NURS 9050: DNP Health Informatics (Grade: A)
Objectives:
Explore selected theories relevant to nursing informatics.
Apply computer technology to the management of individuals, groups, and/or organizations in the roles of healthcare practitioner, administrator, educator, and/or researcher.
Examine social, ethical and legal issues related to health informatics, electronic health records, and healthcare delivery in the digital age.
Investigate data management and computer applications used in healthcare research, clinical practice, nursing, health administration, and/or nursing education.
Apply leadership strategies for selecting, planning, implementing, and evaluating information systems for the provision of nursing services.
Develop quality improvement strategies through a) identification of a current problem or issue in the clinical practice setting relevant to nursing informatics; b) utilization of a workflow analysis; c) identification of gaps from current state to future state; and d) proposal of solutions (including implementation and evaluation), following the systems development life cycle.
Discuss current trends in computer technology and their impact on the design and evolution of information systems in healthcare.
Domains Met: 5, 8
NURS 9210: DNP Role, Theory, and Philosophy (Grade: A)
Objectives:
Integrate nursing science with knowledge from philosophical, ethics, biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, organizational, and genomic sciences as a basis for doctoral nursing practice.
Develop and evaluate effective strategies for managing ethical dilemmas in patient care, the heath care organization, the health care system, and clinical research.
Utilize science-based theories and concepts to determine the nature and significance of health and health care delivery.
Articulate the history, current trends, scope and standards, and competencies, of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) role.
Critically analyze data for practice by integrating philosophical and theoretical knowledge within the context of nursing’s philosophical framework and scientific foundation.
Evaluate changes in nursing practice based on a synthesis of philosophical and theoretical knowledge.
Domains Met: 1, 9
NURS 8090: Pathophysiology for Advanced Nursing (Grade: A)
Objectives:
Analyze disease processes that alter health across the life span, including genetics.
Recognize manifestations of selected disease processes in major body systems across the life span.
Analyze compensatory mechanisms of the body response to illness or injury.
Apply current research findings to the analysis of health alterations across the life span.
Domains Met: 1, 2
NURS 8060: Advanced Assessment in Nursing (Grade: A)
Objectives:
Perform physical, psychosocial, cultural, and environmental assessment on clients of any age within the family context.
Determine appropriate diagnostic tests for client symptoms and suspected health problems.
Diagnose actual and potential health problems based on all sources of assessment.
Obtain complete and detailed information about client/family resources to cope with health problem.
Monitor common/chronic health problems.
Refer diagnostic constellations appropriately.
Domains Met: 1, 2, 3
NURS 9020: DNP Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatics (Grade: A)
Objectives:
Apply epidemiological principles to the analysis of populations for clinical decision making in advanced nursing practice.
Apply biostatistical procedures to the analysis of populations for clinical decision making in advanced nursing practice.
Analyze data using SPSS for clinical decision making in advanced nursing practice.
Select appropriate analytical procedures for given clinical situations in advanced nursing practice.
Demonstrate an understanding of the derivation and basic theory of analytical procedures covered.
Domain Met: 4
NURS 8050: Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nursing (Grade: A)
Objectives:
Know standards of practice for prescriptive authority as defined by legal guidelines and regulations.
Know state and DEA regulations for writing valid prescriptions.
Demonstrate understanding of basic pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics.
Identify basic concepts of drug therapy selection and monitoring.
Identify appropriate drugs for selected acute and chronic illnesses across the age generations.
Calculate drug dosages based on age, body size, and physiological state.
Analyze patient profiles for drug interactions.
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NURS 9040: Leadership in Healthcare Systems (Grade: A)
Objectives:
.Describe the legal and ethical principles and practices of effective leaders.
Evaluate indicators of organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
Analyze the distinctive challenges associated with managing and leading complex organizations through change.
Demonstrate understanding of effective transformational leadership in selected health care environment.
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NURS 9270: DNP Healthcare Economics, Finance & Policy (Grade: A)
Objectives:
Synthesize the roles and responsibility of the DNP related to healthcare economics and finance.
Evaluate the impact of healthcare economics and finance on DNP practice.
Discuss the decisions involved in health care finance and the impact on budgets and performance expectations.
