| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 501 | Administrative Nursing Models | 2 hours. | Appraisal and synthesis of theory, research and practice in the organization and management of the delivery of nursing and healthcare services including currently used models of nursing care delivery. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 502 | Strategic Planning and Outcomes Evaluation for Clinical Programs | 3 hours. | Analysis of trends and issues affecting health care systems in the context of planning appropriate strategies for the development and growth of clinical programs and services. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 503 | Financial Resource Management for Nursing Decision Makers | 3 hours. | Provide the clinical decision maker with state of the art tools to plan, implement, and evaluate the financial viability of health care programs and initiatives. Prerequisite(s): Knowledge of Excel is required. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 504 | Healthcare Human Resources Management | 3 hours. | Focuses on the development of a strategic human resource plan to support the mission of the health care organization. Current human resources management and organizational performance research findings are explored. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 505 | Nursing Systems Operations Management | 3 hours. | Addresses nursing systems operations management of health services. Examines the managerial role at individual, program, work unit, department, and organizational levels. Includes focus on interaction of the organization and environment. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 507 | Advanced Community Health Nursing: Introduction and Interventions | 4 hours. | Addresses application of evidence-based population-focused interventions in health care organizations that promote wellness and improve community health status. Introduces leadership roles/concepts in advanced public health nursing practice. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 509 | Population-Focused Assessment | 3 hours. | Explores population-focused assessment in community and integrated healthcare systems emphasizing the application of assessment models used in health service delivery and market analysis. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in EPID 400. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 511 | Planning and Evaluation for Advanced Nursing Practice | 3 hours. | Explores strategic and program planning applications. Focuses on evaluation as a measurement of quality, performance, and impact of health services. Emphasizes interdisciplinary perspective and addresses integrated quality improvement systems. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 509. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 512 | Education Perspectives in School Health | 4 hours. | The scientific knowledge base of child development and educational psychology. Will explore the implications for classroom practice. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 513 | School Nursing Theory and Trends | 3 hours. | Explores population-focused frameworks, health needs, and legal mandates that impact school community. School nursing practice models are studied as relevant to developing leadership and management. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 514 | Occupational Health Nursing | 2 hours. | Theoretical bases for application of public health nursing practice to working populations in occupational settings. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 515 | Health Management in Primary Care I | 3 hours. | First of a three-course sequence in evidence-based health promotion, health maintenance, and health restoration using a lifespan developmental framework. Emphasizes wellness care. Prerequisite(s): NURS 532. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 516 | Health Management in Primary Care II | 3 hours. | Second in a three-course sequence in evidence-based health promotion, health maintenance, and health restoration using a lifespan developmental framework. Emphasizes common acute and chronic health problems. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 515. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 517 | Health Management in Primary Care III | 3 hours. | Last in a three-course sequence in evidence-based health promotion, health maintenance, and health restoration using a lifespan developmental framework. Emphasizes common chronic health problems and co-morbidities. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 516. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 518 | Population-Focused Interventions in Primary Care | 2 hours. | Population-focused assessment, program planning, and evaluation of interventions for community-based health care providers. Prerequisite(s): EPID 400. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 525 | Group Dynamics, Behavior and Intervention | 3 hours. | Concepts, theories and research pertaining to group dynamics and to interventions carried out in groups. Analysis of videotaped group experience. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 526 | Developmental, Behavioral Health and Interventions with Youth | 3 hours. | Normative and atypical developmental processes. Applications emphasize developmentally and culturally sensitive nursing assessment and intervention in children's lives to improve mental health outcomes. Prerequisite(s): NURS 527. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 527 | Behavioral Health Care I | 3 hours. | Common mental health problems presented in primary and community care settings. Focus on psychopathology, assessment and brief counseling interventions; crisis intervention and triage; emergency care. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 528 | Behavioral Health Care II | 3 hours. | Complex mental health problems experienced in psychiatric populations. Focus on stabilization and management of psychotic illnesses, dual diagnosis treatment models, psychoeducational models and psychiatric rehabilitation. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 527. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 529 | Family Behavioral Health | 2 hours. | Theories of family development and behavior; functional and dysfunctional communication and behavioral patterns. Theories and strategies for family assessment and intervention. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 534 | Management of Health and Illness I: Advanced Practice in Adult Nursing | 3 hours. | Advanced medical-surgical nursing covering etiology, clinical evaluation and management of specific health problems related to cardiovascular, pulmonary, and endocrine systems. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NURS 531, and credit or concurrent registration in NURS 532, and credit or concurrent registration in NURS 537. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 535 | Management of Health and Illness II: Advanced Practice in Adult Nursing | 3 hours. | Advanced medical-surgical nursing covering etiology, clinical evaluation and management of specific health problems related to neurological, gastrointestinal, immunologic, hematologic, renal and liver systems. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 534. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 548 | Biological Basis for Women's Health and Perinatal Nursing I | 2 hours. | Focuses on the anatomy and physiology of reproductive function, pregnancy, parturition, the puerperium and menopause as the biological basis for women's health and perinatal nursing. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 549 | Biological Basis for Women's Health and Perinatal Nursing II | 1 TO 2 hours. | The anatomy, physiology, and genetics of conception, embryonic development, and fetal and neonatal growth and development as the biological basis for women's health and perinatal nursing. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 548. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 550 | Issues for Research and Practice in Women's Health | 3 hours. | Analysis of gender-related definitions of health and illness in theory issues and research evaluation criteria for women's health care practice are developed as a basis for research. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 551 | Concepts for Pediatric/Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice I | 2 hours. | Students analyze theory and research related to the patient/family sphere of influence in order to design care for pediatric or perinatal patients and families. Prerequisite(s): NURS 530. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 552 | Concepts for Pediatric/Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist II | 2 hours. | Students analyze theories and research related to pediatric or perinatal nursing personnel and organizational spheres of influence. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 551. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 553 | Advanced Nursing Care of the Well Infant, Child and Adolescent | 3 hours. | Emphasizes prevention, health promotion and maintenance for all childhood age groups through teaching, counseling, guidance and support of children and their families. Prerequisite(s): NURS 532 and credit or concurrent registration in NURS 531 and credit or concurrent registration in NURS 535. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 554 | Primary Care Management of Acute/Chronic Conditions in Childhood | 3 hours. | Emphasizes clinical decision making and management of acute episodic illnesses and stable chronic illnesses commonly encountered in pediatric ambulatory health care settings. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 553. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 555 | Health Care of Women I | 4 hours. | Health care of women through the lifespan with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention, fertility control and pregnancy care. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NUSP 548; and credit or concurrent registration in NURS 532. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 556 | Health Care of Women II | 4 hours. | Health care of women through the lifespan with an emphasis on the parturition, the puerperium, and common health and pregnancy problems. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 549 and NUSP 555. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 557 | Health Care of Women III | 4 hours. | Health care of women through the lifespan with an emphasis on gynecolgic and primary care. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 556 and NURS 531 and NURS 532 and NURS 535. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 558 | Advanced Parent-Infant Nursing | 2 TO 3 hours. | Examines the process of parenting in low-risk and at-risk populations, and health status and behavior of the neonate. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 549 or NURS 535. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 559 | Dimensions of Midwifery and Women's Health Practice | 2 hours. | Examines the complex functions and roles of women's healthcare providers. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 557 and NUPR 572 and NURS 529. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 560 | Advanced Neonatal Management I: The High Risk Neonate | 3 hours. | Focuses on unique nursing care and neurodevelopmental needs and vulnerabilities of high-risk infants emphasizing patient and family centered care interventions that enhance development and outcomes. Prerequisite(s): NURS 532 and NURS 535 and NUSP 549. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 561 | Advanced Neonatal Management II: The Acutely Ill Infant | 3 hours. | Focuses on the assessment, stabilization, and theoretical management of acutely ill infants for common problems associated with prematurity emphasizing a patient and family centered care approach. Prerequisite(s): NURS 533 and NUSP 560. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 562 | Advanced Neonatal Management III: The Gravely Ill Infant | 3 hours. | Focuses on complex disturbances, alterations, and multi-organ interactions of the cardiopulmonary, neuromuscular, neurosurgical, renal, gastrointestinal systems emphasizing a patient and family centered care approach. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 561. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 563 | Essentials of Patient and Family Centered Care | 2 hours. | Analysis of theoretical and research components of socio-culturally appropriate patient and family centered care and its impact on patients, families, and health delivery. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 580 | Leadership Reflections: Building a Personal Map | 2 hours. | Reflective practice experience focuses learners to identify personal leadership styles and develop personal leadership growth plans. Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Executive Leadership Concentration of the Doctor of Nursing Practice. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 581 | Collaboration for Strategic Financial Management in Healthcare | 3 hours. | Builds on basic financial management skills to prepare the learner to synthesize financial theories and concepts in order to apply knowledge to strategic decision making. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 503 or equivalent course. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 582 | Ethical Leadership in Providing Healthcare | 2 hours. | Provides an opportunity for the student to analyze and critique current ethical issues impacting nurse leaders and formulate a personal ethics code. Prerequisite(s): NURS 528 or the equivalent and credit or concurrent registration in NURS 552. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 583 | Transforming the Healthcare Organization | 3 hours. | Builds on concepts from strategic management to provide a framework for the learner's synthesis project. Applications include: project management, strategic planning, change management processes applied in a transdisciplinary manner. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 502 or the equivalent and credit or concurrent registration in NURS 552. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 584 | Systems Approach to Healthcare Quality and Safety | 3 hours. | Focuses on the critical review of current quality and safety guidelines and systems impacting healthcare agencies. Prerequisite(s): NUSP 505 or the equivalent and credit or concurrent registration in NURS 552 and credit or concurrent registration in NUSP 583. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 585 | Seminar in Nursing Executive Leadership | 1 TO 3 hours. | Specific topics as announced each semester. In-depth study of selected current topics in executive leadership for nurse leaders. May be repeated. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 588 | Intermediate Epidemiology for Advanced Nursing Practice | 3 hours. | Provides intermediate level knowledge and skills in epidemiology for nurses and other public health practitioners. Addresses threats to validity and other issues of interpretation of designs. Prerequisite(s): EPID 400 or equivalent. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 589 | Grant Writing for Health Care Services | 3 hours. | Focuses on developing knowledge and application skills needed for successful health service programmatic grant writing. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in NUSP 507 or credit or concurrent registration in NURS 551; and credit or concurrent registration in NUSP 502 or credit or concurrent registration in NUSP 511; or consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 590 | Family-Focused Health Management in Primary Care | 3 hours. | Assessment and management of common behavioral, lifestyle, and life cycle issues in primary care using a family-focused approach. Prerequisite(s): NURS 532; or consent of the instructor. |
| Nursing Specialty | NUSP | 591 | Issues in Population Focused Nursing | 2 hours. | Provides introduction to leadership in population-focused nursing: philosophy, theory, roles, competencies, and interventions. |