ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN COMPLEX NURSING PRACTICE

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 446

Spend concentrated time in two settings focusing on the complex care of individuals across the lifespan, families, and communities. Demonstrate advanced ability to integrate professional nursing related theory and concepts as they develop and implement the plan of care. Mentoring by clinical nursing preceptors in the clinical setting and by School of Nursing faculty in simulation and seminar settings.

NURSING 323

Focuses on health and illness concepts emphasizing care to individuals and families across the lifespan. Gain a fundamental understanding of allostasis, oxygenation and hemostasis, and protection and movement. Gain knowledge of these concepts through exemplars that illustrate common health processes and/or alterations. Frames learning activities that foster understanding of the nursing role in providing care to individuals and families experiencing related health and illness concerns.

NURSING 436

Spend concentrated time in two settings focusing on care to individuals across the lifespan, families, and communities. The concept-based learning activities are aligned with those taught in the companion didactic courses and build on previous learning and experiences. Provide direct care from an evidenced-based perspective, at an increasingly independent level. The learning activities are guided by nursing preceptors in practice settings and by School of Nursing faculty in simulation and seminar settings.

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.