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.
Domains Met:
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.
Domains Met:
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.
Domain Met:
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.
Domains Met:
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,