Evaluate the methods for analysis, interpretation, and use of accounting information for planning and controlling the health care organization.
Analyze the effectiveness of decisions regarding operating activities based on the measurement, processing, and reporting of financial information.
Apply budgeting concepts and procedures, methods for setting standards, benchmarking, monitoring, and controlling for results across healthcare agencies.
Developing informational power and skills to present and explain a business practice plan/budget to a Board of Directors, a CEO, or other administrator.
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NURS 8010: Advanced Community and Family Nursing (Grade: A)
Objectives:
Synthesize and apply selected theories and concepts to the understanding of health and illness in families.
Examine critically the relationship between family function, family dynamics, and health and illness throughout the lifespan.
Describe health behavior patterns and lifestyles that place families at risk for major health problems.
Collaborate with families and other health care providers in formulating case management strategies on behalf of families.
Evaluate appropriate research findings for application to the care of families across the lifespan.
Establish and maintain interdisciplinary and community linkages to enhance advanced nursing practice with families.
Analyze major health problems and their impact on individual family members and the family system.
Implement advanced nursing practice roles on behalf of families.
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NURS 8070: Nursing Research Design and Methods (Grade: A)
Objectives:
Critique components of the research process with respect to scientific inquiry and the development of nursing knowledge.
Apply research methodologies to clinical problems from naturalistic and rationalistic paradigms.
Evaluate research designs for testing hypotheses related to nursing practice. (AACN Essential 4)
Evaluate research designs with respect to threats to internal and external validity.
Compare sampling strategies and factors influencing sample size.
Utilize information technology to access, analyze and disseminate information related to clinical nursing research.
Evaluate the protection of human subjects in research.
Domains Met: 4,
NURS 8610: Pediatric Health Promotion (Grade: )
Objectives:
Formulate and perform comprehensive pediatric primary care for well children from newborn to young adult.
Assess and analyze how family history, genetics, culture, and environment may influence the care of the well child throughout maturation from infancy through young adulthood.
Evaluate and interpret growth & development parameters, perform physical exams, order appropriate diagnostic testing, and analyze the information to diagnose and treat newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
Provide anticipatory health care guidance to families with children from birth through adolescence as part of promoting healthy growth and development
Select and recommend health education, therapeutic procedures, and interventions, and coordinate the care of families with newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
Develop practice initiatives that address health care needs of children and adolescents in response to changes in health status, growth, and developmental changes
Collaborate, consult, plan, refer, follow-up/transition with appropriate professionals regarding pediatric health concerns of specific children/adolescents or of groups of children/adolescents.
Collect and analyze data regarding the effectiveness of healthcare systems in meeting the quantity and quality of care needed by pediatric patients.
Evaluate, synthesize, and apply evidence-based research findings to the care of pediatric patients.
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NURS 8620: Pediatric Common Illness (Grade:
Objectives:
Provide comprehensive nursing care to children with health problems, from infancy through adolescence.
Provide primary care to children, infancy through adolescence, with common or chronic health problems.
Understands how the family history and genetics may influence the care of the chronically ill child.
Provide anticipatory health care guidance to families with children, infancy through adolescence, as part of promoting healthy growth and development.
Develop practice initiatives which address health care needs of children and adolescents in response to changes in health status, growth and developmental changes.
Consult with appropriate professionals regarding health problems of specific children/adolescents or of groups of children/adolescents.
Collect data regarding the effectiveness of health care systems in meeting the quantity and quality of care needed by children/adolescents.
Apply valid research findings to care of children, infancy through adolescence.
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NURS 9060: DNP Outcomes (Grade:
Objectives:
Examine practice approaches to transform healthcare delivery and improve health outcomes for diverse patient populations.
Examine leadership, management, and communication skills within the complex healthcare systems to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, ethical, and fiscally responsible quality care in order to improve patient outcomes.
Evaluates implementation of evidence-based quality improvement initiatives that address practice patterns, healthcare organizations, and variances in health outcomes in order to promote safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered care.
Evaluate methods for assessing outcomes of care, care systems, and quality improvement initiatives using health information systems and patient care technology while honoring the ethical and legal protections related to personal health information and health communications.
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