| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 438 | Infant Feeding: Historical, Societal, and Health Policy Issues | 3 hours. | Examines infant feeding practices from historical, contemporary, societal, and political dimensions. The importance of infant feeding in developing countries as well as legislation regarding infant feeding is also examined. Prerequisite(s): Senior or graduate standing; or consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 440 | Wholistic Health: Use of Self | 2 hours. | Comprehensive mind, body and spiritual health care. Spiritual assessment of self, individuals and families. Self as a therapeutic agent/health provider for wholistic health care. Prerequisite(s): Senior or graduate standing; or consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 441 | Wholistic Health: Community Focus | 2 hours. | Community and congregational assessment. Health beliefs and practices of faith communities and their impact on health care services, communities, and systems to foster planned change. Prerequisite(s): Senior or graduate standing; or consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 450 | Women and Mental Health Nursing | 3 hours. | Theories of female psychology; women's daily lives and mental health; gender differences in mental illness; strategies for improving women's mental health. Same as GWS 450. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. Students enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences must have credit in PSCH 100 and either PSCH 270 or PSCH 315 or GWS 315. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 456 | Women's Health: A Primary Health Care Approach | 3 hours. | Health promotion and disease prevention in women's health. Includes community experience with community women. Primary health care approaches examined. Same as CHSC 456. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 460 | Individualized Internship | 1 TO 5 hours. | Intensive internship experience will consist of a practicum that will develop skills, competencies and knowledge in a focused health care delivery setting. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 510 | Instructional Design and Delivery in Nursing and Health Sciences | 3 hours. | Comprehensive introduction to teaching/learning theory, methods, and strategies for instruction and enhancement of learning in the classroom, clinical, and online. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 511 | Curriculum Processes in Nursing and Health Sciences | 3 hours. | Comprehensive introduction to processes relevant to the design and implementation of a curriculum from foundational concepts through outcomes monitoring. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 512 | Evaluation and Assessment in Nursing and Health Sciences | 3 hours. | Evaluation theory and strategies for evaluating student learning, courses, and programs in multiple settings and contexts. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 513 | Teaching/Learning Synthesis in Nursing and Health Sciences | 3 hours. | Synthesis and application of teaching/learning theories, methods, and strategies for instructional design and delivery, learner/course/program evaluation and assessment, curricular processes in individualized settings and contexts. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NUEL 510 and Credit or concurrent registration in NUEL 511 and Credit or concurrent registration in NUEL 512; and consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 516 | Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Disease Development | 3 hours. | Prepares the student to assess and manage cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases that include dyslipidemia, overweight and obesity, hypertension and cardiometabolic syndrome. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 517 | Metabolic Disturbances in the Older Adult | 3 hours. | Prepares the student to assess and manage metabolic disturbances that result in common and complex geriatric syndromes. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 518 | Advanced Diabetes Management | 3 hours. | Provides the student with in-depth knowledge regarding the management of diabetes mellitus and complications. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 520 | Dying, Loss and Grief | 3 hours. | Analysis of social, cultural, and psychological aspects of human grief, loss/death within families and professional caregivers surrounding palliative and end-of-life care. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 522 | Palliative Management of Pain and Common Symptoms | 3 hours. | Evidence-base of biobehavioral strategies for palliative management of pain and common symptoms in life-limiting and chronic illness across the lifespan. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 524 | Socio-cultural and Ethical Issues in Palliative Care | 3 hours. | Using an ethics theoretical framework, this course explores social, cultural, and political factors that influence palliative care for clients and families across the life span. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 536 | Forensic Nursing Science | 3 hours. | Focuses on the background, development, and theoretical foundations of forensic nursing. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 537 | Forensic Health Care Documentation and Evidence Collection | 3 hours. | Focuses on the integration of the criminal justice, social service, and legal systems into the nursing care of people affected by violence. Prerequisite(s): NUEL 536. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 538 | Forensic Health Care for Vulnerable Populations | 3 hours. | Focuses on the specific needs of vulnerable populations as victims of violence. Prerequisite(s): NUEL 537. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 539 | Forensic Practicum | 3 hours. | Completion of a practicum in a specialty practice area focusing on victims, families, and alleged perpetrators. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. Prerequisite(s): NUEL 537 and consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 541 | Substance Misuse and Dependence | 2 hours. | Theories, research trends, treatment perspectives, ethical and social issues related to alcohol and other drug misuse and dependence. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 544 | Qualitative Research in Nursing | 4 hours. | Major approaches to qualitative research including design, conduct, reporting, and firsthand experience in data collection and analysis. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 546 | Biometrics and Applied Statistics | 4 hours. | Application of recent procedures in statistical analysis. Emphasis is on design of experiments and regression analysis; use of BMDP software on Mainframe/VAX computers. Prerequisite(s): NURS 525 or the equivalent or consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 547 | Multivariate Analysis for Health Sciences | 3 hours. | Practical applications of multivariate techniques in health sciences. Minimal involvement in mathematics provided one has basic understanding of multivariate analysis. Prerequisite(s): NUEL 546. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 548 | Methodological Issues for Cross-Cultural Research | 3 hours. | Conceptual, methodological and ethical issues for research with varied racial/ethnic backgrounds. Applies acculturation, translation, immigration, and health behavior issues to clinical, community, and international settings. Prerequisite(s): NURS 572; and consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 549 | Laboratory Techniques for Nursing Research | 3 hours. | Techniques in laboratory research for nursing science. Basic physiological and biochemical methods and equipment, animal models, human subjects, safe laboratory practice, development from conceptualization through execution. Prerequisite(s): NURS 536. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 552 | Responsible Conduct of Research | 1 hours. | Overview of the major ethical issues in the conduct of research with human or animal subjects with strategies for resolving these issues. Course is required by National Institutes of Health for all students supported by a National Research Service Award. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 555 | Theories and Methods in Women's Health Nursing Research | 3 hours. | Critical analysis of theoretical and methodological approaches in women's health nursing research. Emphasis on evaluation schema useful to researchers. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 556 | Developing Literature Reviews | 3 hours. | Prepares the student to conduct literature reviews in an area of interest and write a literature synthesis. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s); Open only to Ph.D. degree students; or consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 558 | Grant Writing for the Nurse Scientist | 3 hours. | Prepares students to submit their first competitive grant application for National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for predoctoral (F31) and postdoctoral (F32) fellowships. This course emphasizes the practical aspects of writing the grant proposal. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NURS 572 or consent of the instructor. Students will be expected to work closely with their advisor during this course and are encouraged to register for at least 1 credit hour of NUEL 596 with their advisor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 560 | Theoretical Basis for Primary Health Care | 3 hours. | Students analyze the conceptual basis of primary health care applicable to diverse communities and develop a primary health care model specific to a community of interest. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 561 | Ethical Issues in Primary Health Care | 3 hours. | Examination of the ethical components of primary health care as a philosophy, strategy, and level of care; and explication of personal framework for analysis of a specific health issue. Prerequisite(s): NUEL 560 or consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 562 | Primary Health Care Research Methods | 3 hours. | Conceptual issues, advanced methodologies and dissemination strategies for scientifically sound and policy relevant global primary health care research. Building community relationships for primary health care research. Prerequisite(s): NURS 572 and NUEL 560 or the equivalent or consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 563 | Neighborhoods and Health | 3 hours. | This interdisciplinary seminar explores theories and empirical evidence regarding the mechanisms by which neighborhoods affect health and contribute to health disparities. Same as CHSC 563. Prerequisite(s): Graduate or professional standing and an introductory graduate-level statistics course. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 564 | Quality of Life Issues in Research and Clinical Practice | 3 hours. | Quality of life: construct definition, ethical issues in clinical practice of nurses and other health professionals, measurement and research regarding various illness and age groups. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 565 | Advanced Research in Women's Health | 1 TO 2 hours. | Advanced seminar for doctoral students in graduate nursing concentration in women's health. Faculty and students present and critique on-going and developing research. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 570 | International Dimensions in Women's Health | 3 hours. | Critical examination of the health of women from a global perspective. Emphasizes resources and strategies nurse researchers use to monitor women's health across cultures and countries. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 571 | Leadership in International Health | 2 hours. | Examines the trends and issues involved in leadership development of health professionals for global health and discusses strategies to make impact on health care outcomes in the global village. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 575 | Minority Women's Health Nursing | 3 hours. | Theoretic and descriptive overview of the health concerns and health conditions of women from ethnic/racial minority backgrounds with implications for nursing research and practice. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 580 | Health Services and Health Behavior Research: Models and Frameworks | 3 hours. | Examines and critiques individual, systems, and community-level models and frameworks which guide health services delivery and health promotion behavior research. Prerequisite(s): NURS 570 and NURS 571; or consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 581 | Health Services and Health Behavior Research: Methods and Measurement | 3 hours. | Critically analyzes methodological and measurement issues which are important to advanced research in health services delivery and health promotion behavior. Prerequisite(s): NURS 572 and NURS 573 and NUEL 580; or consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 584 | Conducting Human Subjects Research | 1 TO 2 hours. | Topics include ethical principles that guide research, federal regulations, IRB guidelines, issues of informed consent and vulnerable populations, and other topics based on student interest. Prerequisite(s): NURS 572. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 594 | Special Topics: Advanced | 1 TO 3 hours. | Discusses selected topics of current interest. Offered according to sufficient student demand and instructor availability. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 595 | Seminar in Nursing | 1 TO 3 hours. | Identifies and analyzes a broad range of issues related to modern nursing and nursing 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. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Elective | NUEL | 596 | Independent Study: Graduate | 1 TO 4 hours. | Selected problems in nursing are investigated under the direction of a graduate faculty member. Modes of investigation are determined by the nature of the nursing problem selected. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |