Graduation requirements mandate the completion of 15 total credits for the nursing portfolio. (2 cr. NSG 4590, 13 cr. NSG 4998)

With faculty approval and advisement, self-directed student planning, implementation, evaluation and reporting of an independent learning experience focused on professional nursing.

A foundational and practical introduction to the concepts of health care informatics and technology as it supports health care delivery, education, research, and administration. Focus will include the role and impact of the nurse informatician.  Based on courses objectives, a minimum of 45 supervised practicum hours are required in collaboration with an appropriate agency and mentor.

Provides a framework for DNP-prepared nurses to play a leading role in health care transformation, as well as the tools to make those changes. Topics covered during the course include nursing science and theory, evidence-based practice, leadership and interprofessional collaboration, nursing informatics, scholarly writing to promote change, emerging DNP roles such as the nurse educator, and the development of the DNP scholarly project. Provides students with the foundation necessary to enter into the highest level of advanced practice nursing and develop that practice for the benefit of both their patients and the health of the country and world.

Provides foundational and advanced specialty knowledge for advanced clinical practice through development of core competencies in communication and clinical judgment.

Introduces advanced concepts in human physiology and common deviations from normal body function across the lifespan within the context of APRN clinical practice. Provides a scientific foundation in understanding the mechanism(s) of disease and related clinical manifestations, diagnostic testing, interventions, and evaluation to the disease process.

Builds on information from Pathophysiology I to present more complex concepts in human physiology and common deviations from normal body function across the lifespan within the context of APRN clinical practice. Emphasis is on developing clinical reasoning skills to understand how the disease process influences assessment, treatment, and evaluation.

Integrate knowledge required to design, implement, and evaluate an evidence-based clinical practice change and/or healthcare system change that will positively impact population health. Students critically review literature and appraise evidence related to a clinical problem of interest and perform a needs assessment and organizational analysis of a potential project site. Clinical Experience Description: Provides the opportunity for students to obtain 150 hours towards the AACN requirement of 1,000 post-Baccalaureate hours of mentored clinical and/or organizational leadership experience. Students will integrate the DNP role through a variety of clinical practice experiences that meet the AACN Essentials. Clinical experiences align to individual professional goals in areas of leadership, business, policy, information technology, education, population health, and DNP project preparation.

Integrates knowledge required to design, implement, and evaluate an evidence-based clinical practice change and/or healthcare system change that will positively impact population health. This course focuses on the development of project methodology, implementation, and evaluation plans. Students will apply principles of outcomes research while refining, developing, completing, and defending the DNP clinical project proposal. The successfully defended proposal is followed by IRB application. Implementation of the project begins following IRB approval. Clinical Experience Description: Provides an opportunity for students to obtain 150 hours towards the AACN requirement of 1,000 post-Baccalaureate hours of mentored clinical and/or organizational leadership experience. Students will integrate the DNP role through a variety of clinical practice experiences related to the AACN Essentials. Clinical experiences align to individual professional goals in areas of leadership, business, policy, information technology, education, population health, and DNP project preparation.

Focuses on continued implementation, evaluation, completion, and final defense of an evidence-based clinical practice change and/or healthcare system change to positively impact population health. Students complete implementation and evaluation, analyze data, organize findings, and disseminate results in manuscript or poster format and in a podium presentation at a departmental project symposium. Students work independently under the guidance of a faculty chair, project team member, and agency sponsor to complete the final DNP project. Clinical Experience Description: Provides an opportunity for students to obtain 150 hours towards the AACN requirement of 1,000 post-Baccalaureate hours of mentored clinical and/or organizational leadership experience. Students will integrate the DNP role through a variety of clinical and/or organizational leadership experiences related to AACN Essentials. Clinical experiences align to individual professional goals in areas of leadership, business, policy, information technology, education, population health, and DNP project completion.

Prepares students with foundational skills and competencies for practice inquiry and the critical appraisal of evidence to improve health quality, safety, and outcomes. Emphasizes the essential elements of evidence-based practice, including formatting clinical questions in advanced practice nursing roles, searching and appraising evidence, integrating evidence into practice, and evaluating outcomes. Includes applying current theoretical models and research to clinical practice problems.

Advanced physical, psychological, social, and developmental skills necessary for advanced nursing practice with patients across the lifespan. Provides foundational principles and techniques of data collection, communication, and physical examination.

Further develops advanced physical, psychological, social, and developmental skills necessary for advanced nursing practice with patients across the lifespan. Emphasizes principles and techniques of data collection, communication, and physical examination.

Implements the role of the primary care nurse practitioner in the promotion and management of women’s reproductive health across the lifespan. Covers well woman care including healthy pregnancy, lactation, pre-natal and post-natal care, and menopause along with frequently encountered problems in reproductive health care.

Focuses on knowledge and skill development in health promotion, disease prevention, assessment, and pharmacological management of older adults. Implementation of theory and evidence-based assessment techniques to promote health promotion in older adults. Non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic interventions based on principles of geriatric pharmacotherapy are applied in the management of older adults.

Designed for BS-DNP or Post-Master's DNP students who have completed all other requirements for their degree program but did not complete the DNP clinical project within the expected time frame. If no other clinical project course registration, these students must register for continuing clinical project enrollment each semester until project completion. The fee for continuing clinical project enrollment equals the tuition for one graduate semester credit.

Explores the role of the Advanced Practice Nurse in the delivery of quality improvement initiatives in health care settings. Examines the fundamental concepts of quality improvement (QI) and the impact QI has on the quality and safety of health care systems and patient outcomes. Explores methods, models, and tools used to evaluate practice variation and minimize risk of harm. Enhance health outcomes relative to quality measures for diverse populations relative to ethical considerations through interdisciplinary collaboration.

International service learning elective course for graduate nursing. Web-enhanced course with required on-campus meeting and 60 clinical hours. Emphasis on family, pediatric, and women's healthcare in a selected developing country. Course culminates in a health care mission trip to a third-world site. Students prepare by participating in online learning modules and discussions, course projects, and on-campus class meetings.

An introduction to the concepts of health care informatics. Explores the use of information technology applications used by health care professionals to support health in clinical practice, education, research, and administration.

Focuses on evaluating health programs including the activities, characteristics, and outcomes used to draw conclusions about health programs. Students develop skills in health program planning and evaluation through discussion and analysis of literature and development of a health program evaluation plan.

Explores the diagnostic criteria and treatment modalities for major categories of psychiatric illness. Articulates and develops the content areas and competencies necessary for entry-level, advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nursing, including psychiatric interviewing, DSM-5 differential diagnosis, and comprehensive psychiatric assessment and holistic management of individual, adult clients with acute and chronic psychiatric disorders and/or common mental health problems.

Develops the competencies and clinical skills necessary for entry-level, advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nursing, including psychiatric interviewing, DSM-5 differential diagnosis, and comprehensive psychiatric assessment and holistic management of individual, adult clients with acute and chronic psychiatric disorders and/or common mental health problems. Develops additional competencies in mental health promotion/ disease prevention and psychoeducation, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacologic treatment. 135 clinical hours.

Explores the diagnostic criteria and treatment modalities for major categories of psychiatric illness related to children and adolescents. Cultivates and develops the content areas and competencies necessary for entry-level, advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nursing, including interviewing psychiatric patients and their families, DSM-5 diagnosis, comprehensive psychiatric assessment, and holistic management of patients and their families.

Focuses on the development of skills necessary for holistic management of common psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. Provides practice in viewing the [child/adolescent] patient and their illness(es) within the context of their family system and encourages utilization of basic family therapy modalities which can be employed as non-pharmacologic, holistic treatment of the Child and/or adolescent. Emphasizes psychiatric evaluation using DSM 5 criteria and comprehensive care based on pathophysiologic, psychotherapeutic, spiritual, and developmental data. Includes psychoeducation as well as psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacologic approaches. Traditional and non-traditional community practice sites are used. 240 clinical hours.

Further develops the role of the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) as a holistic, direct provider of primary mental health care to psychiatric clients and their families across the lifespan. Focuses on content and processes necessary for the transition to independent practice including the requisite competencies, licensing and certification as an advanced practice provider, prescriptive authority, and adherence to mental health statutes and the profession’s code of ethics and standards of care.

Implements the role of psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner as a direct provider of primary mental health care to psychiatric clients and their families across the lifespan. Role components include integration of medical, nursing, and psychiatric interventions into a holistic plan of care; implementation of intervention strategies for at risk populations; and utilization of outcomes research in the delivery of primary mental health care including comprehensive psychiatric assessment, DSM-5 diagnosis, case formulation, medication management, laboratory monitoring, individual and/or group psychotherapy, and overall case management. 180 clinical hours.

A critical investigation of concepts, middle range theories, and family theories used in health promotion and disease prevention by advanced practice nurses to achieve improved health outcomes with clients and families.

Explores the role of the DNP prepared APRN in health policy. Foundational knowledge in systems of health care delivery, finance, regulation, and population health support the underpinnings of health care policy and are incorporated. Leadership in healthcare policy design, implementation, analysis and advocacy at various levels are addressed. Social justice and equity in healthcare are central tenets of the course.

Explore policies, laws, regulations, and ethical principles related to advanced practice nursing, population health, and patient care. Develop leadership competencies via practical exercises designed to teach students how to influence and impact social reform and policy change through advocacy.

Develops more extensive knowledge and skills related to health promotion, clinical decision making, and management of health problems for frail, medically complex, older adults. Examines environments of care for older adults. Explores the transition to nurse practitioner practice and nurse practitioner certification.

Develops more extensive competencies and clinical skills necessary for nurse practitioner application of health promotion interventions, disease prevention, and clinical decision making for frail, medically complex, older adults in a variety of care settings. 180 clinical hours.

Integrates organizational and management theories within the context of change management processes and applies them to the delivery of nursing services in a variety of settings and systems. Analyzes the role of the advanced practice nurse at various levels of management and emphasizes the requisite core abilities of the DNP-prepared APRN. Investigates factors that affect dynamic changes in the health care system including delivery of nursing care.

Focuses on knowledge and skills necessary for prevention, diagnosis, and management of acute and chronic illnesses in adolescents, adults, older adults, and their families. Addresses underlying pathophysiologic and psychosocial basis for occurrence and detection with emphasis on management of common acute and chronic illnesses.

Introduces theories, concepts, models, ethics, and the practice and professional issues relevant to the psychiatric nurse practitioner’s role in the care of persons/populations at risk for mental illness. Emphasizes the foundations of the discipline, including developmental psychology, therapeutic use of self, cultural competence, and individual and group psychotherapeutic models and interventions drawn from neurobiological, interpersonal, developmental, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and other evidence-based approaches to the care of persons with mental health problems.

Practicum course that develops the competencies and clinical expertise necessary for nurse practitioner application of prevention and management skills for acute and chronic illnesses in adolescents, adults, older adults, and their families. 180 clinical hours.

Focuses on knowledge and skills necessary for prevention and management of common acute and chronic illnesses in infants to young adults. Addresses aspects of assessment, diagnosis, management, and evaluation of outcomes derived from pathophysiologic, psychosocial, spiritual, and developmental data.

Develops the competencies and clinical expertise necessary for nurse practitioner application of prevention and management skills for acute and chronic illnesses in infants to young adults. 180 clinical hours.

Focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, and clinical decision making for adults/ older adults and their families, who are living with chronic/ complex illness. Explores the business and quality management of independent nurse practitioner practice.

Practicum course that develops the competencies and clinical skills necessary for nurse practitioner application of health promotion interventions, disease prevention, and clinical decision making for adults/older adults and their families, who are living the chronic/complex illness. 180 clinical hours.

Focuses on rural health emergent/ urgent clinical care. Develops knowledge and skills necessary for prevention and management of urgent, emergent healthcare issues of persons residing in rural regions. Clinical immersion in rural settings consistent with APRN role and population foci. Addresses knowledge and skills necessary to perform primary care procedures.

Focuses on the clinical application of advanced pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics across the lifespan for common disease conditions encountered in primary and acute care settings. Uses a body systems approach and includes principles of altered pharmacodynamics. Explores principles of pharmacotherapeutics used by advanced practice nurses, including pharmacodynamics, patient assessment, and decision-making processes for appropriate drug use, monitoring, follow up, and patient education.

