| NURS | 401 | Pathophysiology and Pharmacotherapeutics I | 3 hours. | First of two courses which provide an understanding of responses to disease and pharmacological treatments. Included are the therapeutic and toxic effects for major drug classes and basic microbiology principles. Prerequisite(s): KN 253 and KN 254 or the equivalent; and graduate standing. Must enroll concurrently in NURS 404. |
| NURS | 402 | Pathophysiology and Pharmacotherapeutics II | 4 hours. | Second of two courses which provide an understanding of responses to disease and pharmacological treatments. Included are the therapeutic and toxic effects for major drug classes and basic microbiology principles. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NURS 401; and graduate standing. |
| NURS | 403 | Cultural Fluency and Communication Skills | 2 hours. | Course provides a foundation of communication skills, teaching and learning theory, and cultural competence for provision of nursing care. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NURS 401 and credit or concurrent registration in NURS 404; and graduate standing. |
| NURS | 404 | Integrated Health Care: Concepts and Skills | 3 hours. | Provides the basis for understanding fundamental concepts to the practice of nursing across the life span. Theoretical concepts will be integrated with skills and clinical in the introductory practicum. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. Must enroll concurrently in NURS 401. |
| NURS | 406 | Integrated Health Care: Community | 2 hours. | Theories of community assessment, disease prevention, and health behavior are applied to promotion of health for communities and vulnerable populations. Understanding of systems and collaboration with the interdisciplinary team are emphasized. Prerequisite(s): NURS 401 and NURS 402 and NURS 404 and NUPR 405; and graduate standing. |
| NURS | 408 | Integrated Health Care: Adult/Older Adult | 4 hours. | Focuses on clinical evaluation/management of common/complex problems in adults and older adults. Emphasizes pathophysiology and management strategies in context of culture and ethnicity. Prerequisite(s): NURS 401 and NURS 402 and NURS 404 and NUPR 405; and graduate standing. |
| NURS | 412 | Integrated Health Care: Women, Children and Family | 4 hours. | Care for women throughout the lifespan, including pregnancy, birth, the postpartum and interconceptional periods and throughout the aging process. Prerequisite(s): NURS 401 and NURS 402 and NURS 404 and NUPR 405; and graduate standing. |
| NURS | 414 | Integrated Health Care: Mental Health | 2 hours. | Application and integration of biopsychosocial concepts and principles to the mental health care of individuals and groups across the continuum of care, including health promotion and illness prevention, maintenance and rehabilitation. Prerequisite(s): NURS 401 and NURS 402 and NURS 404 and NUPR 405; and graduate standing. |
| NURS | 416 | Bioethics | 2 hours. | Examine ethical decision-making models as applied to nursing. Analyze use of ethics committees, resolution of conflict around ethical dilemmas, impact of cultural/gender influences on ethical decision-making and nursing's role as patient advocate. Prerequisite(s): NURS 401 and NURS 402 and NURS 404 and NUPR 405; and graduate standing. |
| NURS | 418 | Leadership in Professional Practice | 3 hours. | Theories of leadership/management are analyzed in relationship to the new healthcare delivery system, nursing role, evidence-based practice, future trends and the professional education continuum. Prerequisite(s): NURS 406 and NURS 408 and NURS 412 and NURS 414 and NUPR 415; and graduate standing. |
| NURS | 525 | Intermediate Statistics | 3 hours. | Application and interpretation of statistical techniques appropriate for health sciences. Prepares students to think quantitatively, use computer to perform statistical analysis, and assess data critically. Prerequisite(s): An undergraduate statistics course. |
| NURS | 526 | Nursing Inquiry I | 2 hours. | First of two courses examining interrelationships among theory, research and practice, as integral components of evidence-based practice, emphasizing concepts, theory analysis, and problem identification. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NURS 525 or Credit or concurrent registration in BSTT 400 or the equivalent. |
| NURS | 527 | Nursing Inquiry II | 2 hours. | Second of two courses examining interrelationships among theory, practice and research as integral components of evidence-based practice, emphasizing research methods and ethical issues. Prerequisite(s): NURS 526. |
| NURS | 528 | Health, Environment, and Systems | 2 hours. | Examination of international, national and local environments for health, health systems, health policy and their outcomes. Influence of social, cultural and ethical factors. |
| NURS | 529 | Issues of Advanced Practice in Nursing | 1 hours. | Examines advanced practice in nursing from historical, contemporary, and future dimensions. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Only students enrolled in specific nursing concentrations are allowed to repeat course. Prerequisite(s): NURS 528. |
| NURS | 530 | Introduction to the Clinical Nurse Specialist Role | 1 hours. | Models and role competencies of the clinical nurse specialist. Prerequisite(s): NURS 527. |
| NURS | 531 | Pharmacotherapeutics in Advanced Practice in Nursing | 3 hours. | Advanced principles of pharmacotherapeutics. Includes legal issues, client adherence, and medication selection factors. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NURS 535 or credit or concurrent registration in NURS 536 or the equivalent; or consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 532 | Comprehensive Health Assessment for Advanced Practice | 0 TO 3 hours. | Includes physical, psychosocial, developmental, occupational, sexual, cultural assessments across the life spans, emphasizing differences between normal and abnormal. Students synthesize results in client's health status. Students register for either 2 or 3 credit hours. Prerequisite(s): NURS 210 or the equivalent or consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 533 | Applied Pharmacotherapeutics in Advanced Practice in Nursing | 1 hours. | Application of pharmacology principles to sub-specialty populations. May be repeated to a maximum of 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NURS 531. |
