Advance Professional Nursing
Courses
NUPR 520 Nurse Practitioner Clinical Orientation Seminar 0.0 Credits
The Nurse Practitioner Clinical Preparation Seminar serves as a clinical orientation for all nurse practitioner students who will be starting their clinical practicum sequence of the nurse practitioner program. The course introduces students to the clinical support services, the clinical requirements of their specific population specialty, the clinical contracting process, and the clinical compliance process. Students engage in starting the process to complete their pre-clinical requirements, which fosters a seamless transition to their population-focused clinical course sequence.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 530 Introduction to Advanced Practice Nursing: Professional and Self Development 3.0 Credits
This course provides the necessary foundation for beginning nursing graduate students to learn skills necessary for formal academic success while also supporting their personal development as scholars and future advanced practice nurses. Students will be introduced to technologies needed for learning and writing. Purposeful course teaching and learning activities will cultivate understanding of and appreciation for professionalism as a critical component of academic, practice, and personal development.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 531 Evidence-Based Practice: Processes, Structures and Impact 3.0 Credits
This course provides the student with the content expertise necessary to begin a trajectory of acquiring the skills and critical understanding needed for evidence-based practice, particularly as a developing advanced practice registered nurse. Clinical/practice questions are posed using problem, intervention, comparison, outcomes and time (PICOT) structures. Search construction strategies and web-based/data-based tools designed to retrieve published, peer-reviewed science as well as gray literature are addressed. The course offers students the foundation needed for making decisions about the applicability of research and professional work-products to nursing practice and to collaborative efforts with interprofessional colleagues.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 532 Appraising Quantitative Evidence: Research Designs and Methodologies I 2.0 Credits
This course addresses the quantitative research paradigm, focusing on the understanding of rigorous, well-constructed studies to inform evidence-based nursing. The research process and its major components are examined to prepare students for critically appraising quantitative studies. Students learn to identify threats to validity and to recognize Type 1 and 2 errors. Course content assists in accurately identifying research study designs to ensure critical appraisal tools are used to make decisions about the applicability and utility. Theoretical consistency is examined and high-frequency concerns, including power analyses, sampling plans, instrumentation selection, reliability and validity, are reviewed to prepare students to appraise, synthesize and apply research findings to practice problems.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 531 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 533 Appraising Qualitative Evidence: Research Designs and Methodologies II 2.0 Credits
This course addresses the qualitative research paradigm and focuses on developing students’ understanding of methodologically sound descriptive studies that contribute to evidence-based nursing practice. Naturalistic research study designs and methods are examined. Students explore strategies that ensure trustworthiness, including verification, audit trails, and, if appropriate, member and peer checks. Course content assists students in accurately utilizing critical appraisal tools for descriptive studies. Qualitative research is explored within the context of hierarchies of evidence. Students are familiarized with unique barriers to incorporating qualitative evidence into evidence-based practice and strategies for addressing these challenges.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 531 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 534 Environmental Health: Sustainability, Climate Change and Green Initiatives 3.0 Credits
The purpose of this course is to provide graduate students with expertise in environmental conscientiousness; climate change and its impact on health; and, opportunities within healthcare systems to reduce wastefulness and toxic chemical exposures. Environmental stewardship is considered from an interprofessional, collaborative vantage point.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 600 Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics 5.0 Credits
This course is designed to build on prior pharmacologic study of actions and effects of drugs on the human system across the life span. Students will study pharmacologic mechanisms of action, effects on organ systems, routes of administration, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, therapeutic uses, considerations related to age and physiologic state, adverse reactions, contraindications, and drug interactions. The course is designed to build and enhance clinical decision making on pharmacologic therapy in advanced practice.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 548 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 601 Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning 5.0 Credits
This course is designed to introduce the experienced nurse to advanced health assessment techniques and diagnostic reasoning. The content of this course focuses on advanced clinical history taking, and physical and psychosocial assessment of individuals/families across the lifespan. Differentiation of normal variations and pathophysiologic changes are emphasized integrating advanced diagnostic reasoning within the scope of advanced practice nursing.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 548 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 600 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 602 Foundations for Clinical Nurse Leader 5.0 Credits
First of 3 CNL clinical courses in the track. Students experience point of care management of cohorts of clients with an interdisciplinary team model and from a Microsystems perspective. Integrates core and support course content into assessment, diagnosis and of health and illness conditions of adult clients. Concepts, theories, & research related to health promotion, illness management, risk identification and reduction to improve client safety are addressed. Emphasizes collaboration and interdisciplinary approach.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 500 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 502 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 544 [Min Grade: B] and RSCH 503 [Min Grade: B] and RSCH 504 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 531 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 532 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 605 Quality Improvement: Applying Science to Improve Processes and Outcomes 2.5 Credits
The purpose of this course is to provide graduate students with the expertise necessary for leading and/or contributing to quality improvement projects within varying types of healthcare systems to enhance outcomes by improving processes and/or organizational structures and designs. Knowledge, skills and attitudes related to patient-centered care; teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety and informatics will be investigated. Reports, recommendations and evidence-driven toolkits will be reviewed and applied to select practice problems, including those available through the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research and the Institute of Medicine.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 530 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 531 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 606 Safety Science: Reducing Risk and Harm 2.5 Credits
The purpose of this course is to provide graduate students with safety science expertise in accordance with DNP Essentials’ expectations as well as Graduate Quality Safety Education for Nurses’ competencies. Safety science is viewed as a critical component of high quality care. Healthy work environments are examined within the context of patient safety and work culture. Sources of patient safety science are explored and used to inform analyses and problem identification/solving activities.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 530 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 531 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 607 Clinical Ethics and Health Law 3.0 Credits
This course provides graduate students with the critical thinking framework and content expertise necessary for thoughtful, ethical and legal analysis and decision-making when confronted with simple and complex situations in professional practice. Students are recognized as practice leaders with daily responsibilities for decisions that demand understanding of legal and ethical theories, philosophies, and duties.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 610 AGACNP I: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Populations I 5.0 Credits
This is the first course in a series of four clinical courses for the graduate student studying to become an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. This course is designed to introduce the student to the role of the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in adult acute/critical and chronic healthcare settings, focusing on principles in inpatient/hospitalist medicine. This course fosters the development of adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 530 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 531 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 532 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 533 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 534 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 600 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 605 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 606 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 607 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 601 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 548 [Min Grade: B] and RSCH 519 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 611 AGACNP II: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Populations II 5.0 Credits
This is the second course in a series of four clinical courses for the graduate student studying to become an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. This course is designed to foster development of clinical competency and role transition in the setting of acute care and internal medicine. This course fosters the development of adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 610 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 612 AGACNP III: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Populations III 5.0 Credits
This is the third course in a series of four clinical courses for the graduate student studying to become an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. This course is designed to foster ongoing development of clinical competency and role transition in the setting of acute surgical patients in the preoperative and postoperative settings. This course fosters the development of adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 611 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 613 AGACNP IV: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Populations IV 5.0 Credits
This is the fourth course in a series of four clinical courses for the graduate student studying to become an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. This course is designed to foster ongoing development of clinical competency and role transition in the setting of critically ill adult and older-adult patients. This course fosters the development of adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 612 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 618 Nursing Education Practicum I 3.0 Credits
The nursing education practicum course allows students the opportunity to apply knowledge and demonstrate competence in the areas of nursing education and their clinical specialty, under the supervision of a preceptor. Students will take NUPR 618 – Nursing Education Practicum I immediately followed by NUPR 619- Nursing Education Practicum II. The courses must be taken in sequence to allow for a seamless practicum experience.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 616 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 619 Nursing Education Practicum II 3.0 Credits
The nursing education practicum course allows students the opportunity to apply knowledge and demonstrate competence in the areas of nursing education and their clinical specialty, under the supervision of a preceptor. During NUPR 619 – Nursing Education Practicum II, students will expand on their work in NUPR 618 – Nursing Education Practicum I to deepen their knowledge of nursing education. The courses must be taken in sequence to allow for a seamless practicum experience.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 618 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 620 AGPCNP I: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Populations I 5.0 Credits
This is the first course in a series of four clinical courses for the graduate student studying to become an Adult-Gerontology Primary Care (AGPC) Nurse Practitioner. This course will introduce the student to the role while focusing on the young-adult to the older adult, across the wellness-illness continuum. This course fosters the development of adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 530 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 531 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 532 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 533 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 534 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 600 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 601 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 605 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 606 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 607 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 548 [Min Grade: B] and RSCH 519 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 621 AGPCNP II: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Populations II 5.0 Credits
This is the second course in a series of four clinical courses for the graduate student studying to become an Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGNP). This course is designed to foster development of clinical competency and role transition in the setting of primary medicine for the young-old and older-adult patient population. This course fosters the development of adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 620 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 622 AGPCNP III: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Populations III 5.0 Credits
