This course provides an overview of the unique health care needs of rural and Indigenous populations. Students will engage in learning activities that foster cultural awareness and cultural humility.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall.

Students perform a person-centered health assessment incorporating standards of care and safety and communication concepts. Normal and abnormal assessment findings are differentiated.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 2.5.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students demonstrate foundational nursing knowledge and skills to implement a holistic plan of care across the lifespan. Learners communicate using therapeutic techniques to establish person-centered relationships applicable to various settings.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 4.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students explore the research process and ethical considerations in conducting research. Students collaboratively engage in the evidence-based nursing practice process to integrate research findings into person-centered care and improve clinical outcomes. Students enhance their abilities to effectively convey research findings and collaborate within healthcare teams.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students use knowledge of alterations in body system functions associated with diseases, abnormal conditions and injury. Principles such as genetics, environment, cellular adaptation, and immunity are also introduced to form the foundational knowledge to provide safe, entry-level quality, person-centered care.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students build on foundational coursework to apply safe, evidence based pharmacological therapies across diverse cultures and lifespans emphasizing safe entry-level practice.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students begin the development of the senior thesis proposal through the study of relevant topics, written assignments, readings, and discussions related to the research process and the role of the nurse scientist. It is the first in a series of two junior level Honors Seminars.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students continue the development of the senior thesis proposal through the study of relevant topics, written assignments, readings, and discussions related to the research process and the role of the nurse scientist. It is the second in a series of two junior level Honors Seminars.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students explore health promotion and disease prevention across the lifespan for individuals, families, and communities. Students apply self-reflection, evidence-based research, theories/models, lived experiences, and a strengths-based approach to promote health and evaluate how systems and organizations shape health outcomes and social determinants of health.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students provide comprehensive care for childbearing individuals and families throughout antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn periods. Students integrate family-centered care, evidence-based practice, teamwork, collaboration, and informatics to promote health, support development, manage transitions, and enhance health outcomes while ensuring safety and health equity.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students perform nursing care for infants, children, and adolescents, integrating principles of childhood growth and development and family-centered care. Students design and implement evidence-based care for children with congenital disorders and acute and chronic conditions that emphasizes health promotion across care settings to optimize outcomes.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This course engages learners in providing care for individuals with mental health disorders. Learners implement safety practices, deliver psychoeducation related to psychopharmacology needed for safe and effective care, and develop foundational therapeutic communication skills to interact with this population.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 5.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students apply principles of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and the nursing process to plan and deliver safe, high-quality person-centered care to Medical-Surgical patients. Students demonstrate clinical skills while refining professional competencies in healthcare experiences.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.8.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students examine principles of gerontological nursing including physiological aging processes, multimorbidity management, pharmacological considerations, cognitive decline, and evidence-based interventions for older adults. Students develop skills related to assessment and care coordination across different care settings, while considering ethical, legal, and policy issues in elder care.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Clinical remediation is a required review of clinical competencies and professional role behaviors following interruption in the baccalaureate nursing program. an individualized learning contract will be developed. Demonstration of current competencies for safe care is required for continued progression. Department consent required.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Learners examine the professional nurse's role in evolving healthcare systems. Learners reflect on nursing history and theory, analyze current practice standards and issues, and envision future possibilities in professional nursing practice. Learners demonstrate teamwork through completion of a group project.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Summer.

This course develops core competencies in teamwork and collaboration for incoming health professions students. Students will learn in interprofessional teams coached by interprofessional faculty, develop essential communication skills and processes for simultaneous and sequential teams, and provide feedback on individual and team performance.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 1.

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course develops foundational knowledge and basic practical skills to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical issues and structural elements that impact health in clinical practice. This course integrates interprofessional collaboration and teamwork to teach students ethical theory and reasoning, professional ethics and its historical origins, and approaches to health care decision-making. Through small group activities, discussion boards, didactic modules and clinical cases, students will practice navigating ethical dilemmas and identifying structural elements that impact healthcare access, delivery of care, and patient outcomes. Students will reflect on professional roles and responsibilities and demonstrate interprofessional collaboration.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 1.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Students explore the professional nurses' role through critical analysis across nursing history, theory, practice standards, ethical-legal parameters and emerging issues and trends. Emphasis is on student preparation for transitioning into the professional role enabling independent, interdependent, and collaborative functions.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 4.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students execute data collection and analysis of the senior thesis through the study of relevant topics, written assignments, readings, and discussions related to the research process and the role of the nurse scientist. It is the first of two senior level Honors Seminars.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students complete a senior thesis and disseminate findings through the study of relevant topics, written assignments, readings, and discussions related to the research process and the role of the nurse scientist. It is the second of two senior level Honors Seminars.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students incorporate evidence-based interventions for complex adult patients, delivering person-centered care in multidisciplinary acute settings. They create and implement care plans by utilizing informatics, evaluating outcomes, collaborating effectively and refining communication skills while forming their nurse identity.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Course focuses on community-oriented & population-focused nursing practice. Using evidence-based practice & public health concepts; students assess, plan, implement, and evaluate health interventions to individuals, families, and populations. Emphasis is on environment, social justice, advocacy, interprofessional teamwork, and cultural awareness. Successful completion of beginning and intermediate Nursing courses.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 5.5.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Course introduces research processes and application in EBP. RN students learn to critically evaluate research findings for application in safe, quality nursing practice. Nursing theories and ways of knowing are explored regarding their impact on development of nursing science.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This course explores the influence of historical/philosophical foundations, issues, and future trends on professional practice and role development in RN-BS nursing education. Examines ethical decision-making, critical thinking, reflective practice, and accountability within the ethical and legal parameters of nursing practice.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 4.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Understand and apply knowledge and skills in information and communication technologies to enhance the delivery of quality patient care. Concepts of data, information, knowledge and wisdom, to inform care delivery are examined. Professional roles and responsibilities will be explored.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Understand and apply QSEN knowledge, skills, and attitudes to improve and evaluate care delivery within a health care microsystem. Concepts and processes of quality improvement based on evidence are identified. Teamwork/communication/collaboration and transitions of care are explored.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Learners will integrate health promotion and disease prevention strategies in population-focused nursing emphasizing the impact of social determinants of health, advocacy and health outcomes for all. Learners will expand their ability to collaborate with diverse communities to improve population health outcomes.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This course provides the foundation needed to provide oversight and accountability for care delivery across a variety of settings; continuing development as a leader/innovator in improving patient care; and a solid understanding of health care policy, economics, and complex organizations.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Explores nursing leadership roles in promoting positive patient outcomes. Uses evidence-based practice to facilitate clinical reasoning/inquiry in providing safe,quality, person-centered care. Professional development is promoted through transformational leadership & management competencies. Includes capstone quality improvement project.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students integrate previous coursework to support the transition to professional registered nurse. Through clinical immersion, students prepare for independent practice through application of evidence-based decision-making, for safe and person-centered care. Students develop leadership and care management skills that strengthen their ability to navigate complex healthcare environments.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students perform a person-centered health assessment incorporating standards of care, safety, and communication concepts; normal and abnormal assessment findings are differentiated, with emerging synthesis of their clinical significance and relevance to midwifery care.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 2.5.

Typically Offered: Summer.

Clinical course that focuses on demonstrating competence in the Advanced Practice role with a selected population.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 8.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Clinical Nurse Specialist students begin to gather and organize data to base clinical decisions upon and promote moral agency. Students begin to advocate for patient and family health outcomes. Consultation and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team is emphasized.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Clinical Nurse Specialist students demonstrate clinical decision making, refine diagnoses, and explore the role to Influence of health systems change. Advocacy and moral agency for patient and family health outcomes continues. Consultation and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team are demonstrated.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Clinical Nurse Specialist students adapt clinical decisions to manage ill and aging patients. Students advocate for advancing patient and family health outcomes. Advocacy and moral agency for health outcomes are incorporated into consultation and collaboration with an interdisciplinary teamwork.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Clinical Nurse Specialist students formulate clinical decisions to manage ill and aging patients and patient and family health outcomes. Students practice as moral agents and are expected to manage health systems initiatives in consultation and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

PNP-PC students collect patient data, perform exams, interpret screenings, and document findings. They collaborate with teams, communicate professionally, and build relationships with patients and families to promote shared decision-making and person-centered care.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

PNP-PC students demonstrate clinical reasoning by analyzing patient data to diagnose and guide care for patients. They provide interprofessional leadership and apply evidence-based, person-centered approaches to enhance pediatric health outcomes across various settings.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Summer.

PNP-PC students make evidence-based clinical decisions and develop person-centered care plans for pediatric patients. Students enhance documentation skills, lead interprofessional teams, and promote therapeutic relationships to support shared decision-making and person-centered care in primary care settings.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall.

PNP-PC students cultivate skills in clinical decision-making for children with chronic illnesses and medical complexity. The course focuses on modeling the nurse practitioner role by leading interprofessional teams, fostering ethical relationships, and providing person-centered care.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

ACPNP learners begin acquiring APRN practice skills with a focus on gathering data and organizing information for use in diagnostic reasoning. Emphasis on acquiring advanced communication skills for interdisciplinary person-centered care of stable patients.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

ACPNP learners acquire APRN practice skills, focusing on data gathering and organizing information for use in diagnostic reasoning. Emphasis on using advanced communication skills for interdisciplinary and holistic person-centered care of stable patients or those with minor acute illness.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Summer.

ACPNP learners provide direct advanced nursing care integrating patient data and using clinical judgement to manage and support health outcomes for acute, complex, and chronically ill pediatric patients. Interdisciplinary person centered care is emphasized.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall.

ACPNP learners use a systematic approach to provide advanced nursing care exhibiting competence and building independence in clinical judgement for patients with acute, chronic, complex, and critical illness. Interdisciplinary person centered care is emphasized.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

ACPNP learners evaluate and adapt therapeutic interventions, provide direct management for stable and unstable acute, complex, critical, and chronic conditions, and advocate for improved patient/family outcomes through leadership on interdisciplinary teams and/or nursing initiatives.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Summer.

The FNP learner will apply foundational clinical skills in assessment, diagnosis, and patient communication while identifying physiological and psychological health needs. Emphasis is on collaboration, ethical documentation, and evidence-based care planning in the clinical environment.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

The FNP learner will integrate knowledge of anatomy and pathophysiology with clinical findings to develop differential diagnoses, perform advanced physical exams, use interview techniques to gather patient-centered data, collaborate with healthcare teams, and document patient encounters effectively.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Summer.

The FNP learner will synthesize knowledge of anatomy and pathophysiology with clinical findings to formulate differential diagnoses, apply clinical guidelines to create evidence-based care plans, evaluate resources for decision-making, analyze patient-centered data, and develop treatment plans in collaboration with the healthcare team.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

The FNP learner will integrate knowledge of anatomy and pathophysiology to develop differential diagnoses, evaluate and apply clinical guidelines for evidence-based care, formulate therapeutic management plans, synthesize and analyze diagnostic data, and collaborate with the interprofessional team to manage complex cases, managing time effectively to optimize patient outcomes.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

Learners apply knowledge from didactic courses and develop the skills and attitudes necessary to achieve an overall apprentice-level competency in the midwifery management process in antepartum, postpartum, well-woman, gynecologic, preconception, lactation, and primary care settings.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

Learners apply knowledge from didactic courses and develop the skills and attitudes necessary to achieve an overall apprentice-level competency in the midwifery management process in intrapartum, postpartum, acute primary care, and newborn care in inpatient settings.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Summer.

Learners independently apply knowledge, skills, and attitudes to achieve safe, beginning practitioner level competence in the midwifery management process within the full scope of midwifery practice in both inpatient and outpatient settings, fulfilling all areas of the Midwifery Core Competencies.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall.

Learners apply knowledge, clinical skills and behaviors attained from didactic coursework to developnecessary skills to deliver and manage with support the reproductive and sexual health of all personsand primary care of women in the ambulatory setting.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

Learners synthesize knowledge, clinical skills and behaviors attained from didactic and clinical coursework into competently and independently managing the reproductive and sexual health of all persons and primary care of women in the ambulatory setting.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Summer.

Learners synthesize knowledge, clinical skills and behaviors attained from didactic and clinical coursework into competently and independently managing the reproductive and sexual health of all persons and primary care of women in the ambulatory setting.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall.

Culminating clinical experiences of the Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program, this experience combines all areas of core competencies and in consultation with the preceptor. Pre: NURS 5963

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

The learner will apply novice clinical skills in assessment, diagnosis, and communication to identify and treat patient's holistic health needs. A beginning understanding of complex clinical environments including comprehensive documentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and evidence based care planning is emphasized.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

The learner will further refine clinical skills in assessment, diagnosis, and communication to identify and treat patient's holistic health needs. A deepening understanding of complex clinical environments including comprehensive documentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and evidence based care planning is emphasized.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

The learner will synthesize didactic knowledge with clinical findings to generate differential diagnoses, apply clinical guidelines to create evidence based care plans, evaluate resources for decision-making, analyze patient-centered data, and develop treatment plans with the healthcare team.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Summer.

The learner will compose plans of care integrating didactic knowledge with clinical findings including differential diagnoses, application of clinical guidelines, utilization of diagnostic data and evidence based resources to create a therapeutic plan. Collaboration and time management is emphasized.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

AGACNP learners develop clinical skills in patient care, focusing on assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and evidence-based interventions for acute and chronic conditions. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary collaboration and holistic care to manage diverse patient scenarios effectively.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Prereq: NURS 6243, NURS 6222, NURS 6761, AND NURS 6590 with a B or better.

Typically Offered: Spring.

AGACNP learners advance competencies in patient-centered care, applying diagnostic data to evidence-based decisions. Emphasis is on clinical assessment, diagnostic reasoning, care coordination, and interdisciplinary collaboration, fostering holistic care for patients with acute and chronic conditions alongside families and healthcare teams.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Prereq: NURS 6243, NURS 6222, NURS 6600, NURS 6761, and NURS 5981 with a B or better.

Typically Offered: Summer.

AGACNP learners enhance skills in managing acute and chronic conditions, focusing on interdisciplinary care coordination, clinical decision-making, and patient-centered outcomes. Emphasis is on adapting to dynamic needs and demonstrating proficiency in the acute care NP role.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Prereq: NURS 6600, NURS 5982, and NURS 6620 with a B or better.

Typically Offered: Fall.

AGACNP learners enhance skills in managing acute and chronic conditions, focusing on interdisciplinary care coordination, clinical decision-making, and patient-centered outcomes. Emphasis is on adapting to dynamic needs and demonstrating proficiency in the acute care NP role.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Prereq: NURS 6620, NURS 5983, and NURS 6610 with a B or better.

