Catalog 2021-2022

NUR - Nursing

NUR 201 Foundations of Nursing

For basic students only. This course introduces students to the foundations of professional nursing practice. Topics include historical, philosophical and theoretical perspectives in nursing. In addition, the concepts of caring, communication, critical thinking and cultural competence are introduced. Emphasis is placed upon self-care, the nursing process, nursing theory, and legal and ethical aspects of nursing.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Acceptance to the nursing program.

NUR 210 Intro to Pathophysiology

For basic students only. This course provides students with a basic understanding of pathophysiology from a structural and functional organizational framework. It builds upon the student's knowledge in the sciences, and explores how alterations in structure and function disrupt the body as a whole. Physiological changes across the lifespan are examined. Students utilize critical thinking to analyze selected diseases for symptomatology, pathophysiology and implications for health care intervention.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Prerequisite or corequisite: NUR 201.

NUR 213 Professional Skills in Nursing

For basic students only.  (NUR 213 and NUR 213L must be taken concurrently).  This course gives students the cognitive knowledge necessary to provide basic, safe, and effective care to diverse populations.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Prerequisite or corequisite: NUR 201

NUR 213L Professional Skills in Nursing Lab

 

For basic students only.  This course provides the student with laboratory and clinical experiences directed toward the acquisition of foundational knowledge and skills to give safe, effective patient care to diverse populations.  Focus is placed on the application of foundational knowledge learned in NUR 213.  Experiences include lab and interactive computer activities, simulation experiences, and supervised clinical learning at selected health care facilities.

 

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisites

Prerequisite or corequisite: NUR 201, NUR 213

NUR 218 Health Assessment

For basic students only. (NUR 218 and 218L must be taken concurrently.) This course provides the basic nursing student with knowledge and skills to obtain and record a health history and physical examination. Assessing the level of health and wellness of clients throughout the lifespan also is included. The course provides both a didactic and laboratory experience.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites

Prerequisite or corequisite: NUR 201

NUR 218L Health Assessment Lab

Credit Hours: 0

NUR 314 Nursing Care of the Developing Family

For basic students only.  In this course, knowledge from the physical, biological, behavioral and social sciences as well as the humanities, is applied for the provision of safe nursing care of child-bearing families.  In a classroom setting, methodologies including case studies and interactive activities form the basis for the student to use the nursing process as a framework for addressing developmental change, illness prevention, health promotion, maintenance and restoration in child-bearing families.  Particular emphasis will be placed on the prenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period. 

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisites

Completion of 200 level nursing core

Corequisites

NUR 314L.

NUR 314L Nursing Care of the Developing Family Laboratory

For basic students only. The course provides students the opportunity to apply the concepts associated with responses of families during the childbearing cycle through a combination of laboratory and supervised clinical practice activities. Clinical experiences occur under faculty supervision in a variety of childbearing patient care settings.

Credit Hours: 1

Corequisites

NUR 314.

NUR 315 Nursing Care of Children

For basic students only. This course presents the essential concepts, theories and developmental processes vital in understanding the health concerns and problems of children, adolescents and their families. Students examine family-centered nursing care in the health promotion and health maintenance of infants, children and adolescents.

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisites

Completion of 200 level nursing core

Corequisites

NUR 315L

NUR 315L Nursing Care of Children Laboratory

For basic students only. This course provides students the opportunity to apply the essential concepts, theories and processes useful in meeting the health and developmental needs of children and their families. Learning experiences are provided to emphasize the role of the nurse and continuity of care in meeting the needs of children and families in acute care and community settings.

Credit Hours: 1

Corequisites

NUR 315.

NUR 317 Nursing Care of Adult and Older Adult

For basic students only. This course explores the concepts and theories necessary to promote and restore health of adults and older adults with biological problems and their related physiological and psychological responses. There is an integration of both physical changes and developmental tasks with the implementation of care considerations of patients throughout the life span.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites

Completion of 200 level nursing core. Prerequisite or corequisite: NUR 317L, NUR 345, NUR 347

NUR 317L Nursing Care of Adult and Older Adult Laboratory

This course provides students the opportunity to apply concepts and processes learned in the classroom to help adults and older adults in the promotion and maintenance of health. Students examine both adults and older adults from physical, social, psychological and developmental perspectives through a combination of supervised clinical practice activities. Clinical experiences will occur under faculty supervision in a variety of both acute and long-term patient care settings. 140 clinical hours are provided during the semester.
Credit Hours: 2

Corequisites

NUR 317

NUR 322 Contemporary Issues in Health Care

For basic and pre-MSN students. The health care delivery system is examined from political, economic, legal and ethical perspectives with particular emphasis on the written analysis of legal and ethical dilemmas related to the practice of nursing.

Credit Hours: 3
(W)

NUR 330 Health Caring Communication

This course introduces essential skills and techniques for effective communication and relationship building in nursing and other healthcare fields. Based on assertive communication for quality and patient safety, students will: examine step-by-step guidelines to establish relationships with patients, families and colleagues; reflect on how personal style affects communication; demonstrate an understanding of the connection between communication and caring; and explore strategies for self-care to build confidence for personal and professional effectiveness. Specific situations will be explored such as working with people who are distressed or aggressive; managing team conflict; confrontation; working in groups; electronic communication; and professional dress and demeanor as nonverbal communication.
Credit Hours: 3
(W)

NUR 345 Pharmacology

For basic students only. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of pharmacology and therapeutics in the treatment of illness, and the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health in patients across the lifespan. The major drug categories are reviewed with emphasis placed on the therapeutic use, action and adverse reaction, as well as benefits and risks to the drug therapy. This prepares the health professional for safe, therapeutic pharmacological interventions.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites

Completion of 200 level nursing core

Corequisites

NUR 317

NUR 346 Expressive Art in Healing

Subtitle: Health Promotion through the Arts. This course examines creativity through a variety of expressive art forms to promote healing for clients and to heal the healer, an imperative for holistic nurses. Various art forms are explored, including visual arts, mask-making, visual and written journals, storytelling, movement and others. Students experience expressive arts through guided exercises and art practices.

Credit Hours: 3
(A)

NUR 347 Clinical Human Nutrition

For basic students only. This course provides information on the fundamentals of nutrition and application. Nutritional needs across the lifespan and nutritional support in selected disorders are specifically discussed.

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisites

Completion of 200 level nursing core

NUR 392 Transcultural Healthcare in Latin America

All students: permission of instructor. This course allows students to travel to a selected Latin American country to apply community health promotion and disease prevention concepts in a trans-cultural environment.

Credit Hours: 3
(IG)

Prerequisites

200 level courses (Basic BSN), or HSC 200 or HSC 236 and HSC 350 or PSY 211 (ESC students).

NUR 410 Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan

For basic students only. This course examines the biological, environmental, cultural and interpersonal factors that predispose individuals to mental illness. Mental health is viewed as the continuous adaptation to the inevitable stressors of life, and deviations are a result of the inability of individuals to adapt to life's stressors. Individuals are viewed holistically across the lifespan.

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisites

Completion of 300 level nursing core

Corequisites

NUR 410L

NUR 410L Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan Laboratory

For basic students only. The course provides students the opportunity to apply the concepts of mental health nursing through a combination of laboratory and supervised clinical practice. Clinical experiences occur under faculty supervision in a variety of settings in which patients and families with acute and chronic mental health problems may be found.

Credit Hours: 1

Corequisites

NUR 410.

NUR 412 Nursing Care of the Medically-Complex Patient

For basic students only. This course examines advanced concepts related to patients experiencing complex multi-system biological problems and related physiological and psychological responses.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites

Completion of 300 level nursing core. Prerequisites or corequisites: NUR 412L

NUR 412L Nursing Care of the Medically-Complex Patient Laboratory

For basic students only. The course provides the opportunity for students to apply advanced concepts and processes required to help adults with complex multi-system problems. Students examine adults from physical, social, psychological and developmental perspectives through a combination of laboratory and supervised clinical practice activities. Clinical experiences occur under faculty supervision in a variety of acute care settings.

Credit Hours: 2

Corequisites

NUR 412.

NUR 415 Leadership and Management

For basic students, pre-MSN students, or with instructor approval. This course examines key concepts in leadership and management within the health care system. Emphasis is on organizing and delivering health care, assessing financial resources, planning, managing human resources, improving quality and promoting positive change.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

For basic students, completion of 300-level nursing core

NUR 422 Principles of Community Health Nursing

For basic students and pre-MSN students. This course focuses on the community health system by examining it from historical, organizational and political perspectives. Emphases are on analysis of epidemiological trends and the relevance of community assessment to community health nursing practice. The impact of local, state and federal legislation is explored related to the impact on community health.

Credit Hours: 3

Corequisites

NUR 422L

NUR 422L Community Health Laboratory

For basic students only. The course provides the opportunity to synthesize and apply cognitive knowledge of community health nursing. Through supervised clinical practice, students provide culturally competent care to individuals, families and groups in a variety of community agencies. This course includes 4 hours of clinical per week plus a class seminar. For those students enrolled in the travel section of NUR 422L, 40-60 clinical hours will be gained through education abroad; the additional requisite hours will be completed in a local community setting plus a class seminar.

Credit Hours: 2

Corequisites

NUR 422

NUR 423 Palliative Care

This course will review the key concepts of palliative care and end-of-life nursing care. Topics covered utilizing the End-of-Life Nursing Consortium (ELNEC) training modules will include: pain and symptom management, ethical issues, cultural considerations, communication techniques, care during the final hours of life, and loss, grief and bereavement. In addition, the practice of palliative care in special populations and in various settings will be discussed. This course will be highly interactive and will include opportunities to hear from guest speakers that are experts in the field of palliative and end-of-life care.  

Credit Hours: 3
(W)

Prerequisites

Completion of 200 level nursing core.

NUR 430 Holistic Care: Alternative Therapies for Self-Care and Professional Practice

Open to non-nursing students. This course examines alternative health practices from a cross-cultural perspective. Healing interventions such as acupuncture, biofeedback, homeopathy, meditation, and traditional Chinese and herbal medicine are studied and demonstrated by practitioners. Emphases are on the historical underpinnings of holistic health practices and the political/economic ramifications on global health. This course also compares and contrasts nontraditional modalities of health care with industrial models.

Credit Hours: 3
(IG) (NW)

NUR 432 Introduction to Nursing Research

For basic students and pre-MSN students.  Students will learn about discipline-specific writing and research processes for nursing studies and engage nursing research through formal and informal writing work.

Credit Hours: 3
(W)

Prerequisites

For basic students: NUR 201 and statistics

NUR 441 Introduction to Nursing Informatics

For basic students only. This course introduces the novice nursing student to the field of nursing informatics. Nursing informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science with information technology and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, and knowledge to support nursing practice in providing safe patient care.  Focus of this course includes identifying, researching, and presenting a proposal to update a specific health care technology device with the primary focus of patient safety.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Completion of 200 level nursing core: NUR 201, NUR 210, NUR 213, NUR 213L, NUR 218

NUR 450 Independent Study in Nursing

An independent study that provides students with an opportunity to pursue a topic or project under the guidance of a nursing faculty member. By permission of instructor and department director. May include a practicum.

Credit Hours: 1-3

NUR 452 Clinical Preceptorship

For basic students only. This course focuses on the integration, analysis, and synthesis of knowledge acquired throughout the nursing curriculum. The student utilizes knowledge from the physical, biological and behavioral sciences to provide safe, high quality, culturally competent nursing care. Critical thinking skills are further developed. The student incorporates principles of teaching and learning to promote, maintain and restore health.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites

NUR 412, NUR 412L

NUR 454 Senior Seminar

For basic students only. This seminar course addresses professional role transition and assists the student in preparing for the NCLEX-RN licensure examination.

Credit Hours: 3

Corequisites

NUR 415

NUR 455 Selected Topics in Nursing

For elective credit only. An in-depth study of a selected nursing topic of concern to students and faculty. Emphasis is on contemporary issues affecting nursing and health care.

Credit Hours: 1-3

NUR 600 Scholarly and Professional Communication in Nursing

This course focuses on writing and communication skills for nursing professionals. Students will learn APA style and how to apply these rules in writing and communication in developing evidence-based practice (EBP) manuscripts and scholarly nursing presentations. Students will practice proper techniques for properly citing sources, preparing an EBP manuscript, developing PICOT statement and expressing material clearly and accurately. Must be taken in first academic term.

Credit Hours: 2

NUR 601 Professional Issues and the Nurse Practitioner

For graduate students only.  This course focuses on current practice issues related to the emerging role of the nurse practitioner in health care delivery.  Emphases are on critical review and analysis or role implementation strategies, and role performance as a clinician, educator, case manager, leader, consultant and colleague.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Prerequisite or Corerequisite: NUR 600 or GRE equivalent.

NUR 618 Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Reasoning

For graduate students only. This course builds on the competencies acquired in a baccalaureate nursing assessment course. Emphasis is placed on advanced practice assessment skills including: clinical reasoning and advanced physical assessment; analysis and synthesis of assessment data; demonstration of competency in oral and written presentation of comprehensive and focused assessment findings for clients across the life span. An evidence-based practice framework will be utilized.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

NUR 601

Corequisites

NUR 618

NUR 618L Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Reasoning Lab

For graduate students only. This course builds on the competencies acquired in a baccalaureate nursing assessment course. Emphasis is placed on clinical application of the advanced practice assessment skills including: clinical reasoning and advanced physical assessment, analysis and synthesis of assessment; demonstration of competency in oral and written presentation of findings for clients across the lifespan. Students will practice and implement concepts, principles and content covered in NUR 618. An evidence-based practice framework will be utilized.
Credit Hours: 1

Prerequisites

NUR 601

Corequisites

NUR 618

NUR 620 Knowledge Generation and Validation in Advanced Practice

For graduate students only. Emphasizes knowledge development in nursing science through concurrent inductive analysis of models/methods of theory generation and deductive analysis of models/methods of theory validation through focus on quantitative and qualitative research processes. Provides opportunity for development of a theory linked research proposal that will support evidence-based advanced practice.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Prerequisites or corequisites: NUR 601 and statistics.

NUR 621 Primary Care Procedures

This course covers the ethical, legal, and safe standards of care in selected clinical topics in NP practice. Topics include, but are not limited to primary care procedures, emergency and wilderness medicine. Procedures include: wound closures (sutures, staples, wound adhesives); local anesthesia, digital blocks, splinting, casting, HEENT procedures (fluorescein staining, foreign body removal, Morgan lens irrigation, Wood’s light/Slit lamp); cerumen disimpaction/irrigation; nasal fracture management, epistaxis; toenail removal; I&D, splinter removal, X-ray interpretation; reduction of nursemaid’s elbow. Florida specific injuries cover stings, bites, fishhook removal, tick removal and snakes/spiders/frogs.
Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisites

Prerequisites or corequisites: NUR 618 and NUR 618L. Permission of MSN program director required.

NUR 623 Palliative Care

This course will review the key concepts of palliative care and end-of-life nursing care. Topics covered utilizing the End-of-Life Nursing Consortium (ELNEC) training modules will include: pain and symptom management, ethical issues, cultural considerations, communication techniques, care during the final hours of life, and loss, grief and bereavement. In addition, the practice of palliative care in special populations and in various settings will be discussed. This course will be highly interactive and will include opportunities to hear from guest speakers that are experts in the field of palliative and end-of-life care.  

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Graduate student status.

NUR 645 Clinical Pharmacology

For graduate students only. This course emphasizes the clinical application of the major classifications of drugs and the development of knowledge needed by the advanced practice nurse to assure that drug therapy is based on sound therapeutic judgments and decision-making processes. A lifespan approach is utilized to address client needs of drug therapy in primary, secondary and tertiary care settings. Statutory authority for prescription writing protocols is examined.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

NUR 655. Prerequisites or corequisites: NUR 601, NUR 618, NUR 620, and NUR 647.

NUR 647 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Families and Communities

For graduate students only.   This course provides the opportunity for the advanced practice nurse to understand and integrate health promotion and disease prevention concepts in a patient centered, culturally appropriate way.  This includes principles of planning, implementation, and evaluation of evidenced based care to individuals, families, and communities. 

Credit Hours: 3

NUR 655 Advanced Pathophysiology

For graduate students only. This course addresses the concepts that contribute to alterations in health status of clients throughout the life cycle. Concepts of focus include the cellular environment, altered tissue biology, and principles of genetics as they apply to health status, immunity and cellular proliferation.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Prerequisites or corequisites: NUR 601

NUR 675 Practicum in Adult Primary Care I

This practicum course provides the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills learned in the classroom in caring for adults in primary care settings. This practicum includes a minimum of 224 hours of supervised clinical practice in a variety of settings. Students may enroll in no more than one practicum courses in a single academic term.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites

Corequisites or NUR 677

NUR 676 Practicum in Older Adult Primary Care

This practicum course provides the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills learned in the classroom in caring for the older adult in primary care settings. This practicum includes a minimum of 224 hours of supervised clinical practice in a variety of settings. Students may enroll in no more than one practicum courses in a single academic term.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites

Pre- or corequisite: NUR 680.

NUR 677 Healthcare Management of the Adult Client

This course emphasizes primary care management of common acute and chronic health problems of adult clients.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

NUR 618, 645 and 655.

NUR 680 Healthcare Management of the Older Adult

This course prepares students in the management of normal and common health pattern variations pertaining to older adult health care in the primary care setting. It provides students with a theoretical base to assess, diagnose and manage the care of older adults across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on collaborative management to achieve desired outcomes. Students will focus on promotion, maintenance and restoration of the older adult’s health patterns. Culturally competent, holistic, ethical, age and gender specific and risk stratified care will be discussed. Evidence based practice will be the basis for care management.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

NUR 618, NUR 645 and NUR 655.

