MSN and DNPAdult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Theories of nursing, professional roles, the nursing process, adaptation theory, nursing research, and societal influences on nursing and health.

As a consumer of research, the student evaluates published nursing research and its importance to the profession. The student examines the steps of the research process in critiquing literature and writing a comprehensive review of literature. Use of the computer in nursing research correlated with the study of the research process.

Explores the role of the nurse in community settings. Applies principles of epidemiology, health promotion, and disease prevention to nursing practice. Examines the core functions of public health nursing, essential services, and population-based practice.

Selected community practicum experiences will be correlated with theoretical content of NUR 404.

Detailed presentation of pathological conditions in the human body, with particular focus on the cellular basis for disease in muscular, respiratory, renal, and cardiovascular systems.

Principles and procedures for statistical interpretation of data. Study of measures and control tendency, variability, correlation, and introductory predictive and inferential statistics.

Analysis of theoretical models. Emphasis on assessment and implications of models for advanced professional nursing practice and research.

Allows the learner to explore theories related to the generation of evidence, Research Utilization (RU), and Evidence Based Practice (EBP). Issues from practice areas are identified, developed, and refined into a researchable project.

Systematic method for collecting data used in holistic health assessment of persons throughout the lifespan and in various healthcare settings. Emphasis is placed on interviewing techniques for history taking and advanced physical assessment skills.

Introduces the learner to concepts in health informatics and provides the foundation for practice in the healthcare technology field. Explores healthcare data, clinical information management systems, security, personal productivity applications, consumer informatics, legal issues, and professional skills, knowledge, and certifications related to health informatics.

Explores health policy development and implementation and its impact on healthcare regulation, delivery, and finance. There is a focus on wellness and promotion of health for local, national, and worldwide health initiatives. Students will define healthcare provider roles in health promotion, healthcare delivery, and quality improvement through activities related to health policy reform and finance.

Provides the student with the knowledge and skills to assess, diagnose, and pharmacologically manage the treatment of common health problems in a safe, high-quality, and cost-effective manner.

This course focuses on the clinical foundation of advanced practice nursing management of adolescents, adults, and geriatric clients with acute and chronic health problems. Emphasis is placed on diagnosis and management. Students utilize clinical practice guidelines to ensure safe evidence-based care. The clinical focus (provided in a variety of direct patient care settings) is on the role of the acute care nurse practitioner working with a multidisciplinary team across settings to facilitate and accelerate the patient’s return to optimal health. Students will register for 6 semester hours, completing 200 clinical hours at selected facilities under the guidance of the clinical preceptor.

This course continues the focus on the clinical foundation of advanced practice nursing management of adolescents, adults, and geriatric clients with acute and chronic health problems.  Emphasis is placed on the diagnosis and management. Students utilize clinical practice guidelines to ensure safe evidence-based care.  The clinical focus (provided in a variety of direct patient care settings) is on the role of the acute care nurse practitioner working with a multidisciplinary team across settings to facilitate and accelerate the patient’s return to optimal health. Students will register for 6 semester hours, completing 200 clinical hours at selected facilities under the guidance of the clinical preceptor.

This course continues the focus on the clinical foundation of advanced practice nursing management of adolescents, adults, and geriatric clients with acute and chronic health problems.  Emphasis is placed on the diagnosis and management. Students utilize clinical practice guidelines to ensure safe evidence-based care. The clinical focus (provided in a variety of direct patient care settings) is on the role of the acute care nurse practitioner working with a multidisciplinary team across settings to facilitate and accelerate the patient’s return to optimal health. Students will register for 6 semester hours, completing 200 clinical hours at selected facilities under the guidance of the clinical preceptor.

Designed for the nurse to explore the professional aspects and challenges associated with advanced practice nursing. Tailored to meet the needs of a variety of specialties including a focus upon organizational, systems, and population strategies.

Detailed presentation of pathological conditions in the human body, with particular focus on the cellular basis for disease in muscular, respiratory, renal, and cardiovascular systems.

Principles and procedures for statistical interpretation of data. Study of measures and control tendency, variability, correlation, and introductory predictive and inferential statistics.

Analysis of theoretical models. Emphasis on assessment and implications of models for advanced professional nursing practice and research.

Allows the learner to explore theories related to the generation of evidence, Research Utilization (RU), and Evidence Based Practice (EBP). Issues from practice areas are identified, developed, and refined into a researchable project.

Systematic method for collecting data used in holistic health assessment of persons throughout the lifespan and in various healthcare settings. Emphasis is placed on interviewing techniques for history taking and advanced physical assessment skills.

Introduces the learner to concepts in health informatics and provides the foundation for practice in the healthcare technology field. Explores healthcare data, clinical information management systems, security, personal productivity applications, consumer informatics, legal issues, and professional skills, knowledge, and certifications related to health informatics.

Explores health policy development and implementation and its impact on healthcare regulation, delivery, and finance. There is a focus on wellness and promotion of health for local, national, and worldwide health initiatives. Students will define healthcare provider roles in health promotion, healthcare delivery, and quality improvement through activities related to health policy reform and finance.

Provides the student with the knowledge and skills to assess, diagnose, and pharmacologically manage the treatment of common health problems in a safe, high-quality, and cost-effective manner.

This course focuses on the clinical foundation of advanced practice nursing management of adolescents, adults, and geriatric clients with acute and chronic health problems. Emphasis is placed on diagnosis and management. Students utilize clinical practice guidelines to ensure safe evidence-based care. The clinical focus (provided in a variety of direct patient care settings) is on the role of the acute care nurse practitioner working with a multidisciplinary team across settings to facilitate and accelerate the patient’s return to optimal health. Students will register for 6 semester hours, completing 200 clinical hours at selected facilities under the guidance of the clinical preceptor.

This course continues the focus on the clinical foundation of advanced practice nursing management of adolescents, adults, and geriatric clients with acute and chronic health problems.  Emphasis is placed on the diagnosis and management. Students utilize clinical practice guidelines to ensure safe evidence-based care.  The clinical focus (provided in a variety of direct patient care settings) is on the role of the acute care nurse practitioner working with a multidisciplinary team across settings to facilitate and accelerate the patient’s return to optimal health. Students will register for 6 semester hours, completing 200 clinical hours at selected facilities under the guidance of the clinical preceptor.

This course continues the focus on the clinical foundation of advanced practice nursing management of adolescents, adults, and geriatric clients with acute and chronic health problems.  Emphasis is placed on the diagnosis and management. Students utilize clinical practice guidelines to ensure safe evidence-based care. The clinical focus (provided in a variety of direct patient care settings) is on the role of the acute care nurse practitioner working with a multidisciplinary team across settings to facilitate and accelerate the patient’s return to optimal health. Students will register for 6 semester hours, completing 200 clinical hours at selected facilities under the guidance of the clinical preceptor.

Designed for the nurse to explore the professional aspects and challenges associated with advanced practice nursing. Tailored to meet the needs of a variety of specialties including a focus upon organizational, systems, and population strategies.

Detailed presentation of pathological conditions in the human body, with particular focus on the cellular basis for disease in muscular, respiratory, renal, and cardiovascular systems.

Examines the economic and financial aspects of the health care system. Organizational and institutional structures through which an economy makes choices regarding the production, consumption, and distribution of health care services. Fundamental processes for the management of liquidity, major capital investments, debt, and funding. Examines both for-profit and not-for-profit health care organizations.

Systematic method for collecting data used in holistic health assessment of persons throughout the lifespan and in various healthcare settings. Emphasis is placed on interviewing techniques for history taking and advanced physical assessment skills.

Provides the student with the knowledge and skills to assess, diagnose, and pharmacologically manage the treatment of common health problems in a safe, high-quality, and cost-effective manner.

Provides a theoretical analysis of nursing and the natural and social sciences for application as frameworks for research, practice, education, and quality healthcare delivery.

Focuses on core concepts in health and health promotion for groups, communities, and populations. There are two inter-related goals for this course. (1) Provide students with a basic understanding of the principles and determinants of population health with an emphasis on the tools provided by basic epidemiology for understanding health in populations. (2) Provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the steps needed to develop, implement, and evaluate population-based health promotion and illness prevention programs.

Examination of research study design/methodology and application and interpretation of descriptive and inferential statistical methods appropriate for critical appraisal of evidence. Use of analytic software for data management and preliminary analysis prepares students to assess quantitative and qualitative data, understand research methodology, and critically evaluate research findings.

Introduces the learner to theories related to Research Utilization (RU) and Evidence-based Practice (EBP) and provides opportunities to explore issues and refine questions related to quality and cost-effective healthcare delivery for the best client outcomes. Methods to collect evidence, plan changes for the transformation of practice, and evaluate quality improvement methods will be discussed.

Emphasizes organizational and system leadership strategies for the advanced practice nurse with an emphasis on productivity in emerging practice environment. Improvement of health outcomes, patient safety, and inter-professional collaboration will be included.