This is the third course in a series of four clinical courses for the graduate student studying to become an Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGNP). This course is designed to further develop clinical competency to provide a multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach to the older adult in the primary and long-term care setting. This course fosters the development of adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 621 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 623 AGPCNP IV: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Populations IV 5.0 Credits
This is the fourth course in a series of four clinical courses for the graduate student studying to become an Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. This course is designed to further develop clinical competency to provide a multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach to the older adult in the primary and long-term care setting. This course fosters the development of adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 622 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 630 FNP I: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Primary Care Across the Lifespan I 5.0 Credits
This course introduces the student to the nurse practitioner role in primary care management across the lifespan. Students explore the concepts inherent in cognitive theories and Healthy People determinants with emphasis placed on the development of client-centered, culturally appropriate delivery of health promotion, illness prevention, risk reduction and evidenced-based practice. Clinical management of specific common acute/chronic conditions are initiated. This course fosters the development of family nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 530 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 531 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 532 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 533 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 534 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 600 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 601 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 605 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 606 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 607 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 548 [Min Grade: B] and RSCH 519 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 631 FNP II: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Primary Care Across the Lifespan II 5.0 Credits
This course expands the student’s exposure to the nurse practitioner role in primary care management of individuals across the lifespan. This course builds on the diagnosis/management of acute/episodic and chronic conditions common in primary care. Students will continue to apply the concepts of cognitive theories and Healthy People determinants promoting quality of life, healthy development, and health behaviors. Professional issues affecting the novice practitioner will be addressed. This course fosters the development of family nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 630 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 632 FNP III: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Primary Care Across the Lifespan III 5.0 Credits
This course expands the student’s exposure to the NP role in primary care for clients across the lifespan. This course builds knowledge in diagnosis and management of acute/episodic and chronic. The students will continue to apply the concepts of cognitive theories and Healthy People determinants of promoting quality of life, healthy development, and health behaviors across all life stages. Professional issues impacting the advanced nursing role and moving toward the utilization of full scope of practice are addressed. This course fosters evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 631 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 633 FNP IV: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Primary Care Across the Lifespan IV 5.0 Credits
This final course in the primary healthcare clinical sequence will cover theoretical content of common acute and chronic conditions across the lifespan. Transition to the nurse practitioner role in ensuring quality care through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification and evaluation is emphasized. This course focuses on implementing and evaluating comprehensive plans of care for complex conditions; identifying/evaluating professional issues; and contributing full scope of practice initiatives. This course fosters the development of family nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 632 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 640 PMHNP I: Advanced Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Theoretical Foundations and Psychopathology I 5.0 Credits
This course introduces conceptual models and theories of advanced psychiatric mental health nursing practice. The course integrates assessment, diagnosis and treatment of the adult and older adult clients with major mental health disorders, incorporating eclectic content and evidenced based practices from the sciences. Students integrate and apply theory and practice of PMHNP both in the classroom and in a supervised clinical practicum. This course fosters the development of psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced therapeutic interventions, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 530 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 531 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 532 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 533 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 534 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 600 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 601 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 605 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 606 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 607 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 548 [Min Grade: B] and RSCH 519 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 641 PMHNP II: Advanced Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Theoretical Foundations and Psychopathology II 5.0 Credits
This course expands upon conceptual models and theories of advanced psychiatric mental health nursing practice. Students apply knowledge of foundational concepts and clinical skills to special populations. Integrative medical care of the psychiatric patient is emphasized in this course with consideration to common comorbidities and differential diagnoses. Students integrate and apply theory and practice of PMHNP both in the classroom and in a supervised clinical practicum. This course fosters the development of psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced therapeutic interventions, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 640 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 642 PMHNP III: Advanced Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Theoretical Foundations and Psychopathology III 5.0 Credits
This course discusses conceptual models and theories of advanced psychiatric mental health nursing practice with application to the child and adolescent population and their families. The course integrates assessment, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders of children and adolescents. Students integrate and apply theory and practice of PMHNP both in the classroom and in a supervised clinical practicum.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 641 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 643 PMHNP IV: Advanced Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Theoretical Foundations and Psychopathology IV 5.0 Credits