NUR 682 Healthcare Management of Women

This course prepares students in the management of normal and common health pattern variations pertaining to women’s health care in the primary care setting. It provides students with a theoretical base to assess, diagnose and manage the care of women across the lifespan.  Emphasis is placed on collaborative management to achieve desired outcomes. Students will focus on promotion, maintenance and restoration of women’s health patterns. Culturally competent, holistic, ethical, age and gender specific including risk stratified care will be discussed. Evidence based practice will be the basis for care management.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

NUR 618 and NUR 655. Pre- or corequisite: NUR 645.

NUR 685 Practicum in Infants, Children and Adolescent Primary Care

This practicum experience provides the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills learned in the classroom in caring for infants, children and adolescents in primary care settings. This practicum includes 224 hours of supervised clinical practice in a variety of settings. Students may enroll in no more than one practicum courses in a single academic term.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites

Prerequisite or corequisite: NUR 687.

NUR 686 Practicum in Women's Primary Care

This practicum course provides the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills learned in the classroom in caring for women in primary care settings. This practicum includes a minimum of 224 hours of supervised clinical practice in a variety of settings. Students may enroll in no more than one practicum courses in a single academic term.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites

Prerequisite or corequisite: NUR 682.

NUR 687 Healthcare Management of Infants, Children and Adolescents

This course emphasizes primary care management of common acute and chronic health problems of infants, children and adolescents.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

NUR 618, 645 and 655.

NUR 695 Selected Topics in Nursing

An in-depth study of a selected nursing topic of concern to students and faculty. Emphasis is on contemporary issues of global relevance affecting nursing and health care.

Credit Hours: 1-3

Prerequisites

Permission of instructor and department director.

NUR 700 Introduction to DNP Role & Clinical Inquiry

For DNP students. Introduction to the essential elements of the Doctor of Nursing Practice and emphasis on personal development as an APN clinical scholar. DNP students will be introduced to the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes to continually improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems. Content will introduce students to the concepts of the scholarly project and its purpose in addressing a current clinical issue in the healthcare system.
Credit Hours: 1

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program.

NUR 701 Clinical Epidemiology for APNs

For DNP students. This course provides APN students with an overview of morbidity and mortality surveillance through understanding disease etiology, distribution and control. The course focuses on disease surveillance through both descriptive and analytical methods. Epidemiological methods of study will be examined in the application of epidemiological and bio-statistical skills.
Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program.

Corequisites

NUR 700

NUR 702 APN Care of At-Risk Vulnerable Populations

For DNP students. The focus of the course is on management of healthcare problems experienced by at-risk vulnerable populations across the lifespan. Students analyze social determinants that impact access to care, models of healthcare delivery and health outcomes. The impact of issues such as mistreatment, abuse, homelessness, and end-of-life concerns related to healthcare needs are examined.

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program.

Corequisites

NUR 700

NUR 703 Research Translation for APN Clinical Practice

For DNP students. The course is designed to develop the knowledge and skill for systematic inquiry about clinical phenomena, interventions, and issues using best evidence to guide translation of knowledge into practice. Research and quality improvement studies will be reviewed and evaluated for scientific merit, potential for translation into practice, and impact on quality health care and outcomes. The course enables students to build a scientific foundation for ongoing critical self-reflection for improving their practice following a systematic appraisal of available evidence.
Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program. NUR 700 and NUR 701.

NUR 704 Healthcare Informatics and Information Systems for APN Clinical Practice

For DNP students. In this course students will explore the use of information systems and technology applicable to advanced practice in guiding evidence-based practice, providing program and outcome evaluation, quality improvement initiatives, improving clinical workflow and administrative decision making with an emphasis on providing leadership within healthcare systems. Discussion of the legal, ethical and cultural issues as they relate to the use of information technology for improvement of healthcare will be integrated throughout the course.
Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program. NUR 700.

NUR 705 Healthcare Leadership and Management for APNs

For DNP students. This course focuses on development of the APN’s role in creating and implementing organizational change. Emphasis is placed on strategic thinking, influence, negotiation and power strategies required for effective leadership in contemporary health delivery systems. Various strategies in management of change in health care environments including the associated management of conflict, change, and control of risk within an organizational context are examined.
Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program. NUR 700.

NUR 706 DNP Project I: PICOT

For DNP students. This is the first of four sequential courses in the development of the scholarly project. The course emphasizes the assessment and identification of a nursing practice issue (utilizing PICOT format) focused on a population of interest that lays the groundwork for development of the culminating DNP scholarly project. The student will initiate the development of the scholarly project prospectus and apply clinical scholarship to improve patient and population health outcomes. This course is associated with a minimum of 112 practice hours in an area related to the practice inquiry.
Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program. NUR 703.

NUR 707 Health Policy and Advocacy for APN Clinical Practice

For DNP students. In this course, students examine current issues in health care policy in the U.S. and the role of APNs as leaders in effecting policy change. The influence of different political and economic conditions on health policy is analyzed within the context of historical, socioeconomic, ethical, legal and global perspectives. Students will engage in policy analysis and strategic planning for influencing positive change in health care policy.
Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program. NUR 700.

NUR 708 DNP Project II: Project Plan

For DNP students. This is the second of four sequential courses in the development of the scholarly project. The focus is on the design of the scholarly project proposal that addresses a specific problem of interest. Students will utilize evidence based findings and practice inquiry skills to synthesize and integrate newly acquired knowledge in the development of their project proposal. The student will continue the development of the scholarly project proposal which includes an oral defense and IRB submissions. This course is associated with a minimum of 112 practice hours in an area related to the practice inquiry.

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program. NUR 706.

NUR 709 Genomics and APN Clinical Practice

For DNP students. This course focuses on the genetics influences and determinants affecting the health of individuals, families and communities. The relationship of genetics and genomics to health, disease prevention, screening, diagnostics, prognostics, selection of treatment, and monitoring of treatment effectiveness will be explored. The emerging role of pharmacogenomics in the individualization of drug therapy is also explored. Throughout the course, ethical, legal and social implications of genomic knowledge are appraised.
Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program. NUR 700.

NUR 710 DNP Project III: Implementation Phase

For DNP students. This is the third of four sequential courses in the development of the scholarly project. The focus of this course is on the implementation of the proposed plan with evidence-based interventions to address the selected problem of interest. This course is associated with a minimum of 168 practice hours in an area related to the practice inquiry.
Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program. NUR 708.

NUR 711 DNP Project IV: Evaluation and Dissemination

For DNP students. This is the final course for the DNP program of study. The focus of this course is in the evaluation and dissemination of the project outcomes. Completion of the scholarly project demonstrates the student’s attainment of the program outcomes and provides evidence of the student’s knowledge and expertise as an advanced practice nurse at the practice doctorate level. This course is associated with a minimum of 112 practice hours in an area related to the practice inquiry.
Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program. NUR 710.

NUR 720 Leadership in Changing Healthcare Environments

For DNP students. This course prepares the DNP to assume leadership in healthcare transformation. It will provide the foundation necessary to enter into the highest level of advanced practice nursing to develop practice that benefits patients, families and populations. Topics covered will be organizational and systems thinking, healthcare financing, business skills, quality management and interprofessional collaboration.
Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program. NUR 700 and NUR 701.

NUR 730 Nursing Education in 21st Century Nursing Education

For DNP students. Learners examine issues related to nursing program development within the complex and highly regulated environment of nursing education. With a focus on regulatory and accrediting bodies, learners determine the best methods for designing, evaluating, and improving nursing education programs to meet the diverse needs of industry and other stakeholders in 21st century healthcare. Learners explore the nature of leadership roles in public and private institutions including the leadership characteristics, skills needed, and outcomes desired of educators at the dean, department chair, faculty, and staff development educator level. Practicum hours (50) in an academic or clinical site required.
Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP Program. NUR 700.

NUR 795 Special Topics in Advanced Nursing Practice

For DNP students only. A lecture and/or practicum course offered at the discretion of the nursing faculty. Subject may focus on a topic of current interest in advance practice nursing, training in a specific area of the field, or a topic that is of interest to a particular group of students. May be repeated for credit if topic is different.
Credit Hours: 1-3

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP program. Consent of department chair or DNP program director.

NUR 799 Independent Study in Advanced Nursing Practice

For DNP students only. The course consists of directed readings and research on a topic of interest to the student. Subject matter must be determined through student-faculty consultation. May include practicum hours. Independent studies may be taken with any full-time professor in the DNP program and requires consent of department chair. May be repeated for variable credit of 1-3 hours per course.
Credit Hours: 1-3

Prerequisites

Admission to DNP program. Permission of department chair or DNP program director.