Typically Offered: Spring.

For the PMHNP student, competencies for this level include a psychiatric evaluation and beginning skills in individual and group therapies across the lifespan. The student must meet the competency of each expected outcome by the end of 90 clinical hours. Requisite: NURS 6761

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall.

For the PMHNP student, competencies for this level include developing shared decision-making of evidence-based psychopharmacology and enhanced communication skills in individual and group therapies across the lifespan. The student must meet all outcomes by the end of 135 clinical hours. Requisite: NURS 5991, NURS 6664

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall.

For the PMHNP student, competencies for this level include adapting treatment planning, pharmacotherapies and non-pharmacotherapies to multiple populations based on evidence-based strategies and culturally sensitive relationship development. The student must meet all outcomes by the end of 135 clinical hours. Requisite NURS 5992, NURS 6664, NURS 6665

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall.

For the PMHNP student, competencies include the management of complex treatments plans based on evidence-based pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for mental disorders across the lifespan and settings. The student must meet all outcomes by the end of 270 clinical hours. Requisite: NURS 5993, NURS 6664, NURS 6665

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall.

The course provides an introduction to nursing's philosophical, ethical, and theoretical frameworks as guides for practice. Nursing theories, grand, middle-range, and ways of knowing will be analyzed. Students will develop a beginning model for practice based on their nursing philosophy.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Explore the identity and experiences of women Servicemembers and Veterans through historical, cultural, biopsychosocial, and health-policy lenses. Critical analysis of healthcare related to military service, deployment, military-related trauma, reintegration, resilience, and health disparities to promote equitable, evidence-informed, women-centered care.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

Examine military and veteran family dynamics during and after service, focusing on deployment, parenting, caregiving, trauma, reintegration, and health disparities. Explore social determinants of health, survivor experiences, secondary trauma, and resilience-building while evaluating civilian provider readiness and family-centered care strategies.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Exploration of veteran/military culture and psychological effects of warfare throughout history; contemporary issues of post-traumatic stress, moral injury, and suicidality. Promotion of resilience, wellness, and the ethical provision of psychological care during reintegration and transition to civilian life.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Examine the Integrated Disability Evaluation System, including policies, clinical conditions, and complex case studies. Explore service-connected benefits, Reserve/Guard considerations, and disability appeals. Emphasis on physiological conditions, disability ratings, and preparing veterans for claims processes, evaluation, and potential appeals.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

Explore the complex systems of military and veteran healthcare, focusing on structures, policies, and coordination across military, VA, and community systems. Examine sociopolitical, economic, and ethical issues, and the roles and advocacy of Advanced Practice Nurses in the healthcare systems.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Students examine service-connected health conditions across the military lifecycle—from enlistment through aging and end-of-life. Emphasis is placed on military history, toxic exposures, explosive injuries, and evidence-informed clinical guidelines for assessing and managing conflictspecific acute, chronic, and palliative care needs.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Engage in a preceptored internship applying advanced nursing practice competencies in veteran and military health care. Emphasizes leadership, innovation, program mplementation and evaluation, quality improvement processes, and scholarly dissemination to strengthen systems-based care and administrative competencies in real-world settings.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Examine influence of policy on health, healthcare and nursing at local, state, national and global levels. Analyze policies in the context of sociopolitical and health performance environments. Engage in a policy meeting or interview a policymaker.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

Learners acquire methods of knowledge generation applicable to advanced practice nursing.Quantitative and qualitative methods are presented in the context of evidence-based practice.Students will evaluate evidence from multiple sources, including research knowledge, clinicalexpertise, and patient preference for clinical applications.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

The learner applies descriptive statistics, database management, correlation and regression, power analysis, hypothesis testing, t-tests, ANOVA, and non-parametric tests, and analytic methods for quality improvement project while using data from nursing-centered studies.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Summer.

Evidence-based Practice: Evaluating Evidence integrates beginning research and statistics knowledge to guide in the development of PICOT questions to address health priority issues. Skills in finding, appraising, and synthesizing evidence to improve quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of patient care

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

The student will be developing essential knowledge and competencies for advanced practice nurses to evaluate and apply advanced pharmacological principles, optimize therapeutic regimens, and apply considerations for different populations and contextual factors to ensure safe, evidence-based medication use across patient lifespans.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: NURS 6243 with a B or better.

