Professionalism in Nursing Practice focuses on professional attributes, care concepts for individuals and communities, and healthcare system foundations for beginning nursing practice.
Introduces holistic, patient-centered nursing care for individuals and families across the lifespan, focusing on clinical judgment, health data analysis, and interprofessional collaboration for common health conditions.
Students noted that exam questions were not always clearly explained during lectures, requiring them to rely on personal notes and recordings to verify what was actually taught.
Foundations of Nursing Practice: Experiential Learning II builds on psychomotor and assessment skills for direct care, developing clinical judgment and communication in simulated and clinical settings.
Perinatal nursing covering reproductive health, antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn care for low- and high-risk populations, emphasizing nursing process and clinical judgment.
Advanced Experiential Learning I provides nursing care for individuals, families, and communities from an evidence-based perspective, developing clinical judgment through the nursing process and reflection.
Advanced Experiential Learning II provides evidenced-based nursing care for individuals, families, and communities while advancing clinical judgment through the nursing process.
Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice develops skills in using evidence to improve nursing practice, evaluating evidence quality, integrating it into care, and understanding the research process to impact client outcomes.
Advances professional nursing leadership in healthcare settings, focusing on ethics, health equity, emergency preparedness, cost-effectiveness, and care coordination.
Covers theoretical and practical foundations for school health nursing, including health promotion, epidemiology, evidence-based practice, ethics, and the ecological model of health determinants.
Introduction to Alzheimer's and dementias focusing on community supports. Includes service-learning with local dementia-friendly groups to strengthen caregiver supports.
Advanced Health Assessment develops advanced practice competencies in health assessment for a selected specialty, covering biopsychosocial assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and clinical decision-making.
A nursing honors seminar introducing research principles, methods, ethics, and evaluation strategies to support evidence-based practice and mentored research projects.
Health Systems Leadership and Innovation Practicum II focuses on applying leadership and management skills to innovate programs and services within organizational or community health settings.
Advanced Health Systems Leadership and Innovation focuses on health innovation and leadership, integrating systems thinking to advance sustainable change in contemporary health settings.
Develops advanced practice competencies in population health through structured systems thinking, stakeholder engagement, and interdisciplinary leadership to address complex community issues.
Population Health Theory & Methods Seminar II explores systems thinking, complex problem-solving, interdisciplinary collaboration, and coalition-building to address wicked problems in population health.
Advances clinical decision-making knowledge for APNs, emphasizing complex and chronic health conditions alongside health maintenance within existing health problems.
A supervised clinical practicum for Advanced Practice Nursing focusing on developing and applying health promotion, assessment, and clinical management skills in chronic illness contexts.
Examines higher education curriculum foundations for healthcare professions, covering undergraduate and graduate program structures, development processes, and evaluation frameworks.
Graduate course on teaching and learning strategies for healthcare professionals in classroom and online settings, focusing on evidence-based methods and student-centered approaches.