Further focuses on the clinical application of advanced pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics across the lifespan for common disease conditions encountered in primary and acute care settings. Uses a body systems approach and includes principles of altered pharmacodynamics. Explores principles of pharmacotherapeutics used by advanced practice nurses, including pharmacodynamics, patient assessment, and decision-making processes for appropriate drug use, monitoring, follow up, and patient education.

Introduces concepts related to epidemiology and population health relevant to advanced nursing practice. Explores population-based health care principles of prevention, health maintenance and health promotion.

Provides an overview of biostatistical methods used by clinical practitioners to enhance the quality of healthcare practice. Focus is on common study designs in research used in evidence-based practice. Students will demonstrate an understanding of statistical principles, their use in assessing published practice evidence. Students will also gain knowledge on how to apply descriptive and inferential statistics to explore, analyze and disseminate health data.

Focuses on the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmaco-therapeutics of psychotropic medications used across the lifespan. Develops an evidence-based foundation for selecting psychopharmacological agent(s) as related to individual patient factors. Investigates the art of prescribing through emphasis on practical issues such as starting, stopping, and cross-tapering medications; monitoring medications and their potential adverse effects; and providing the psychoeducation necessary for successful pharmacological management. Builds a foundation for safe, successful, collaborative, prescriptive practice for psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners.

Emphasis on the role of the primary care nurse practitioner in screening, assessing, diagnosing, and managing patients with common, uncomplicated psychiatric disorders, such as mood, anxiety, neurodevelopmental, neurocognitive, and substance use disorders. Collaborate with psychiatry providers in the management of more complex psychiatric disorders. Develops the knowledge and skills necessary to care for primary care patients services experiencing deviations in mental health across the lifespan.

Focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, and clinical decision making for adults/ older adults and their families, who are living with chronic/ complex illness. Explores the business and quality management of independent nurse practitioner practice.

Focuses on the scope and standards of practice for the AGACNP role in multiple complex environments of care. Introduces principles of diagnostic and treatment modalities, including evidence-based practices, pharmacological management, fluid replacement, and clinical procedures. One lab day on campus required.

Focuses on the scope and standards of practice for the AGACNP role in multiple complex environments of care. Introduces principles of diagnostic and treatment modalities.

Focuses on competency in advanced pathophysiology, assessment, diagnosis, and management of acute, complex chronic illnesses or injury from the young adult to the frail elderly. Emphasis is placed on evidence-based guidelines, critical thinking, prioritization, and care coordination.

Focuses on competency in advanced pathophysiology, assessment, diagnosis, and management of acute, critical, and/or complex chronic illnesses or injury from the young adult to the frail elder who may be physiologically unstable and highly vulnerable for complication. Emphasis is placed on collaborative intra and interprofessional relationships to promote optimal outcomes. To include simulated procedures.

Focuses on competency in advanced pathophysiology, assessment, diagnosis, and management of acute, and critical illnesses or injury in the young adult to the frail elder who is physiologically unstable and technologically dependent with comorbid complication(s). Emphasis is placed on care that is directed to the highest acuity of the disease states encountered in acute and critical settings. Development of comprehensive, collaborative management plans is emphasized including performance of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

Develops competencies and clinical expertise necessary for nurse practitioner application in the management of acute and complex chronic illnesses or injury from the young adult to the frail elderly.

Practicum course that develops advanced competencies and clinical expertise necessary for nurse practitioner application in the management of acute, critical, and/or complex chronic illnesses or injury from the young adult to the frail elder who may be physiologically unstable and highly vulnerable for complication.

Develops superior-level competencies and clinical expertise necessary for nurse practitioner application in the management of acute, and critical illnesses or injury in the young adult to the frail elder who is physiologically unstable and technologically dependent with comorbid complication(s). Emphasis is placed on care that is directed to the highest acuity of the disease states encountered in acute and critical settings. Develops comprehensive, collaborative management plans is emphasized including performance of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Includes simulated procedures.

Topics in Nursing.

With faculty guidance, students develop objectives and implement protocol for independent work related to the practice of advanced nursing.