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

Advanced concepts of the dynamic aspects of disease processes provide a foundation for the assessment and management of acutely or chronically ill clients. Epidemiology, etiology, genetics, immunology, lifespan and cultural concepts, diagnostic reasoning, and current research findings are integrated throughout.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Students examine concepts of classifying nursing and health phenomena for data management and retrieval. By analyzing health policy requirements, students plan for integration of terminology standards for data sharing in clinical practice, administration, and research.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students critically evaluate knowledge discovery, distribution, and management in clinical settings. Individually and in teams, students design a strategy for applying learned concepts to develop a comprehensive knowledge management system for healthcare applications.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

Students critically assess digital tool applications to foster engagement by patients, families andconsumers in their health care. Working individually and in groups, students analyze the evidence,legal, ethical, social, and policy issues within the context of connected health.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Students examine the relationship between interface design and human interaction with computers and mobile applications by incorporating informatics principles, theory, and models and their application towards interface design and evaluation to promote effective human interaction with technology-based health care systems.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Learners critically evaluate and utilize informatics tools for evidence-based decision-making to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care, actively engage patients/consumers in their care, effectively and efficiently manage practice, and exemplify leadership behaviors in learning health systems.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Students will plan, analyze, design, implement, and evaluate health information systems using a structured system development life cycle. Students will demonstrate competency in selecting and managing health information technologies to support safe, effective, and efficient care delivery.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: NURS 6286 with B or better.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Students work individually and in interdisciplinary teams to design and critically analyze application challenges in database management systems. The concepts of database modeling, querying, and reporting are explored with students integrating database concepts into clinical registries and Meaningful Use queries.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Students explore epidemiologic principles, study design, data analysis, and using evidence to inform clinical and policy decisions. Students develop competencies in risk assessment, program planning, quality improvement, and translating findings into strategies for health promotion and disease prevention.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-GRAD Restricted to graduate students only.

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

Learners will demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning to provide comprehensive well-woman and problem-oriented gynecologic care, including screening, diagnosis, evidence-based management, patient education, collaboration, and referral, consistent with midwifery/WHNP scope and standards of practice in a variety of settings.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Learners perform clinical skills and competencies essential for providing safe and effective perinatal and gynecologic care, with additional skills focused on working as a member of an interprofessional team.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Learners will develop clinical skills and competencies essential for providing safe and effective intrapartum and newborn care, with additional skills focused on working as a member of an interprofessional team.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

Learners demonstrate advanced understanding of human reproduction physiology, including pregnancy, lactation, and neonatal adaptation. coursework emphasized application of anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology to evidence-based decision-making in clinical care, preparing midwifery and advanced practice nursing students for safe, effective patient management.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Learners will demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning to provide antepartum and postpartum care, including screening,diagnosis, management, collaboration, and referral. They will appraise evidence and apply findings to clinical decisions,consistent with midwifery scope, standards, and care of women at risk.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Learners will demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning to provide peripartum and immediate newborn care, includingscreening, diagnosis, evidence-based management, collaboration, and referral. They will appraise literature and apply evidence-based findings to clinical decision-making, consistent with midwifery standards of practice.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Learners will demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning to provide primary care for non-pregnant women, including screening, health promotion, diagnosis, evidence-based management, collaboration, and referral, consistent with midwifery/WHNP scope and standards of practice.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Learners will integrate midwifery history, philosophy, ethics, leadership, and financial foundations with evidence-based practice, advocacy, and health policy to promote whole-person care, improve maternal, reproductive, and newborn outcomes, and strengthen midwifery practice across U.S. and global communities.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Learners develop essential skills to address the healthcare needs of pediatric patients and their families. Learners incorporate evidence-based practice, developmental theory, family-centered care, and healthpromotion to manage well-child care, common acute, chronic, and behavioral health conditions in pediatric populations.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Learners will demonstrate advanced knowledge and skill using the systematic approach to assess pediatric patients taking into account age and developmentally specific anatomic and physiologic differences.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Pediatric Primary Care and Acute Care students will apply pediatric knowledge and interpret clinical data for use in decision making and performance of clinical procedures across the care continuum.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Typically Offered: Summer.

PNP-PC students apply advanced assessment skills and clinical reasoning to promote pediatric population health and disease prevention. Emphasis is placed on person-centered, developmentally appropriatecare within interprofessional teams. Students analyze well-child clinical data and develop comprehensive assessments of pediatric patients.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

PNP-PC students synthesize evidence-based strategies to assess, diagnose, and manage minor acute illnesses in pediatric populations. Students integrate developmental knowledge with family systems andinterprofessional teams to deliver person-centered care for this population.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Learners develop skills in core elements of pediatric well and minor acute illness care, integrating patient data and scientific evidence to develop family centered management approaches across thecontinuum of primary, urgent, specialty and acute care to support optimal outcomes.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course in the PNP curriculum focuses on assessment, diagnosis, and evidence-based management of children with disabilities and chronic illness. Care for children with disabilities and chronic illnessesare addressed within the context of patient, family, and inter-professional teams.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

ACPNP learners will explore common acute, critical, and chronic health conditions, applying knowledge for delivering care to pediatric patients. A systems based approach is used. First course in three part series.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

ACPNP learners will explore common acute, critical, and chronic health conditions, applying knowledge for delivering care to pediatric patients. A systems based approach is used. Second course in three partseries.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

ACPNP students will explore common acute, critical, and chronic health conditions, applying knowledge for delivering care to pediatric patients. A systems based approach is used. Second course in three partseries.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

FNP Students differentiate evidence-based, family-centered approaches in managing behavioral and physical health in the primary care setting. Analyzing differential diagnosis for acute and chronic conditions are prioritized. Strategies in development of wellness goals are self-efficacy are created. Practice challenges are discussed.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Summer.

FNP Students evaluate evidence-based, family-centered approaches to managing behavioral and physical health in the primary care setting. Evaluating differential diagnosis of acute and chronic conditions are conducted. Strategies in development of wellness goals and self-efficacy are analyzed. Practice challenges prioritized.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Summer.

Students synthesize and apply didactic concepts to make evidence-based clinical decisions in the physical and behavioral primary care of women, pediatrics, adults, and older adults. Demonstrate proficiency in performing procedures and in gathering, interpreting, and evaluating laboratory and diagnostic data.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

AGACNP learners develop foundational advanced practice registered nurse skills necessary when caring for acute, critical, and chronically ill patients. Emphasis is on analyzation and prioritization of patient data, formulation of broad differential diagnoses, and effective communication.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: NURS 6761, NURS 6222, NURS 6243.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Students integrate scientific knowledge with advanced health assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to diagnose and manage acute adult and older adult conditions. Students prioritize urgent, emergent, and critical care, while demonstrating patient-centered care and applying systems-based advanced practice strategies.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Students appraise current and historical trends for U.S. healthcare system politics, policies and resources that inform contemporary nurse leadership strategies for health policy, system-level change, and response to disaster and public health incidences.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Students continue to integrate scientific knowledge with advanced health assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to diagnose and manage acute adult and older adult conditions. Students prioritize urgent, emergent, and critical care, while demonstrating patient-centered care and applying systems-based advanced practice strategies.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: NURS 6600.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Students apply principles of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for acute and critical care patients. Emphasizes the analysis of clinical data and the development of advanced technical skills essential for the role of the adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: NURS 6610.

Typically Offered: Summer.

This course synthesizes professional principles related to the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) and transition to the role of a provider. Students will prepare to integrate professional responsibilities into practice.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

The learner will apply foundations of advanced public health nursing practice, demonstrate essentials of program planning,implementation, and evaluation using an interprofessional practice paradigm; and develop of policy and advocacy skills toimprove population health.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

Students explore the FNP role in promoting health, wellness, and self-care across the lifespan, applying evidence-based practice and guidelines for whole person care.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Focus on integration of neurobiological and psychopharmacological theory and research to assessment, symptomatology and treatment of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. If DNP additional courses, NURS6303, Evaluate Evidence, Applying Evidence

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Advanced knowledge of evidence-based psychiatric-mental health nursing including assessment, diagnosis, health promotion, management, and evaluation of adults with mental illnesses and addictions. Emphasis on neurobiology, complex psychopharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments, and culturally-sensitive nursing interventions.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Advanced psychiatric nursing assessment, diagnosis, health promotion, management, and evaluation of children, adolescents, and older adults. Emphasis on complex individual, family, group, and non- pharmacologic nursing interventions, neurobiology, psychopharmacological treatments, and developmentally appropriate, culturally-sensitive nursing interventions.Variable credits: Child (2); all populations (3)

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

Overview of behavioral health assessment of common psychiatric disorders and medical conditions with psychiatric presentations across the lifespan. Focuses on integrated care settings, interdisciplinary communication, care coordination within a trauma-informed setting. Guidelines for telepsych and social media will be discussed.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Theoretical foundational knowledge of individual, group, and family therapy, health promotion and disease prevention for the PMHNP across the lifespan. Focuses behavior change and use of Cognitive behavioral, dialectical, solution focused, play, and reminiscence therapy, motivational interviewing across the lifespan.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

The FNP will analyze female anatomy and physiology, and apply evidence-based, culturally sensitive primary care principles to common gynecologic, pregnancy, postpartum, and preventative health issues across the lifespan.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Focus is on knowledge acquisition and skill development for Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist. The course provides learning of concepts of wellness, health maintenance, aging, palliative care as a model for health, evidence-based practice, skill development, clinical decision-making and APN role.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

This course builds CNS knowledge and skills managing the care of acutely ill patients across the continuum during acute illness episodes. CNS practice incorporating three spheres, healthcare systems, patients/families and nursing practice excellence are central to course content

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Focuses is on management of patients with acute and chronic illness in adults by Clinical Nurse Specialist. Integration of advanced skill development, theory, evidence-based symptom, disease management, clinical decision making, leadership, system organizational strategies, professional issues, and APN role transition.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

The learner will integrate advanced practice science and skills from nursing and public health discipline in public healthpracticum in community based settings.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students evaluate a clinical situation to design and create an informatics solution. The project is completed through the integration and application of progressive informatics competencies as students engage in the Informatics Nurse Practitioner role.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Learners demonstrate the advanced subjective and objective data gathering skills of communication, advanced physical examination and critical thinking to generate and document clinically reasoned assessments and plans required of advanced practice registered nurses caring for persons across the lifespan.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Prereq: NURS 6243 with a B or better.

Typically Offered: Fall, Summer.

Learners will apply contemporary theories to healthcare systems and the managerial leadership role. Critical analyses of organizational, leadership, change, and evidence-based practice theories are synthesized and applied to organizational analysis performance improvement.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Learners will synthesize and apply theory and evidence of relational communication within interpersonal, group, and organizational contexts. Relationship-building, effective communication and leadership competencies are emphasized for to enhance safety and quality improvement through reflection and self-awareness, shared decision-making, coaching, and conflict management.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Students will evaluate decision-making models and apply them utilizing diverse data sources and decision support tools for high-quality and safe person centered care delivery to improve health outcomes across care settings.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Students evaluate and synthesize systems and leadership theories, concepts, and competencies in the work setting under the supervision of a preceptor. The course is designed as a capstone experience to integrate and demonstrate competencies developed throughout the program and informed by a nationally accepted nursing leadership framework.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students examine contemporary nurse leadership actions to create vision, strategies, policies and outcomes that lead change, promote collaboration, and improve care. Individual strategic leadership competencies are developed through robust self-assessments, reflection, and development of an action plan.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Distinguishes leadership theories and management concepts in complex systems. Analyzes self-leadership in influencing teams. Differentiates systems influencers impacting financial decision-making. Synthesizes knowledge of economics, contributing to organizational financial health culminating in business plan for innovative nursing program/practice.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

The student will learn concepts related to whole person health promotion and health maintenance in primary care; how to integrate evidence-based guidelines for health promotion and tools for assessment and management of the individual, family and community.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

AGPCNP students differentiate evidence-based, patient-centered approaches in managing health in the primary care setting. Analyzing differential diagnosis for acute and chronic conditions are prioritized. Strategies in development of wellness goals and self-efficacy are created. Practice challenges discussed. Co-requisite NURS 5972

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

This course is a special topic selected each semester.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 12.

AGPCNP students will demonstrate higher levels of critical thinking related to differential diagnosis development and competent determination of care management related to acute and chronic health alternatives for the adult/geriatric primary care patient.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Summer.

Learners evaluate principles of advance practice nursing for the geriatric patient through assessment of aging processes, management of multimorbidity, and care coordination while focusing on goals of care.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Advance practice registered nurse learners develop competencies through analysis, appraisal and application of the professional aspects and challenges associated with transitioning to the advance practice registered nursing role.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Summer.

The student will learn how to perform safe foundational procedural skills and apply an organized,evidenced based structured approach to the interpretation of specific diagnostics traditionallyencountered in the primary care setting.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

Registration only if not enrolled in other coursework in the semester in which he/she takes MS comprehensive exams.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Additional Information: Report as Full Time.

The learner will synthesize didactic knowledge from the FNP program to facilitate their transition to novice FNP, formulate a comprehensive business model for NP practice, and design a strategic plan for certification, professional interviewing, and obtaining their first NP position.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

Learners will synthesize and integrate current evidence to guide leader choices and behaviors in creating, enhancing, and improving the work environment and quality/safety outcomes.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Beginning exploration of focal emphasis areas biobehavioral science, caring science and healthcare systems in a seminar format. Students will be introduced to the three focal emphasis areas and explore applications to knowledge development in their area of substantive interest.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course examines the nature of nursing as an academic discipline, emphasizing varying perspectives of nursing's phenomena of interest, history of knowledge development, interrelationships between philosophies of science and nursing knowledge, and methods of theory analysis and evaluation.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course focuses on processes of knowledge development in nursing, including traditional and non-traditional methods. Application of a selected theory development method to a student-selected nursing phenomenon is required.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Concentrating on clear, logical thinking as the most important element in manuscript communication, students will develop the discipline of writing focusing on writing roadmaps, precision/concision of words and common writing pitfalls in the context of expectations for scientific publishing.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

This seminar course is designed to promote beginning professional role formation as PhD students transition to the role of the scientist. Students will develop a research question and specific aims.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

This seminar course builds upon Role of the Scientist I by emphasizing role development through scientific grant writing.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

Students gain hands-on research experience by leveraging various opportunities within the college, campus and other academic environments. This experience includes observing and contributing to research steps and team interaction. This will enrich students' understanding of research process and provide hands-on experience.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Course provides a knowledge base in the process of instrumentation to measure psychosocial and behavioral phenomena. Techniques to evaluate existing instruments will be followed by methods for designing and testing the psychometric properties of new instruments.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

This course focuses on the evolution of caring science research and other disciplines. in nursing with an emphasis on Dr. Jean Watson’s perspective. How theoretical-scholarship in caring science and multiple theories of caring are used in research are critiqued and examined.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course explores caring science and unitary views of consciousness in relation to universal human experiences and vicissitudes of existence. Different theories of caring examine the diversity and converging directions of a unitary transformative view of evolved humans.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course explores the placement of caring knowledge within a trans-disciplinary matrix for nursing science and related fields of health science and education. It examines diverse concepts of caring in the larger field of health science. Original expanded title: Caring Science as Transdisciplinary Domain for Health Science Education, Practice and Research

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

An introduction to qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry to guide the selection of methods for knowledge development in nursing science. Emphasis on the integration of midrange theory, literature analysis and synthesis for development of researchable questions and methods selection.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course focuses on the analysis of caring science from its philosophical traditions. Historical and contemporary philosophical scholarship will be critiqued and examined. NURS 7504, NURS 7519

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

This course focuses on the latest development and analysis of caring science research and its evolution. Caring Science questions and methodologies related to students’ research questions are examined.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

A range of qualitative research approaches are critically analyzed exploring contemporary qualitative designs and underlying theoretical models. Students will develop a qualitative research proposal appropriate for student's doctoral research questions and consistent with IRB requirements.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course provides students with opportunities to apply new skills and knowledge related to their interests, including critique and dissemination of qualitative reports.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course provides students with tailored opportunities to apply new skills and knowledge related to their interests, including conduct of a preliminary qualitative study. Local institutional review board approval, recruitment, data collection and early data analysis are conducted.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

In-depth study of principles foundational to quantitative research including causation, sources of error, measurement, and the focal unit, and internal and external validity; experimental and quasi-experimental designs; and methods of statistical analysis for these designs.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

In-depth study of principles foundational to quantitative research including causation, prediction, explanation, and power; descriptive and exploratory research designs; methods of statistical analysis for these designed; and meta-analysis.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Focuses on descriptive/evaluation of health care delivery across the continuum of care and integration of nursing care with health care delivery. HCS middle-range theories for descriptive/evaluative research are examined. Advanced methods for research at the system level are addressed.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Focuses on improving health care delivery across the continuum of care. Changing theories and theoretical grounding for system level interventions are analyzed. Application includes advanced methods/designs for assessing the effects of change. The information technology/care delivery interface is examined.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course focuses on the intrapersonal biobehavioral determinants that underlie health-related phenomena, including psychosocial, behavioral, and biological mechanisms and processes.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

This course focuses on the interpersonal phenomena that arise from interrelationships among psychosocial, behavioral, biological and environmental determinants of health states across the lifespan.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Introduction to conceptualization, development, and testing of biobehavioral interventions; identification and measurement of biobehavioral outcomes. Attention is also given to the design of clinical trials to test biobehavioral interventions, questions of efficacy and effectiveness, and issues of implementation and fidelity.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Development of key questions in the field of health care systems research will be discussed in seminar format. Students will develop research questions related to their own area of research interest.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Interrogation of extant HCS literature using integrative and systematic frameworks to review the state of the science in student's area of interest. Identification of state of the science and appropriate research methods to address the gaps in knowledge.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

This course explores definitions of stories and narratives and applied narrative inquiry within a health equity-driven, transdisciplinary perspective for health professions. This course covers narrative inquiry across methods, grant and career development, and doctoral-level research using single, multi- and mixed-methods design.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Development of key questions in the field of biobehavioral research will be discussed in seminar format. Students will develop a problem statement and research questions related to their own area of research interest.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course is a special topic selected each semester.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Exploration of best practices in evidence-based and theory-guided teaching and learning. Analysis of contemporary learning principles and learning styles. Implementation of a variety of high impact strategies for learner engagement across settings, with emphasis on selecting and using teaching technologies. Requisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Exploration of advances in nursing education science and impact of research on pedagogy, roles, and competencies necessary to prepare a well-qualified diverse nursing workforce across dynamic healthcare systems and environments. Emphasis is on the scholarship of teaching and professional development. Requisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

Exploration of curriculum design and course developments as foundations for achievement of desired learning and program outcomes. Emphasis is on the connection between design and evidence of performance to assess individual learning, course and program effectiveness and continuous quality improvement. Requisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructor.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Students who need greater than 540 clinical hours toward DNP Project take this course. Faculty advisor provides oversight to student. Credit hours are variable depending on individual student needs. Students log DNP Project hours in InPlace.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 12.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Students identify a gap in practice, population, or system; analyze evidence, and plan their scholarly projects. Ethical and regulatory considerations are applied and the clinical team and clinical mentor are identified.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Students further develop a scholarly project proposal culminating in institutional approval including non-human subjects’ review. Apply knowledge of methods reflecting theoretical underpinnings, quality and safety concepts, project planning and fiscal tools.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

Students implement the clinical scholarly project by leading an interdisciplinary team, conducting data collection, and begin data analysis. Implementation is guided by institutional resources, selected theories, identified evidence, small cycles of change, and technology. Students prioritize dissemination of results.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: NURS 8020, NURS 8030.

Typically Offered: Fall, Summer.

Students conclude project implementation, finalize data collection, analyze data and formulate a sustainability plan using financial metrics and value proposition. Findings are disseminated through a scholarly paper and oral presentation. An electronic portfolio is developed demonstrating achievement of DNP essentials.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Student MUST register for section number listed for dissertation chairperson.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 40.

Additional Information: Report as Full Time.