Course Descriptions
Nursing (NURS)

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NURS 150: Introduction to Professional Nursing
2.00 Credits

Designed to assist freshman students in establishing their identity with the nursing profession. Lecture/discussion format addresses the following topics: history of nursing, nursing roles, current ideas and trends in nursing and the health care delivery system, ethics, and professionalism. Requires one clock hour of class per week. Open to students in other schools. Offered first semester.

NURS 240: Foundation of Professional Nursing Practice
3.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 251: Scientific Foundations of Nursing Practice
2.00 Credits

Introduction to the evolution of nursing science. Focuses on scientific concepts and frameworks underlying professional nursing practice. Considers ethics of nursing science, caring as a professional knowledge base, and nurse as inquirer and teacher. Emphasis on relationship between knowledge and practice through the use of appropriate technology. Requires two clock hours of class per week. Offered both semesters.

NURS 254: Communication for Health Care Professionals
3.00 Credits

Examines the role and impact of communication in health care. Uses a comprehensive approach which exposes students to ideas, emotional understandings, strategies, professional perspectives, and current technology that enhance effective communication in nursing practice. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Offered both semesters.

NURS 257: Nutrition and Health
2.00 Credits

Focuses on the physiological, social, economic, and life style factors that influence nutritional status, food choices, and specific life stage concerns. The purpose of this course is to provide the foundation for an understanding of the relationship of diet to physiological and pathophysiological functions. Requires two clock hours of class per week. Offered both semesters.

NURS 258: Health Assessment
3.00 Credits

Introduces students to professional nursing skills used in basic health assessment of an adult client and across the lifespan. Content will address developmental, psychosocial, environmental, and health promotion factors in nursing care. Requires two clock hours of class and three hours of laboratory per week. Offered first semester.

NURS 259: Health Promotion
2.00 Credits

Focuses on theories, concepts, and the appropriate technology related to health, and health promotion. Concentrates on factors that influence health, and strategies that enhance the care of individuals, communities, and the Nation through the promotion of healthy lifestyles and a healthy environment. Requires two clock hours of class per week. Open to non-majors. Offered both semesters.

NURS 272: Nursing Applications
3.00 Credits

Focuses on developing the ability to apply foundational and theoretical knowledge, appropriate technology, and professional nursing care in health maintenance and restoration across the life span. Considers ethical issues and spiritual concerns related to health. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Offered both semesters. Prerequisite or Concurrent: All 200-level nursing courses and 371.

NURS 275: Nursing Performance I
2.00 Credits

Provides opportunities for the development of professional nursing skills. Emphasis on appropriate technology for health protection and restoration of adult clients in subacute and acute settings. Requires forty-five hours of supervised clinical practice. Offered second semester. Prerequisite: BLS certification; prerequisite or concurrent: All 200-level nursing courses.

NURS 310: Pharmacology
3.00 Credits

Emphasis on the relationship of drugs and their physiological effects. Exploration of the nursing role in drug management, with consideration to social, economic, and technological changes. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Open to students in other schools, with permission of instructor. Offered second semester and summer sessions. Prerequisites: CHEM 101, 102; BIOL 223, 232, 233.

NURS 357: Nutrition for a Healthy Lifestyle
3.00 Credits

Directed Study.The course focuses on the physiologic, social, economic, and life style factors that influence nutritional status, food choices, and specific life stage concerns. The course provides the foundation for an understanding of the relationship of diet to physiological functions. It examines issues of consumerism, maintaining fitness for life, nutrition on the Internet, and current controversies in nutrition research. Open to non majors with advisor approval. Offered both semesters.

NURS 370: Community and Environmental Nursing
3.00 Credits

Uses a multisectoral approach to study contemporary environmental forces that impact on health promotion, protection, and restoration of communities. Introduces epidemiological and economic concepts and models. Attention to the involvement of the professional nurse in ethical issues and health policy focusing on vulnerable populations. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Offered both semesters.

NURS 371: Pathophysiology/Pharmacology I
4.00 Credits

Designed to assist students in applying knowledge from human anatomy and physiology to the study of adaptive and maladaptive responses to alterations in health. Requires four clock hours of class per week. Offered first semester and summer sessions. Open to students in other schools with permission of instructor. Prerequisites: BIOL 232, 233; Prerequisite or Concurrent: 252, 253.

NURS 373: Nursing with Midlife and Older Adults
3.00 Credits

Focuses on professional nursing principles for the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health for adults in midlife and later years. Studies contemporary health issues. Emphasis on developmental stages, health promotion practices, impact of illness, spiritual dimensions, and cultural diversity. Uses a multisectoral approach to study the socioeconomic, ethical, and legal issues impacting the health of midlife and older adults. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Offered both semesters. Prerequisites: All 200-level nursing courses; Prerequisite or Concurrent: 310, 371, 372.

