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NURS 7140 DNP Project Portfolio Advisement


The course focuses on development of components of the DNP Scholarship Portfolio. The DNP Practice Inquiry Project will require that the student develop a practice focused problem that will include application of an intervention for the problem with the appropriate metric evaluation and dissemination of the project findings. The Practice Inquiry Project will be presented for approval in this course. This course will assist the student in the refinement of the plan, methodology, and implementation of the Practice Inquiry Project.
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NURS 7180 DNP Advanced Seminar I

This course will provide the students with the opportunity to interact with faculty and community/organizational leaders related to their DNP Project Inquiry. Students will demonstrate their breadth and synthesis of knowledge of the DNP Essentials as it related to their project.
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NURS 7181 Special Topics

A course designed to permit the offering of topics of current interest. Topics and projects are selected on the basis of student interest and need. May be repeated for credit when content varies. Prerequisite: permission of the Director of Doctoral Program.

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NURS 7182 DNP Advanced Seminar II

This is the second of the Advanced Seminar courses that will provide the students with the opportunity to interact with faculty and community/organizational leaders related to their DNP Project Inquiry. Students will demonstrate their breadth and synthesis of knowledge of the DNP Essentials as it related to their project.
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NURS 7183 DNP Advanced Seminar III

This is the third of the Advanced Seminar courses that will provide the students with the opportunity to interact with faculty and community/organizational leaders related to their DNP Project Inquiry. Students will demonstrate their breadth and synthesis of knowledge of the DNP Essentials as it related to their project.
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NURS 7191 Independent Study

An independent study directed by a full-time graduate faculty member in the College of Education. May be repeated for credit when the content varies. Prerequisite: permission of the Director of Doctoral Program.

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NURS 7220 Information Technology in Health Care

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the issues in healthcare information technology. Students will develop the skills necessary to evaluate health care information systems regarding monitoring of outcomes, patient safety, and quality improvement. Ethical and legal issues related to Information Technology will be addressed.
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NURS 7241 DNP Scholarship Project Advisement I

The course focuses on continued development of components of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project. This course will assist the student in the refinement of the plan, methodology, and implementation of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project.
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NURS 7243 DNP Scholarship Project Advisement III

The course focuses on continued development of components of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project. This course will assist the student in the refinement of the plan, methodology, and implementation of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project.
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NURS 7244 DNP Scholarship Project Advisement IV

The course focuses on continued development of components of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project. This course will assist the student in the refinement of the plan, methodology, and implementation of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project.
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NURS 7281 Special Topics

A course designed to permit the offering of topics of current interest. Topics and projects are selected on the basis of student interest and need. May be repeated for credit when content varies. Prerequisite: permission of the Director of Doctoral Program.

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NURS 7290 Independent Study

An independent study directed by a full-time graduate faculty member in the College of Education. May be repeated for credit when the content varies. Prerequisite: permission of the Director of Doctoral Program.

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NURS 7308 Field-Based Internship

Doctoral students complete a required doctoral internship (EDAD/NURS 7308) in the third year.  In preparing the doctoral internship proposal, students select an intern setting that provides the greatest opportunity for development as a scholar-practitioner leader.  The internship experience may be completed within the student's current employing organization or in another setting.  If a student chooses to complete a second internship, it must be completed in a different setting.
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NURS 7310 Scholarly Foundations of Advanced Practice

This course serves as the foundational course for the DNP and will explore the qualities necessary to be a leader and clinical scholar in a complex health care system. This course will study the scientific underpinnings of nursing knowledge significant to develop the role of the DNP. Students will evaluate and develops new practice approaches based not only on nursing theories but theories from other disciplines.
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NURS 7315 Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes

This course will analyze Interprofessional collaboration as a fundamental component of the DNP practice. This course focuses on Interprofessional methodologies to address emerging health care issues and analyze methods to lead change in a complex Interprofessional healthcare delivery systems. Students will be given the opportunity to explore these issues at the state level.
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NURS 7320 Appraisal and Application Evidence Based Practice Principles

This course is designed to build the foundation for Evidence Based health care. Students will use analytical methods to critically evaluate literature to determine and implement evidence based care and develop practice guidelines. Students will develop skills necessary to design, direct and evaluate quality improvement methodologies to promote safe, effective, efficient, and equitable healthcare. Key aspects of how to disseminate and integrate research into both organization and clinical practice will be included.
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NURS 7321 Translational Science

This course will extend Evidence Based Practice principles and enhance the student’s ability to translate research into practice. Students will refine the skills necessary to disseminate research findings in order to develop evidence based practice guidelines that will improve healthcare outcomes. Students will integrate research knowledge to evaluate practice, practice settings, and health care organizations against national benchmarks to determine variances in practice outcomes and population trends.
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NURS 7322 Statistical Analysis for the DNP Project

This course focuses on the use of biostatistical data to critically analyze data and evidence for improving advanced nursing practice.
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NURS 7323 Healthcare Economics Practice Management

This course prepares the student to be a leader in the global health care arena. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the principles of business, finance, economics and health policy needed to be effective leaders. This course will present the skills necessary to evaluate the costs, risk, and value of health care. Students will examine the political and economic environment of the health care systems at the national level.

