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plans including full-time
enrollment, half-time
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Nursing
532 Theoretical Base for Advanced Nursing
Practice
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critical analyses of theory and its use for
advanced nursing practice. The inter-relationship
between theory, practice and research is examined
along with the nature of nursling’s
scientific body of knowledge. Various methods
for developing scientific knowledge for practice
are used to formulate knowledge for advanced
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Nursing
535 Strategy for Nursing and Health Care
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| This course is designed
to provide students as present and future
leaders with a political, economic, and financial
understanding of the health care system. In
addition, fundamentals of strategy are introduced
to facilitate the merging of the policy and
financial side with the clinical dimension.
Fundamental changes in system structure brought
about by the growth of alternate health care
delivery models, ethical issues, utility improvement
and other aspects of health care reform will
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Nursing
536 Utilization of Nursing Research in Advanced
Practice
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The primary goal of this
course is to promote an evidence-based approach
to advanced nursing practice. Evidenced-based
research findings for nursing practice will
be evaluated in terms of racial, ethnic, and
socioeconomic relevance. An understanding
of the research process, applicable theories,
organizational dynamics, and leadership functions
are applied to design and process of implementing
research in health care settings.
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Nursing
603 Data Management, Analysis and Representation
for Advanced Practice in Nursing
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This course is an in-depth
coverage of the strategies involved in data
management and data analysis, including statistical
procedures and interpretation of data, for
nursing research, and relevance to clinical
practices. Students will apply knowledge of
descriptive, parametric, and non-parametric,
univariate, and selected multivariate approaches
to data analysis. Emphasis will be on interpretation
of statistical results and evaluation of published
research and its applicability to clinical
practice. Interpretation of statistical results
and published research will be evaluated in
terms of potential bias and relevancy related
to gender, race, ethnic, socioeconomic, and
sociodemographic factors. Computers will be
used for data analysis. SPSS for windows will
be the statistical system used in the course.
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Nursing
634 Advanced Nursing Management
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The purpose of this
advanced management course is to analyze
the underlying premises, theories, research,
and state of the art models and practices
regarding current and future challenges
facing the profession of nursing. The content
will include an analysis of the role of
the nurse manager in today's healthcare
environment along with methods of achieving
quality patient care, patient satisfaction,
staff satisfaction with their jobs and work
environment, and the financial success of
the organization.
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Nursing
636 Quality/Patient Safety
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This web-based course
focuses on the identification, implementation,
and evaluation of patient safety and quality
of care outcomes. The course provides students
with a theoretical and methodological foundation
for understanding and applying patient safety
and quality of care outcomes within the
current clinical and health care environment.
Safety applications in other high-risk industries
will be reviewed and applied to nursing
and the healthcare industry. Students will
learn how a patient safety and quality measurement
system are part of the health care organization
strategic goals. Particular emphasis will
be given to the identification, implementation,
and evaluation of quality indicators for
patient safety and other patient outcomes.
Patient safety and quality indicators will
be evaluated for their sensitivity and specificity
to clinical care. The role of clinical leadership
and management in error prevention and maintenance
of patient safety will be addressed.
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Nursing
651 Quality and Operations Management
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The purpose of this course
is to prepare the nurse leader to apply decision-making
and financial management tools to the planning,
implementing and evaluating of cost effective
quality patient care. Quality management theory
and practice will be discussed. Use of quantitative
and qualitative tools and techniques will
be emphasized in the context of how leaders
implement the organizational strategic plan.
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Nursing
654 Nursing Informatics
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The purpose of this
course is to provide nurse leaders with
a working understanding of the technical,
user, and environmental factors that must
be considered in building computerized clinical
nursing information systems to provide quality
information that supports nursing care and
resource decisions. The capability currently
exists to collect the requisite clinical,
administrative, and financial data through
automated systems. This course will focus
on methods of identifying necessary changes
to improve cost, quality, and access to
care.
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Nursing
655 / HMP 605 Managerial Accounting for Health
Care Administrators
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The purpose of this
course is to impart to generalist administrators
knowledge of finance and accounting necessary
to manage health care organizations. Topics
covered include an introduction to financial
accounting, cost accounting, budgeting and
control, pricing, capital expenditure analysis,
and financing.
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Nursing
657 Innovation and Change
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This course prepares
nurse leaders to design new health delivery
methods by studying and applying the theoretical
frameworks, skills and tools necessary to
create successful and sustainable change.
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Nursing
659 Systems Assessment and Strategic Planning
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This course is designed
to apply systems knowledge and skills to
a real life assessment of a healthcare organization.
It focuses on integrating systems components
and analyzing their interactions. Particular
emphasis is given to the development of
systems assessment techniques such as interviewing,
document analysis and synthesis, and on
site observations. Students, working in
small groups to conduct their organizational
assessment, apply teamwork didactic content
presented in other courses in the curriculum.
Although one credit of the four for the
course is devoted solely to the actual time
spent conducting the assessment, it is also
an integral part of all other assignments
and requirements for the course.
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Nursing
662 Nursing Entrepreneurship
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This course presents the
entrepreneurial and the service/product development
processes as they relate to nursing. The focus
is on the development implementation and evaluation
of new ventures. Strategies for dealing effectively
with uncertainty, risk, and failure and for
promoting services and products are explored.
Personal lifestyle and characteristics of
the entrepreneur are also included.
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Nursing
664 Nursing and Health Policy
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This course focuses
on the process of nursing and healthcare
public policy development. Four stages of
public policy development form the basic
structure of this course: agenda setting,
policy formation, policy implementation
and policy evaluation. Federal, state and
local political structures and functions
are explored along with the hierarchy of
political involvement, interest groups and
lobbying, advocacy strategies, ethical issues,
media relations and the public policy change
process. Example nursing and health care
policies are analyzed retrospectively to
illustrate the key concepts covered in the
application of the concepts presented in
the course.
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Nursing
672 Strategies for Teaching in Nursing
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This competency based course
presents an introduction to the role and function
of the nurse involved in staff development,
patient education or faculty teaching. Following
consideration of the philosophy and theory
of teaching and learning, students learn principles
of curriculum and training program development
for nursing through an understanding of the
characteristics of learners, analysis of needs
assessments, development of instructional
objectives and design of a course. A variety
of both traditional and innovative teaching
and evaluation methodologies are explored,
including distance learning and online instruction;
clinical experiential learning; and evaluation
measures.
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Nursing
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