NURS 374: Nursing with Adolescents and Young Adults
3.00 Credits

Focuses on the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health for adolescents and young adults. Emphasis on contemporary health issues and behavioral factors of persons in these developmental stages. Examines social, cultural, environmental, and spiritual influences. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Offered both semesters. Prerequisite: All 200-level nursing courses; Prerequisite or Concurrent: 310, 371, 372.

NURS 375: Mental Health Nursing Lecture
3.00 Credits

Focuses on the role of the professional nurse in the application of mental health principles for the maintenance and restoration of individuals and families experiencing limitations in psychosocial functioning. Self awareness, personal growth, sociocultural sensitivity, and professional development are vital components. Uses a multisectoral approach to address contemporary mental health issues and their sequelae. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Offered both semesters. Prerequisite or Concurrent: All 200-level nursing courses.

NURS 376: Adults in Health and Illness: Intermediate Clinical Applications
2.00 Credits

Provides opportunities for the implementation of professional nursing care to facilitate health protection and restoration of adolescent and adult clients in subacute and acute settings. Requires ninety hours of supervised clinical practice. Offered first semester and summer sessions. Prerequisites: All 200-level nursing courses, BLS certification; Prerequisite or Concurrent: 371,372.

NURS 377A: Nursing Performance IIIA
2.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 377B: Nursing Performance IIIB
2.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 378: Evidence-Based Care - Health Informatics
3.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 391: Concepts for Professional Nursing
3.00 Credits

Focuses on concepts of systems and adaptation as related to individuals, families, groups, and communities. Application to nursing process and nursing diagnosis. For R.N. students only. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Offered first semester.

NURS 401: Directed Study for Professional Practical
0.00 Credits

Focuses on improving critical thinking, problem-solving techniques in examining and resolving problems in clinical nursing. An NCLEX-RN review book is used to review content based on practice situations. Students will answer questions, participate in group discussions regarding questions, identify areas of knowledge which need strengthening, and determine strategies to overcome deficits. Requires one clock hour per week. Offered both semesters.

NURS 402: Health Promotion Applications
3.00 Credits

This course provides an opportunity for students to apply health promotion theory to a selected population and for service learning. The course uses a planning framework for designing a health promotion program which will be implemented with a target population. Students will meet as a group for approximately half of the semester, while other meetings will take place on-line. Program planning and implementation will be done in small groups. Implementation of a group project is required for successful completion of the course. The course is open to undergraduate students who have had a prior health promotion course and have obtained department permission.

NURS 403: Introduction to Nursing Research
3.00 Credits

Focuses on the research process, the role of research within the nursing profession, and the evaluation of research projects. Offered both semesters and summer sessions. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Prerequisites: MATH 114 or SOC 301.

NURS 420: Child and Adolescent Health and Illness Lecture
3.00 Credits

Focuses on application of nursing principles in promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health for infants, children, and their families. Studies of health issues and nursing concerns. Emphasis on developmental stages, family processes, health promotion practices, and social, cultural, and spiritual influences. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Offered first semester and summer sessions. Prerequisites: 310, 370, 371, 372; Prerequisite or Concurrent: 375.

NURS 422: Practicum: Community Health Nursing
2.00 Credits

Provides the opportunity to use the nursing process in the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health of populations at risk in the community. Requires ninety hours of supervised clinical practice. For R.N. students only. Offered both semesters. Prerequisite or concurrent: 370.

NURS 423: Women in Health and Illness Lecture
3.00 Credits

Focuses on the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health for women, their newborns, and families during childbearing years. Uses a multisectoral approach, with an emphasis on equitable distribution and appropriate technology, to relate physiological, environmental, cultural, and behavioral factors and issues impacting on the reproductive woman and childbearing. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Offered first semester and summer sessions. Prerequisites: 310, 370, 371, 372; Prerequisite or Concurrent: 375.

NURS 424: Management of Health Care Delivery
3.00 Credits

Focuses on concepts and skills that are needed to manage and coordinate health care through the use of appropriate technology, both human and material. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Offered both semesters. Prerequisites: All 300-level nursing courses.

NURS 425: Care of Patients with Complex Needs
3.00 Credits

Focuses on the maintenance and restoration of health of clients across the life span with complex bio-psycho-social needs. Provides a theoretical base, including advanced technology, to enable students to care for this population. Discusses ethical and spiritual considerations. Builds on content from previous courses, integrating nursing management of complex health problems. Requires three clock hours of class per week. Offered second semester. Prerequisites: 420, 423, 476 or 478.

NURS 426: Nursing Seminar and Practicum
4.00 Credits

Provides opportunities for a comprehensive clinical experience and seminar in promoting, maintaining, and restoring health of individuals, families, groups, and communities. Emphasis on strengthening collaboration between theory and practice to enhance professional competence. Opportunities provided for students to assume responsibility for personal and professional growth. Requires ninety hours of precepted clinical practice and thirty hours of seminar per semester. Offered second semester. Prerequisites: 420, 423, 476 or 478; Prerequisite or Concurrent: 424, 425, 479.

NURS 427: Seminar in Nursing Issues and Trends
1.00 Credits

Examines professional nursing practice in relation to industrial and developing countries' primary health goals and priorities through a global perspective. Emphasis on health advocacy skills to promote health and prevent disease. Includes contemporary practice, models, nursing informatics and related economic, cultural, legal, and ethical issues. Two hours of seminar per week. Offered both semesters. Prerequisites: All 300-level nursing courses.

NURS 448: Guided Study in Nursing
1.00 Credits

Provides opportunity for a student to explore in depth a selected nursing problem. Learning experiences may include practice, depending on the nature of the problem to be explored. Offered both semesters and summer sessions.

NURS 450: Guided Study in Nursing
2.00 Credits

Provides opportunity for a student to explore in depth a selected nursing problem. Learning experiences may include practice, depending on the nature of the problem to be explored. Offered both semesters and summer sessions.

NURS 452: Guided Study in Nursing
3.00 Credits

Provides opportunity for a student to explore in depth a selected nursing problem. Learning experiences may include practice, depending on the nature of the problem to be explored. Offered both semesters and summer sessions.

NURS 454: Guided Study in Nursing
4.00 Credits

Provides opportunity for a student to explore in depth a selected nursing problem. Learning experiences may include practice, depending on the nature of the problem to be explored. Offered both semesters and summer sessions.

NURS 460: Alternate Clinical Experience for R.N. Students (ACE)
4.00 Credits

An independent study option for qualified R.N. students. The ACE is an optional approach to meeting senior-level clinical objectives in 479, Nursing Performance V. Self-direction in learning is expected and emphasized. Offered both semesters and summer sessions.

NURS 476: Nursing Performance IVB
4.00 Credits

Builds on 379, Nursing Performance IIIb; provides further opportunities for implementation of professional nursing care to facilitate health promotion, protection, and restoration of individuals, groups, families, and communities. Requires 180 hours of clinical practice in community and mental health settings. Offered first semester. Prerequisites: 375, 379, 420, and 423, BLS certification; Prerequisite or Concurrent: 373, 374.

NURS 478A: Nursing Performance IV-A
2.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 478B: Nursing Performance IV-B
2.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 479: Nursing Performance V
3.00 Credits

Provides opportunities to manage health care of individuals, families, groups, and communities requiring health promotion, protection, and restoration. Requires 180 hours of supervised clinical practice. Offered second semester. Prerequisites: 476 or 478, BLS certification; prerequisite or concurrent: all 400-level courses.

NURS 501: Nursing Applications in Clinical Ethics
3.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 561: Aging: Holistic Perspectives on Health
3.00 Credits

Lecture. Utilizes a holistic approach to the study of the elderly person's health experience. Examines development in later years with major emphasis on health maintenance, physical changes, and common health problems. Open to non-concentrators. Department consent required.

NURS 567: Relationship Centered Caring
3.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 569: Spirituality and Care of the Sick
3.00 Credits

(3 clock hours per week) Explores the interface between spirituality and the practice of nursing. Examines spirituality according to a variety of theologies. Course content primarily derived from the Judeo-Christian tradition, emphasizing New Testament theology and spirituality. Includes historical perspective on Christianity and the healing arts, and contemporary theological and spiritual approaches to caregiving with persons experiencing physiological, emotional, or spiritual distress.

NURS 570: Substance Abuse and Health
3.00 Credits

Lecture. Focuses on the identification and management of the substance abusing and/or addicted client in the primary health care system. Examines core knowledge in substance abuse that has historically been and continues to be multidisciplinary in nature. Explores consumer and professional perceptions of current day practice. Open to nonconcentrators. Department consent required. Offered second semester.

NURS 608: Psychopharmacology
1.00 Credits

Lecture The focus of this seminar for the advanced practice psychiatric mental health nurse is the exploration of issues involved in prescribing medications and providing comprehensive mental health care. Topics that highlight the role of psychopharmacology within the present day community mental health delivery system will be covered. Department consent required.

NURS 610: Pharmacology for Advanced Nursing Practice
3.00 Credits

Lecture (3 clock hours per week) Examines advanced concepts in pharmacology for nurses preparing to be nurse practitioners/clinical specialists. Emphasis on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of selected drug agents commonly used in ambulatory and tertiary care settings. Presents selection, dosing, and monitoring of these drugs as well as the nursing implications and prescribing responsibilities. Permission of instructor required. Department consent required.

NURS 627: Health Care Policy Practicum
2.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 657: Advanced Health Assessment
3.00 Credits

Lecture/Laboratory (Lecture 1 clock hour; lab 4 clock hours per week) Focuses on advanced health assessment. Students guided in the acquisition and refinement of required knowledge, technical, and interpersonal skills required for advanced health assessment, including interviewing techniques, history taking, physical assessment, and diagnosis. Emphasizes physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual dimensions in assessment. Students focus on selected developmental groups: pediatrics, adult and geriatrics. Department consent required.

NURS 661: Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing
2.00 Credits

Lecture (2 clock hours per week) Focus: acquisition of knowledge/ skills necessary for utilization of models/theories in advanced practice. Emphasizes analytic processes basic to determining the adequacy of selected models/theories. Department consent required.

NURS 663: Health Care Policy, Organization, and Financing
3.00 Credits

Lecture (3 clock hours per week) Focuses on a critical examination of the delivery and financing of health care, from international, national, and state perspectives. Emphasis on the role of government, consumers, providers, payers, and processes influencing health care. Department consent required.

NURS 664: Epidemiology
3.00 Credits

This introductory course centers on basic epidemiological principles and methods related to public health, including principles of screening, calculation of risk, measures and comparisons of disease occurrences in populations, and causal inference and student designs (cohort, case-control, randomized clinical trials).

NURS 667: Blended Practicum 1: The Family in a Community
1.00 Credits

Practicum. (90 clock hours/semester) The Family in a Community is the first blended role clinical course for the program. This course engages students in population-based health care planning, implementation and evaluation of vulnerable families. Interdisciplinary collaboration and advocacy are role behaviors important in this blended sphere of influence. Student practica are in partner agencies with interdisciplinary teams that provide primary care for vulnerable families, e.g. Bread for the City, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Columbia Road Health Services. Department consent required.

NURS 668: Blended Practicum II: Empowering Women in Families/Communities
1.00 Credits

Practicum (1) (90 clock hors/semester) Empowering Women in Families/Communities, the second of three blended clinical practicum courses, focuses on the role of women in achieving family health status and the enhancement of the primary care seeking and health-promoting behaviors of vulnerable families. This practicum guides students in the planning and implementation of individual/population-based care and primary care programmatic strategies to enhance the health status of women and families. The development of linkages with family support agencies is an important activity in this sphere of influence. Student practica are in partner agencies that serve and provide linkages for vulnerable wome/families, e.g. Providence Hospital-Center for Life, N Street Village, Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care. Department consent required.

NURS 669: Blended Practicum III: Network, Organizations & Systems
2.00 Credits

Practicum. (90 clock hours/semester) Networks, Organizations and Systems, the third blended role clinical course for the program, addresses complex clinical decision-making, collaboration, negotiation, conflict resolution and policy and advanced practice role development on behalf of vulnerable families who seek primary care in agencies in underserved communities in the District of Columbia. Student practica are in networks, organizations and systems designed to serve vulnerable families in the District of Columbia. e.g. Washington Hospital Center, Whitman Walker, Upper Cordozo Clinic - Unity Health Care. Deparmtnet consent required.

NURS 672: C/PH CNS Practicum
2.00 Credits

Clinical (180 clinical hours/semester) This precepted practicum experience provides the opportunity to implement and evaluate the population-based health plan developed during NURS 674 and NURS 667 and to enact the community/public health clinical nurse specialist role.

NURS 674: Population-Based Health Care Management
1.00 Credits

Lecture (1 hour) Expands individual focus (Nurs 657) into population based management and introduces population-oriented preventive, therapeutic and rehabilitative models of care with high-risk, underserved people. Department consent required.

NURS 675: Population-Based Health Care Management Practicum
1.00 Credits

Practitum (Clinical 90 clock hours / semester) Clinical work, precepted by mentors in community settings, addresses population-based program development around the priorities of Healthy People, 2010. Department consent required.

NURS 676: Vulnerable Women/ Families in Communities
3.00 Credits

Planning, implementation and evaluation of cummunity/public health programs for high-risk, vulnerable people including mothers, children, and women provided under public and private/non-for-profit auspices. Department consent required.

NURS 677: Vulnerable Women/Families in Communities Practicum
2.00 Credits

Practicum (Clinical 180 clock hours /semester) Clinical work is in public health agencies, community health clinics, AIDS and infectious disease clinics, and other non-profit clinics that work to improve the health status of mothers, children and women. Department consent required.

NURS 678: Health Care Management: Addressing Disparities
3.00 Credits

Examines the management of contemporary community-based health care services within the context of eliminating health disparities. It addresses the knowledge, cultural sensitivity and management skill required to provide health services to underserved populations, especially children, the elderly, the chronically ill and disabled individuals and families.

NURS 679: Health Care Management: Addressing Dusparities Practicum
2.00 Credits

Practicum (Clinical 180 clock hours/semester) This practicum is carried out with preceptors in clinical partner agencies who have experience and expertise in managing services to under served persons and families. As part of their clinical experience, students implement the multi-faceted role of community/public health nurse specialist in community settings. Department consent required.

NURS 683: Educator: Community/Public Health Educator Practicum
1.00 Credits

Practicum (Clinical 90 clock hours / semester) This course places students with experienced teacher in AD/BSN program, staff development programs or community centers that provide health education/disease prevention to underserved people.

NURS 684: Global, Immigrant and Refuge Health
3.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 685: Global, Immigrant, and Refuge Health Practicum
2.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 686: Health Care Finance
3.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 687: Managing Health Information
1.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 698: Pathophysiology
3.00 Credits

Lecture (3 clock hours per week) Focuses on basic biological processes which can be altered by human disease. Emphasis on physiological alterations associated with pathological conditions and the clinical manifestations of the process. Offered first semester only. Department consent required.

NURS 701: Health Promotion Across the Life Span
2.00 Credits

Lecture (2 clock hours per week) Examines data, studies, and models which present and interpret health behavior and the disparities of health status. Reviews health promotion activities in managed care environments, workplaces and schools and discusses knowledge, values and decision which affect health-seeking behavior. Department consent required.

NURS 708: Research in Nursing: Methods and Outcomes
3.00 Credits

The focus of this course is the scientific method of problem-solving and decision making in clinical nursing practice. Students are guided in using research knowledge and methods to identify appropriate solutions/outcomes for clinical conditions. The course provides content foundational to the measurement of outcomes, and the relationship of outcome measurement to quality improvement.

NURS 729: Emerging Issues in Health
3.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 730: Evidence-Based Practices I
3.00 Credits

This course focuses upon the synthesis, critique, and application of evidence to support quality in clinical practice. Students will identify a clinical practice problem and articulate their ideas and plan for transforming a practice problem into answerable clinical research questions. Students will review, analyze, and synthesize clinical evidence using basic epidemiological, biostatistical, and scientific principles in support of the identified problem. Students will explore EBP models in order to integrate best evidence with patients¿ values and preferences and organizational culture. Students will be expected to have completed a systematic review of a body of research in support of the identified clinical problem by the end of the semester

NURS 731: Evidence-based Practices II
3.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 732: Applied Epidemiology
1.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 734: Leadership in Complex Health Care Systems
3.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 735: Perinatal Health
1.00 Credits

Lecture (1 clock hour per week) Provides the didactic content for primary care of pregnant and postpartum women and newborns. Emphasis on health care promotion and those alterations in health commonly encountered in the family practice setting. Department consent required.

NURS 736: Research on Family Health
3.00 Credits

Lecture (3 clock hours per week) Focuses on discussion and analysis of family health research. Addresses research exploring various family subgroups and family units. Discussion and analysis includes comparison of methodologic issues and relationship of study findings to sociocultural and political issues of family health and health care delivery to families. Department consent required.

NURS 737: Advanced practice-based Residency
3.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 741: Bio-Behavioral Psychiatric Nursing
3.00 Credits

Lecture (Seminar, 4 clock hours; clinical, 6 clock hours per week) Focuses on assessment, intervention, and prevention strategies for the major mental illnesses utilizing the DSM IV (APA, 1994) for diagnostic categories. Identifies psychobiological as well as behavioral theories. Required: a clinical practicum at NIMH. Department consent required.

NURS 742: Mental Health of the Individual
3.00 Credits

Lecture (Seminar, 2 hours; supervision, 2 hours; clinical, 6 hours) Focuses on prevention and in-depth intervention strategies for the individual client in the community. Explores, utilizes, and evaluates short-term dynamic, cognitive behavioral, and psychoeducational models. Clients are selected from a variety of settings, especially the underserved for clinical experience. Weekly supervision provided by faculty. Department consent required.

NURS 743: Mental Health of the Family
3.00 Credits

Lecture (Seminar, 2 hours; supervision, 2 hours; clinical, 6 hours) Focuses on prevention and intervention strategies for the family in the community. Explores short-term psychotherapy and psychoeducational models for families who are at risk for or who are experiencing dysfunction in the area of mental health. Alternative as well as traditional families selected from underserved populations. Weekly supervision provided by faculty. Department consent required.

NURS 746: Practicum in Community Mental Health I
1.00 Credits

Practicum (6 clock hours per week). The focus of this clinical course is experience in the various advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nursing roles. Students are also expected to case manage a variety of patients in a community mental health setting or with those reentering the community with a nursing preceptor. NURS 744. Department consent required.

NURS 747: Practicum in Community Mental Health II
2.00 Credits

Practicum. (12 clock hers per week) The focus of this clinical course is experience in those activities that insure delivery of services to the mentally ill. These include programming, budget and quality assurance. 120 clinical hours of supervised practicum with diagnosing and prescribing for the population is included. Department consent required.

NURS 756: Mental Health of the Group
3.00 Credits

(Seminar - 2 hrs, supervision- 2 hrs, clinical - 6 hoursThis course focuses on select prevention and intervention strategies for mental illness. It explores a variety of traditional and short term psychotherapy and psychoeducational models for working with groups. Students are placed in a variety of clinical setting with preceptors to work with therapeutic groups. Department consent required.

NURS 762: Therapeutic Modalities in Child & Adolescent Health
2.00 Credits

The course presents behavioral health therapeutic modalities designed to prepare the school nurse practitioner, the family nurse practitioner, and/or the pediatric nurse practitioner to provide assessment, short-term intervention, evaluation, and referral in primary care settings. The emphasis will be on assessment of behavioral problems of children and adolescents, and their families. Selection of appropriate interventions to provide in primary care settings will be discussed. Methods of short-term therapies, e.g., solution-focused, problem solving, and crisis intervention, will be presented. Psychopharmacology issues of treating children and adolescents with behavioral disorders will be reviewed. Students will be instructed in the application of therapeutic intervention techniques in order to provide immediate behavioral care to children and adolescents in primary care settings. Culturally competent assessment and intervention skills and current biological aspects of behavioral problems will be emphasized. Department consent required.

NURS 766: Family & Culture
3.00 Credits

In this course, theories and concepts in health and illness within families are explored with a cross-cultural context. In addition, major issues impacting families and their health are examined from a cultural perspective. These theories and issues are analyzed in relationship to advanced practice nursing roles. Department consent required.

NURS 779: Children and Adolescents with Special Needs
1.00 Credits

Seminar - (15 hours/semester; Clinical - 30 hours/semester) This is a required clinical course for students enrolled in the pediatric/school nurse practitioner programs. It is open to other interested advanced practice nursing students with permission of the faculty. This course will focus on the assessment and management of complex and chronic health problems of children and adolescents with special needs. Cultural issues affecting chronic illness are examined and a family and community framework is utilized. The roles of advanced practice nurses working with this population are explored. Department consent required.

NURS 780: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Seminar and Practicum I (Young Child)
4.00 Credits

Seminar (Seminar - 5 hours/week; clinical - 135/semester) This is the first clinical course offered to prepare the student for advanced practice as a pediatric, shool, or family nurse practitioner. The course focuses on comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and management of health and common health problems of children in a primary care setting. Concepts and content of well-child maintenance will be explored for specific age groups as well as select common acute illnesses and developmental/behavioral problems presenting in childhood. The client system addressed is the newborn through school age child within a family and community framework. NURS 659. Department consent required.

NURS 781: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Seminar and Practicum II (Adolescents)
1.00 Credits

Seminar (Seminar 2 hours/week; clinical - 90 hours/semester) This is a required clinical course for students preparing for advanced nursing practice as pediatric or school nurse practitioners; it is also offered as a clinical elective course for students in family or adult nurse practitioner programs. This course will focus on the comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and management of health and health problems of adolescents in a primary care setting. A family and community framework is utilized and cultural issues affecting adolescents in society today are examined. NURS 780 and NURS 784. Department consent required.

NURS 781A: Pediactric Nursing Practicum II
1.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 782: Management of Health Problems I
3.00 Credits

Seminar/Practicum (Seminar 3 clock hours; clinical practicum 9 clock hours per week/135 per semester) This is the first of two seminar and practicum courses which address advanced nursing practice and the management of clients with health problems commonly encountered in the delivery of primary care. Didactic content focuses on physical, psychological, socio-cultural and spiritual dimensions of human needs. Practicum activities emphasize refinement of advanced nursing practice skills. Developmental and pharmacological content is integrated throughout the course. The client system of the course is the adolescent, adult, or geriatric individual as a member of the family. NURS 657 (or coreq) and NURS 661 (or coreq)and NURS 698 (or coreq) Department consent required.

NURS 783: Management of Health Problems II
3.00 Credits

(Seminar, 3 clock hours; clinical practicum 9 clock hours per week/135 hours per semester) This is the second of two seminar/practicum courses which address advanced nursing practice and the management of clients with health problems commonly encountered in the delivery of primary care. Didactic focuses on physical, psychological, socio-cultural and spiritual dimensions of human needs. Clinical activities emphasize refinement advanced nursing practice skills. Developomental and pharmacological content is integrated throughout the course. The client system of the course is the adolescent, adult, or geriatric individual as a member of the family. NURS 780 (or coreq) or NURS 782 (or coreq). Department consent required.

NURS 784: Nurse Practitioner Practicum I
1.00 Credits

Practicum (Clinical 6 clock hours per week/90 hours per semester) This precepted practicum experience is taken concurrent with or subsequent to NURS 780, NURS 781, NURS 782 or NURS 783. It provides the necessary clinical time for development and refinement of the Nurse Practitioner role begun in the Seminar and Practicum courses. Department consent required.

NURS 785: Nurse Practitioner Practicum II
1.00 Credits

Practicum (Clinical 6 clock hours per week/90 hours per semester) This precepted practicum experience is taken concurrent with or subsequent to NURS 780, NURS 781, NURS 782 or NURS 783. It provides the necessary clinical time for development and refinement of the Nurse Practitioner role begun in the Seminar and Practicum courses. Department consent required.

NURS 786: Nurse Practitioner Practicum III
1.00 Credits

Practicum (Clinical 6 clock hours per week) This precepted practicum experience is taken concurrent with or subsequent to NURS 780, NURS 781, NURS 782 or NURS 783. It provides the necessary clinical time for development and refinement of the Nurse Practitioner role begun in the Seminar and Practicum courses. Department consent required.

NURS 787: Primary Care of the Newborn
1.00 Credits

(Clinical, 4 clock hours per week) A clinical course designed to supplement 780 and to further develop the clinical skills necessary to provide primary care to the newborn and family. Focuses on initial assessment and management of the full-term neonate. Students can develop skills in physical, behavioral, and psychosocial assessment of newborns in a family framework and increase their knowledge and skills in the evaluation and measurement of health problems encountered in the newborn period. Department consent required.

NURS 788: Nurse Practitioner Clinical
1.00 Credits

(Clinical, 4 clock hours per week) A preceptored clinical experience, taken in conjunction with or subsequent to the Adult or Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Seminar and Practicum I or II. Provides the clinical time needed to continue development and refinement of the practitioner role and/or may be used to augment experiences related to the student's long-term career goals. Prerequisite or concurrent: 780, 781, 782, or 783.

NURS 789: Advanced Practice Role Seminar
1.00 Credits

This Advanced Practice Nurse core course is a two hour weekly course that examines the multiple roles of the advanced practice nurse and analyzes the relationships of role theory and integration within organizations, the health care arena, and various social contexts. The professional, political, and cultural components of role are presented, as well as the legal and ethical issues inherent in advanced practice nursing. Principles of leadership, collaboration, consultation, management, and research are woven into the conceptualization of role development for advanced practice.

NURS 790: Guided Study in Nursing
1.00 Credits

Provides opportunity to explore in depth a selected nursing problem. Learning experiences may include supervised clinical nursing practice, depending on the nature of the problem to be explored. Department consent required.

NURS 792: Guided Study in Nursing
2.00 Credits

Directed Study. Provides opportunity to explore in depth a selected nursing problem. Learning experiences may include supervised clinical nursing practice, depending on the nature of the problem to be explored. Department consent required

NURS 794: Guided Study in Nursing
3.00 Credits

Directed Study. Provides opportunity to explore in depth a selected nursing problem. Learning experiences may include supervised clinical nursing practice, depending on the nature of the problem to be explored. Department consent required.

NURS 796: Guided Study in Nursing
4.00 Credits

Directed Study. Provides opportunity to explore in depth a selected nursing problem. Learning experiences may include supervised clinical nursing practice, depending on the nature of the problem to be explored. Department consent required.

NURS 797: Clinical Nurse Specialist Practicum I
1.00 Credits

Practicum (Practicum, 6 clock hours per week/90 hours per semester) This precepted practicum experience is taken concurrent with or subsequent to NURS 782 or NURS 783. It provides the necessary clinical time for development and refinement of the advanced practice role of clinical nurse specialist role begun in the clinical courses. Department consent required.

NURS 798: Clinical Nurse Specialist II
1.00 Credits

Practicum (Practicum, 6 clock hours per week/90 hours per semester.) This second precepted practicum experience is taken concurrent with or subsequent to NURS 782 or NURS 783. It provides the necessary clinical time for development and refinement of the advanced practice role of clinical nurse specialist role begun in the clinical courses. Department consent required.

NURS 809: Readings in Gerontological Research
3.00 Credits

(3 clock hours) Review of current research in selected topics in gerontology. Discussion of methodological considerations. Emphasizes the application of findings in the advanced practice role of the nurse. Development of a research program in a selected area of gerontological research.

NURS 810: Outcomes Research and Management
3.00 Credits

Lecture (3 clock hours per week) Examines structure and process issues related to the effectiveness of intervention; measurement of patient outcomes (e.g. performance indicators, classifications of indicators, principles of data collection, data integrity); and the relationship of outcomes measurement to quality improvement. Department consent required.

NURS 835: Program Development and Evaluation
3.00 Credits

This course is designed to support the ongoing development of the role of nurse as educator. The development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs are analyzed. Standards for nursing education provide the context for analysis. Characteristics of the reflective teacher and the reflective learner are examined. While emphasis is placed on the role of the nurse faculty member in an educational institution, the role of the nurse as patient and staff educator also is explored. Pre or co-requisites include NURS 708 Research in Nursing: Methods and Outcomes, NURS 661 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing, and at least one clinical course. Permission of the instructor required

NURS 836: Education Seminar and Practicum
3.00 Credits

This course provides theoretical and field experiences for future nurse educators. Theoretical content focuses on exploring aspects of the faculty role, skills for the neophyte teacher, as well as issues that affect implementation of the faculty role. Exact seminar topics will be refined during the first few class sessions and will depend on the interests, experience, and background of the students as well as concurrent practicum experiences. Practicum experiences focus on implementing and evaluating the teaching-learning process. Students¿ practica may be in an academic or clinical agency setting. A minimum of approximately 9 hours a week or 135 hours for the semester will be related to practicum activities.

NURS 843: Management Seminar and Practicum
3.00 Credits

Seminar and Practicum (Seminar,1.5 clock hours; practicum 90 clock hours per semester) Focuses on concepts and theories related to nursing management such as human resources, leadership, financial issues, strategic planning. Includes analysis of selected case studies and nursing management research. Students apply concepts and theories in the development of a business plan. Practicum experiences provide the student with an opportunity to apply theory and research in a variety of health care agencies. Department consent required.

NURS 895: Capstone Research Project
3.00 Credits

(3 clock hours per week) Provides the opportunity for students to develop and implement a research project reflecting analysis, synthesis, and integration of knowledge for advanced practice. Not required for students completing a thesis; taken during the final semester of study. Department consent required.

NURS 900: Research Overview
1.00 Credits

On-campus and On-line Interactive Course with Supervised Project) Focuses on the research process and provides a basis for continuing study in research and theory development and testing. Prerequisite: Completion of master's level research and statistics courses. Department consent required.

NURS 907: Seminar: Theory Development in Nursing
3.00 Credits

Seminar (3 clock hours) Focuses on the process of the development of theory in general and theory in nursing. Critique/evaluation of theories; explores the relationship of theory to practice and research. Department consent required.

NURS 908: Qualitative Research in Nursing
3.00 Credits

Research (3 clock hours per week) Focuses on qualitative methods for nursing research. Examines major methods employed in qualitative research and the application of these methods to problems/phenomena in nursing. Evaluation and critique of research studies utilizing qualitative methods. Ethical issues and the advantages and limitations of qualitative methods. Department consent required.

NURS 909: Quantitative Research in Nursing
3.00 Credits

Seminar (3 clock hours per week) Study of nursing research methods that generate primarily quantitative data. Critical analysis incorporates the theoretical model, design, and methodology (including sampling, measurement, and data analysis) of quantitative studies. Prerequisite or concurrent: Advanced statistics.

NURS 911: Qualitative Research Methods
3.00 Credits

Seminar (3 clock hours per week) Focuses on the methods employed to conduct a qualitative research project. Builds on 908, Qualitative Research in Nursing. Exploration and application of topics such as sampling, interviewing and observation techniques, and data collection methods appropriate to specific, student-selected designs. Application of coding methods and data analysis methods such as thematic abstraction, clustering, categorization, and theory writing. Prerequisite: 908. Department consent required.

NURS 916: Seminar in Nursing Scholarship
1.00 Credits

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NURS 922: Research Seminar and Practicum
3.00 Credits

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NURS 923: Clinical Problems: Theoretical Considerations
3.00 Credits

Seminar (3 clock hours per week) Fosters the theory-practice-research linkage that contributes to an understanding of the nature of nursing science. Students are guided in clinical problem identification and the investigation of theories relevant to their selected clinical problems from a research and practice perspective. A seminar design incorporating scholarly inquiry facilitates achievement of essential behaviors. Students are encouraged to develop a proposal to submit for pre-doctoral funding from appropriate agencies. NURS 907 (or coreq) and NURS 908 (or coreq). Department consent required

NURS 924: Clinical Problems: Design Considerations
3.00 Credits

Seminar (3 clock hours per week) Builds upon the work done in NURS 923 through which students were guided in their exploration of the identification and defense of a clinically relevant problem and the theory-practice-research linkage as it relates to the problem. The seminar design facilitates scholarly inquiry through the incorporation of peer review/critiques. NURS 923. Department consent required.

NURS 926: Seminar in Health Policy Formulation and Analysis
3.00 Credits

Lecture (2 clock hours) Examines major health issues to determine their relationship to and impact upon public policy. A major focus is the identification, formulation, and legitimation of health policy in the United States. Departmnet consent required.

NURS 930: Seminar on Research Proposals
3.00 Credits

Research (3 clock hours per week) Focuses on the nature and characteristics of a research proposal. Students are expected to develop a research proposal reflecting preliminary work on the first three chapters of the dissertation. Prerequisite: Completion of 923 and 924 and a major portion of doctoral program requirements. This course is taken during the final semester of course work. Department consent required

NURS 995: Master's Thesis Guidance
0.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 996: Master's Thesis Guidance
0.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 997: Doctoral Dissertation Guidance
0.00 Credits

no description available

NURS 998: Doctoral Dissertation Guidance
0.00 Credits

no description available