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NURS 7324 Healthcare Ethics and Health Policy

This course will explore and analyze the dynamics of health care policy and the influence these policies have on the delivery of health care. Students will develop skills necessary to become leaders in developing and implementing institutional, local, state, federal and/or international health policies. Students will acquire the knowledge necessary to educate policy makers at all levels regarding nursing, health policy and patient care outcomes. Ethics related to health care policies will be explored. This course will provide students with the opportunity to exercise these skills at the national international level.
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NURS 7325 Organizational Systems in Leadership for Quality Improvement and Systems Thinking

This course focuses on organizational and systems leadership within complex, global health care systems. Innovative leadership skills and quality improvement strategies will be explored. Students will acquire the use of advance communications skills needed to lead quality improvement and patient safety initiatives within health care systems. Students will evaluate health care delivery approaches needed to meet the current and future needs of diverse populations of patients. Additionally, students will develop strategies to manage ethical dilemmas related to patient care, heath care organizations and research.
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NURS 7326 Advanced Management of Complex Health Conditions and Genomics

This course focuses on advanced clinical management of patients and diverse populations with complex health care needs. This course will introduce principles and concepts of epidemiology and the impact on individual, aggregate, and population health. Students will also explore the relationship and contribution of genetics and genomics to healthcare issues, including disease susceptibility and therapeutic efficacy. The role of genomics in personalized medicine will be explored. Students will synthesize concepts, including psychosocial dimensions and cultural diversity, related to clinical prevention and population health and will develop, implement, and evaluate interventions to improve health status, access to care and gaps in the care of individuals, aggregates or populations. This course is designed to assist student in developing high level clinical reasoning in order to provide positive patient outcomes within a framework of evidence-based practice.
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NURS 7330 Advanced Curriculum Development and Interprofessional Education in Nursing Education

Designed to provide students with an in-depth study of the principles, social, cultural, and economic factors and inter-professional issues that impact curriculum and program development in baccalaureate and higher degree nursing education. The process of accreditation is also reviewed.

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NURS 7331 Theories and Concepts in Nursing Leadership

Leadership and management theories and concepts are presented with applications made to the nursing faculty and administrative leadership roles. Building upon professional education and experience of learners, essential skills, core competencies, and best practices in leadership are explored.

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NURS 7332 Evidence-Based Practice in Classroom and Clinical Instruction

Prepares nurse educators to identify and apply evidence based practice teaching methods to student learning and evaluation, and teacher and program effectiveness. Teaching pedagogy as it relates to nursing education, fairness in evaluation, and integration of new and emerging technologies, assessment, and reporting is presented.

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NURS 7333 Innovation in Classroom Clinical, and Simulation Teaching and Evaluation in Nursing

A focus on innovation in classroom, clinical and simulated learning is presented as a framework for building upon the students’ professional experience as educators, objective assessment and evaluation of students is explored. Legal and ethical implications of teaching, learning and the evaluative process are included.

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NURS 7342 DNP Scholarship Project Advisement

The course focuses on the refinement of the DNP Scholarship Portfolio. The student will work with the faculty on the DNP Practice Inquiry Project. This course will assist the student in the refinement of the plan, methodology, and implementation of the Practice Inquiry Project.
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NURS 7370 DNP Fellowship I

This course serves as the clinical practice component of the DNP program and focuses on the direct care of patients within a population of interest. The course provides the student with a clinical specialty immersion experience necessary to plan and design the Practice Inquiry Project. The student is expected to utilize advanced levels of clinical judgement, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care to improve patient outcomes. Students use conceptual and analytical skills in evaluating the links among practice, organizational, population, fiscal and policy issues in the health care arena.
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NURS 7371 DNP Fellowship II

This course serves as the clinical practice component of the DNP program and focuses on the direct care of patients within a population of interest. The course provides the student with a clinical specialty immersion experience necessary to plan and design the Practice Inquiry Project. The student is expected to utilize advanced levels of clinical judgement, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care to improve patient outcomes. Students use conceptual and analytical skills in evaluating the links among practice, organizational, population, fiscal and policy issues in the health care arena.
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NURS 7381 Special Topics

A course designed to permit the offering of topics of current interest. Topics and projects are selected on the basis of student interest and need. May be repeated for credit when content varies. Prerequisite: permission of the Director of Doctoral Program.

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NURS 7390 Independent Study

An independent study directed by a full-time graduate faculty member in the College of Education. May be repeated for credit when the content varies. Prerequisite: permission of the Director of Doctoral Program.

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