COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:
N543: Advanced Diabetes Management. 2 credits. Prerequisites: N510 and N511. This course provides the students with the opportunity to obtain theoretical knowledge on diabetes management across the lifespan. The course focuses on the integration of theoretical knowledge into practice in diabetes management.
N544: Managed Advanced Nurse Practice. 2 credits. Pre-Requisites or co-requisites: N526, 552 OR 553. Students will develop a nurse practice portfolio/plan based on an analysis of the business aspects of health care delivery for solo and partnership arrangements in advanced practice nursing.
N546: Advanced P/CHN I. 4 credits. Pre-Requisites: N500, N523, N556. Co-Requisite: N530. This course introduces concepts that are foundational to advanced P/CHN practice and population health. The community assessment process and program planning and implementation are a major focus of the course. Evidence-based P/CHN interventions at the individual/family, community, and systems levels are analyzed.
N547: Advanced P/CHN Practicum I. 4 credits. Pre-Requisite or Co-Requisite: N546. The focus of this course is on application of foundational concepts of advanced P/CHN practice. Students will conduct a community assessment and based upon the analysis of the assessment, develop a population health program plan that will address the concerns identified in the assessment and incorporate evidence-based P/CHN interventions. Written and oral communication skills are emphasized.
N548: Advanced P/CHN II . 3 credits. Pre-Requisites: N546, N547, N572, N530.
Pre or Co-Requisites: N526, N550, N552. This course focuses on the leadership role of advanced P/CHN practice. Public health and community-based organizational assessment, program monitoring and evaluation, quality improvement, and management of multiple projects are emphasized. Concepts of leadership in public and community health and collaborative interdisciplinary practice are discussed. Health policy, law and ethics as they relate to public health are explored. In addition, P/CHN leadership in rural areas and in disaster/emergency preparedness and management are discussed.
N549: Advanced P/CHN Practicum II. 3 credits. Pre-Requisites: N548. This course provides a capstone experience in advanced P/CHN practice. Students are expected to integrate knowledge from all of their previous coursework into an applied practicum experience in population health.
N550: Global Public Health Issues. 2 credits. Pre-Requisites: N556. This course focuses on population health issues at a global level. Differences in population health status between developing and developed countries are explored. Special emphasis is placed on war as a public health issue and the global impact of AIDS.
N552: Role Development of the CNS. 2 credits. Pre-Requisites: N530. Students will compare and contrast the various roles of the clinical nurse specialist and evaluate those roles as they relate to their individual area of practice. Concepts of professional development are emphasized.
N553: Role Development of the NP. 2 credits. Pre-Requisites: N530. This course emphasizes professional role development of the nurse practitioner. Students will compare and contrast the various roles of the nurse practitioner and evaluate those roles as they relate to the student’s individual planned area of practice.
N563: Education in Advanced Practice. 1-2 credits. The course focuses on theories of teaching and learning as well as curriculum and program development and techniques of evaluation. The educator role of the advanced practice nurse in a variety of settings and with diverse cultural and socioeconomic groups is examined. Nurse practitioners take the course for 1 credit and attend the first 7.5 weeks. (NP student may elect to take the entire course). The Clinical Nurse Specialist students take the course for 2 credits and attend the full 15 weeks. |