| NURS | 535 | Biological Basis of Disease | 4 hours. | Provides a foundation for clinical therapeutics through an understanding of biophysical mechanisms of disease. Basic concepts of pathological processes are examined with application to organ systems and across the lifespan. Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate physiology and pathophysiology courses. |
| NURS | 536 | Physiologic Basis of Nursing Practice Across the Adult Lifespan | 4 hours. | Advanced contemporary physiologic principles and their relevance to clinical practice in the adult patient. Prerequisite(s): An undergraduate physiology course or consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 537 | Pathophysiological Basis of Disease | 3 hours. | Pathophysiologic responses and risk behaviors that are linked to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Prerequisite(s): NURS 536 or the equivalent; or consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 550 | Evidence-Based Practice | 3 hours. | Application of evidence-based practice to healthcare delivery systems and clinical issues. Emphasizes the integration of retrieved evidence with client preferences in order to design and evaluate best practices. Prerequisite(s): NURS 527 or the equivalent. |
| NURS | 551 | Promoting Health: Translating Science to Practice | 3 hours. | Examine theories/models of health promotion, disease prevention, and teaching/learning for their application to direct care and systems-focused nursing practice. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NURS 550. |
| NURS | 552 | Advanced Nursing Leadership Concepts | 3 hours. | Emphasizes leadership in direct care and systems-focused advanced nursing practice roles. Focuses on synthesis of theoretical leadership concepts with personal/professional values and working with multiple disciplines and multiple constituencies. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NURS 528 or the equivalent. |
| NURS | 560 | Synthesis Project Development | 1 TO 4 hours. | Students design a doctoral nursing practice project related to an aggregate of individuals/selected population of interest. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 561 | Synthesis Project Implementation | 1 TO 4 hours. | Students implement a doctoral nursing practice project related to an aggregate of individuals/selected population of interest. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): NURS 560 and consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 562 | Synthesis Project Evaluation and Dissemination | 1 TO 4 hours. | Students analyze and disseminate findings from the doctoral nursing practice project. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): NURS 561 and consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 570 | Philosophy of Science for Health Research | 3 hours. | Traces the development of scientific reasoning and explanation from Aristotle to the present, focusing on the nature of knowledge and role of truth for health research. Prerequisite(s): Graduate level research course or consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 571 | Theory and Theory Development for Nursing Research | 3 hours. | Methods of theory development and critical analysis of selected biological, behavioral, health service, and grand nursing theories which form the basis of nursing science are examined. Prerequisite(s): NURS 570. |
| NURS | 572 | Advanced Research Design | 4 hours. | In-depth analysis of research design, including such areas as design appropriateness and validity, sampling, research ethics, and interpretation. Application of the content to nursing and related fields. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NURS 570; and graduate level statistics or consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 573 | Measurement in Health Research | 4 hours. | Qualitative and quantitative measurement theories; assessment of reliability, validity, and data quality. Critical analysis of measurement issues across the continuum of measures in health research. Prerequisite(s): NURS 572 and credit or concurrent registration in NURS 571 and credit or concurrent registration in the second course in graduate level statistics series; or consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 585 | Advanced Research Seminar | 1 TO 2 hours. | Integrates theory and methods for health research. Topics vary according to student interests and instructor availability. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. A minimum of 2 hours of credit is required; a maximum of 4 hours of credit may be applied toward the PhD Prerequisite(s): Open only to PhD degree students; and consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 590 | Leadership in Scientific Careers | 1 hours. | Analyzes components of leadership in science at the national and global levels. Analyzes factors and issues of the discipline affecting a research career. Analyzes the interdependency of the science to policy cycles of influence. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. Prerequisite(s): NUPR 593. |
| NURS | 592 | Preliminary Exam Preparation | 1 TO 12 hours. | Literature review, reading and writing in preparation for the preliminary examination supervised by faculty research advisor. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of 24 hours. Prerequisite(s): Completion of core courses and consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 597 | Master's Project | 0 TO 16 hours. | Master's student project research. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 598 | Thesis Research: Masters | 0 TO 16 hours. | Master's student thesis research. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| NURS | 599 | PhD Thesis Research | 0 TO 16 hours. | Doctoral student thesis research. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |