This course focuses on developing and enhancing the student's ability to be inquisitive scholars, engaged healthcare practitioners, and ethical leaders through the synthesis, integration, and evaluation of evidence to determine best practice that informs nursing practice at an advanced level. Students engage in meaningful and creative inquiry, critique health-related research, explore the ethical principles, and develop insights into the methodologic processes involved in conducting research and quality improvement activities.

This course analyzes leadership characteristics and their relationship with clinical excellence and data-driven, high-quality patient outcomes. Students interpret complex health issues, create evidence-informed interventions that aim to direct change and improve health outcomes and analyze the professional nurse's roles and responsibilities in a rapidly-changing, complex healthcare system.

In this project-based learning course students integrate design-thinking principles and human factors to examine the quality improvement process. Integrating direct client care experiences into the design process, students analyze existing healthcare inefficiencies that lead to poor health outcomes and create a needs-based plan that aims to improve related health outcomes for a specific population. Prerequisite: 512, 560. Corequisite: 526.

The focus of this course is the integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the adult-gerontology nurse practitioner in the provision of comprehensive and collaborative care for acute and critically ill individuals with selected conditions in patients ranging from young adults to older adults. Prerequisite: 610 or concurrent.

This course is designed for students in a non-clinical track in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program who do not plan to pursue an advanced practice nurse role (e.g. nurse practitioner, nurse anesthetist). This integrative course provides advanced pathophysiology, pharmacology and health assessment across the lifespan to enhance clinical competencies. Normal physiological changes are contrasted with those caused by disease.

This course offers continuing clinical experience and focuses on expanding upon and refining clinical decision-making skills in the management of and chronic health problems in persons from adolescence through older adulthood primary care settings. Health promotion and disease prevention strategies are incorporated; culturally sensitive care is emphasized. Prerequisites: 610, 612. May be repeated for credit.

This course offers continuing clinical experience and focuses on increasing independence in clinical decision-making skills and management of chronic health problems in persons from adolescence through older adulthood in primary care settings. Health promotion and disease prevention strategies are incorporated; culturally sensitive care is emphasized. Prerequisite: 615. May be repeated for credit.

This course offers continuing clinical experience and focuses on expanding upon and refining clinical decision-making skills in the management of acute, emergent, and chronic health problems in persons from adolescence through older adulthood in acute care settings. Health promotion and disease prevention strategies are incorporated; culturally sensitive care is emphasized. Preequisites: 540, 541.

This course offers continuing clinical experience and focuses on expanding upon and refining clinical decision-making skills in the management of acute, emergent, and chronic health problems in persons from adolescence through older adulthood in acute care settings. Health promotion and disease prevention strategies are incorporated; culturally sensitive care is emphasized. Preequisites: 618.

This course continues the integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the adult-gerontology nurse practitioner in the provision of comprehensive and collaborative care for acute and critically ill individuals with selected conditions. Throughout the course, concepts of safety, leadership skills, knowledge of health care systems, and interprofessional practice is emphasized as the individual develops beginning competency in the role. Prerequisite: 613.