This course examines the political and ethical decisions and issues that shape the organization, financing, and implementation of health care services and delivery systems at the local, national and global levels. Students will have opportunities to critically analyze ethical, social, and political issues that affect the provision of health care, practice, research, education, and administration and how each intersects with ones personal values. Students will define the APNs role in health promotion, healthcare delivery, and quality improvement through activities related to health policy reform. Health policy development and implementation and its impact on healthcare regulation, delivery, and finance will also be explored.

This course examines the current trends in health informatics and data analytic methods. It provides opportunities for the advanced practice nurse (APN) to apply theoretical concepts of informatics to individual and aggregate level health information. Emphasis is placed on the APN’s leadership role in the use of health information to improve health care delivery and outcomes.

This course focuses on the clinical foundation of advanced practice nursing management of adolescents, adults, and geriatric clients with acute and chronic health problems. Emphasis is placed on diagnosis and management. Students utilize clinical practice guidelines to ensure safe evidence-based care. The clinical focus (provided in a variety of direct patient care settings) is on the role of the acute care nurse practitioner working with a multidisciplinary team across settings to facilitate and accelerate the patient’s return to optimal health. Students will register for 6 semester hours, completing 200 clinical hours at selected facilities under the guidance of the clinical preceptor.

This course continues the focus on the clinical foundation of advanced practice nursing management of adolescents, adults, and geriatric clients with acute and chronic health problems.  Emphasis is placed on the diagnosis and management. Students utilize clinical practice guidelines to ensure safe evidence-based care.  The clinical focus (provided in a variety of direct patient care settings) is on the role of the acute care nurse practitioner working with a multidisciplinary team across settings to facilitate and accelerate the patient’s return to optimal health. Students will register for 6 semester hours, completing 200 clinical hours at selected facilities under the guidance of the clinical preceptor.

This course continues the focus on the clinical foundation of advanced practice nursing management of adolescents, adults, and geriatric clients with acute and chronic health problems.  Emphasis is placed on the diagnosis and management. Students utilize clinical practice guidelines to ensure safe evidence-based care. The clinical focus (provided in a variety of direct patient care settings) is on the role of the acute care nurse practitioner working with a multidisciplinary team across settings to facilitate and accelerate the patient’s return to optimal health. Students will register for 6 semester hours, completing 200 clinical hours at selected facilities under the guidance of the clinical preceptor.

This course, the first of a four-course series, provides the DNP student with mentored opportunities to plan, implement, and evaluate a multifaceted DNP project built upon the DNP Essentials. Each course builds on the knowledge, skills, and practice expertise of the DNP student and culminates in the completion of the DNP project. The focus of this course is on the identification and planning components of the written DNP project proposal. Students will register for 3 semester hours, completing 50 practicum hours in which the DNP student will seek opportunities, with the guidance of their mentor, to hone skills within the DNP Essentials.

This course, the second of a four-course series, provides the DNP student with mentored opportunities to plan, implement, and evaluate a multifaceted DNP project built upon the DNP Essentials. Each course builds on the knowledge, skills, and practice expertise of the DNP student and culminates in the completion of the DNP project. The focus of this course is on the completion of a written DNP project proposal and the application and approval of Institutional Review Board or Committee on the Use of Human Subjects in Research of the DNP project. Students will register for 3 semester hours, completing 50 practicum hours in which the DNP student will seek opportunities, with the guidance of their mentor, to hone skills within the DNP Essentials.

This course, the third course in a four-course series, provides the DNP student with mentored opportunities to plan, implement, and evaluate a multifaceted DNP project built upon the DNP Essentials. Each course builds on the knowledge, skills, and practice expertise of the DNP student, culminating in the completion of the DNP project. The focus of this course is on project implementation and evaluation of the DNP project. Students will register for 3 semester hours, completing 125 practicum hours in which the DNP student will seek opportunities, with the guidance of their mentor, to hone skills within the DNP Essentials.

This course, the fourth course in a four course series, provides the DNP student with mentored opportunities to plan, implement, and evaluate a multifaceted DNP project built upon the DNP Essentials. Each course builds on the knowledge, skills and practice expertise of the DNP student, culminating in the completion of the DNP project paper. The DNP project culminates in a final oral presentation and dissemination of the DNP project course. Students will register for 3 semester hours, completing 75 practicum hours in which the DNP student will seek opportunities, with the guidance of their mentor, to hone skills within the DNP Essentials.

Designed for the nurse to explore the professional aspects and challenges associated with advanced practice nursing. Tailored to meet the needs of a variety of specialties including a focus upon organizational, systems, and population strategies.