This course will analyze various issues related to providing advanced nursing care for older adult populations in any setting. While the issues may vary depending on participants' interest areas, topics such as end of life care, geriatric syndromes, polypharmacy, dementia and delirium, frailty, and quality of life will be typical. Specific focus on the required adult-gerontology advanced nursing practice care competencies will be emphasized.
The focus of this course is on the continued assessment, differential diagnosis, and management of complex acute and chronic health problems. Evidence based practice principles are integrated in order to provide comprehensive and collaborative primary care to persons from adolescence through older adulthood. Health promotion and disease prevention strategies are incorporated; culturally sensitive care is emphasized. Prerequisites: 610.
This course addresses the components of advanced history taking, physical examination, and health assessment across the life span within a holistic framework. Differentiation of normal from abnormal/dysfunctional findings is emphasized. Health promotion/protection/prevention is integrated. Differential diagnosis and clinical reasoning are introduced .Prerequisites: a basic course in physical assessment at the undergraduate level or equivalent.
A course designed to enhance knowledge and skills in advanced assessment. An increased emphasis on abnormal findings in the setting of acute illness is stressed, along with diagnostic testing used to accompany physical assessment. Laboratory and technology-based diagnostic testing, along with X-ray and imaging study interpretation, advanced EKG interpretation, and hemodynamic monitoring are areas for skill development. Prerequisite: 540.
A course, on a special topic in the discipline at the post-baccalaureate or master degree level, offered on the basis of need, interest, or time lines. May be repeated for credit. See registrar's office current class schedules Web page for specific semester description.
This clinical course provides students with the opportunity to integrate clinical and theoretical learning from previous nursing courses into clinical decision-making that facilitates interprofessional communication in the pursuit of quality health outcomes. Students incorporate the professional nursing role into their holistic nursing practice and adapt their care according to person-centered goals, evidence-informed interventions, diverse life experiences, and systemic restraints.
This course provides a foundation for conducting scholarly activities, and developing writing skills essential for advanced nursing roles. The course serves as a springboard for the integration of essential graduate level nursing concepts by assisting students to be professional and lifelong learners.
Students utilize skills lab to demonstrate the ability to perform fundamental nursing skills while integrating the components of the nursing process. Students practice person-centered assessments that form the foundation for holistic nursing practice. Must be taken concurrently with 522.
This course focuses on the examination of population health indicators and outcomes and their relationship with health care delivery systems and health care inequities. Students analyze and evaluate environmental health, epidemiology, behavioral health, health care regulations, emergency preparedness, infectious disease, public health policy, and health economics. Students utilize systems-thinking and create holistic nursing interventions that focus on population health. Prerequisites: 538, 539. Must be taken concurrently with 528.
This clinical course advances the student's ability to complete holistic, population-focused assessments and implement interventions that mitigate health risks in vulnerable populations, communities and groups. Students prioritize interventions that enhance the health of their community and strengthen partnerships, both inside and outside the conventional healthcare system.