CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES IN NURSING

NURSING 601

Focuses on developing advanced practice competencies in health assessment as relevant to a selected specialty and practice setting. Become grounded in the theoretical perspectives, empirical documentation, and practice skills necessary for advanced biopsychosocial and physical assessment, critical diagnostic reasoning, clinical decision-making, and communication. Interactions of developmental, biopsychosocial, and cultural contexts resulting in health effects. Demonstrate capacity to provide a full spectrum of healthcare services including health promotion, disease prevention, health protection, anticipatory guidance, counseling, and disease management. Provides a foundation for the advanced practice nurse to evaluate and address the health of individuals.

NURSING 725

Explore specialized roles, emerging issues, and current priorities in advanced population health nursing. Analyze novel and emergent population health challenges within context, and consider the unique knowledge, skills, and philosophies that prepared nurses can bring to solution-seeking and interdisciplinary efforts to promote or safeguard population health.

NURSING 434

Builds on health and illness concepts by focusing on individuals, families, and communities recognizing their unique attributes. Concepts included: acid-base balance, cellular regulation, intracranial regulation, genomics, sexuality and reproduction, and an introduction to the organization of the community/public health system. Other core nursing concepts are revisited as they apply to the community as client or in complex care situations. The nursing process frames learning activities that foster understanding the nursing role in providing evidence-based care to individuals, families across the lifespan, and to communities experiencing related health and illness concerns in collaboration with an interprofessional team.

NURSING 443

Learn about complex health or health alterations and their management in regard to sexuality, reproduction, protection and movement, cognitive function, and maladaptive behavior. Emphasizes the nurse's role in management of complex health alterations within the health system, the community, and for transitions to home. The nursing process will frame learning activities that foster understanding the nursing role in providing evidence-based care to individuals, families, and communities experiencing related health and illness concerns in collaboration with an interprofessional team.

NURSING 314

Focuses on the role of the baccalaureate generalist nurse in health promotion and disease prevention across the lifespan. Learn about factors that impact health of individuals and families. Active learning is emphasized through applying the nursing process to concepts such as health determinants, health education, self- management, and innate psychological needs related to well-being.