This course focuses on the conceptual theories and applied modalities of individual, family, and group psychotherapy within advanced psychiatric mental health nursing practice. Students apply knowledge of psychotherapeutic concepts and strategies in the care of psychiatric patients both in the classroom and in the supervised clinical practicum. This course fosters the development of psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced therapeutic interventions, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 642 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 650 WHNP I: Evidence-Based Clinical Management of Gynecologic/Gender-Related Issues I 5.0 Credits
This is the first course in a series of four clinical courses for the graduate student who is studying to become a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP). This course is designed to introduce the WHNP student to the gynecological needs of women and their partners from puberty throughout the post reproductive years. This course fosters the development of women’s health nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 530 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 531 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 532 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 533 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 534 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 600 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 601 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 605 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 606 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 607 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 548 [Min Grade: B] and RSCH 519 [Min Grade: b]
NUPR 651 WHNP II: Evidence-Based Clinical Management of Gynecologic/Gender-Related Issues II 5.0 Credits
This is the second women's health course in a series of four clinical courses for the graduate student who is studying to become a WHNP. This course is designed to build upon the didactic and clinical content presented in NUPR 650 by addressing more complex gender related issues throughout the lifespan. This course fosters the development of women’s health nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 650 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 652 WHNP III: Evidence-Based Management for Low-Risk Obstetric/Postpartum Needs of Women/Families 5.0 Credits
This course is designed to introduce the WHNP student to low-risk obstetrical assessment and care of the pregnant woman, the fetus, and the family unit. Critical analysis of clinical strategies and interventions in health promotion, health maintenance, disease prevention in obstetrics as well as management of common, uncomplicated OB conditions will be thoroughly investigated during this course. This course fosters the development of women’s health nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 651 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 653 WHNP IV: Evidence-Based Management for High Risk Obstetric/Post-Partum Needs of Women/Families 5.0 Credits
This is the fourth course in a series of four clinical courses for the graduate student who is studying to become a WH/GR NP. The course is designed to introduce the WHNP student to the assessment of high-risk obstetrical care of the pregnant woman, the fetus, and the family unit. This course fosters the development of women’s health nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 652 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 660 ENP I: Evidence-Based Emergency/Trauma Care Across the Lifespan I 5.0 Credits
This is the first course in a series of three specialized clinical courses for the post-graduate FNP studying to be an emergency nurse practitioner (ENP). This course introduces the ENP student to the specialized care of the patient in the emergency care setting (ECS) including clinical decision-making skills necessary to manage common illness and injury across the lifespan. Students are taught the basic skills of assessment, interpretation of diagnostic studies, interventions, and treatments unique to the ECS. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 600 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 601 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 548 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 661 ENP II: Evidence-Based Emergency/Trauma Care Across the Lifespan II 5.0 Credits
This is the second course in a series of three specialized clinical courses for the post-graduate FNP studying to be an emergency nurse practitioner (ENP). This course continues to prepare the ENP student to the specialized care of the patient in the emergency care setting (ECS). Students are taught the skills of assessment, interpretation of diagnostic studies, interventions, and treatments unique to the ECS at an advanced level, thereby enhancing clinical decision making for common illness and injury across the lifespan. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 660 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 662 ENP III: Evidence-Based Emergency/Trauma Care for the Trauma and Critically Ill Patient 5.0 Credits
This is the final specialized clinical courses for the post-graduate FNP studying to be an emergency nurse practitioner (ENP). Building upon prior clinical ENP experiences, this course teaches the student how to care for patients of the highest acuity levels. Topics of pre-hospital care, initiation of care to the trauma and critically ill patient, and transport of patients to a higher level of care. The culmination of the ENP education and transition into the ENP role is also be covered. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 661 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 663 Communication and Self-Awareness for Leadership 4.5 Credits
This course focuses on the central role that self plays in leadership and communication skills. By performing self-observations and analyses, students will analyze the role of self in communication and gain an appreciation of the complexities of interpersonal communication. The course also explores enhanced communication skills for use in teams and organizational settings.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 664 The Economics and Business of Healthcare 4.5 Credits
This course provides a forum for the exploration and evaluation of the fundamentals of economics, financial management and the financial environment of the healthcare industry. The student will develop an understanding of economics and financial management in a climate of decreased government funding, shared cost mechanisms and decreased personnel resources in addition to basic financial management principles and tools.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 665 Managing Operations and Human Resources for Quality Outcomes of Care Delivery 4.5 Credits
The rapidly changing healthcare environment and ongoing demands for increased productivity, quality, and service excellence have resulted in a renewed emphasis on operational efficiency in the delivery of health care services and nursing care. This course will examine critical issues related to structuring patient care delivery models and clinical practice for quality and efficiency. Pertinent legal and ethical considerations will be threaded through the content.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 670 PNP I: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Infants, Children, and Adolescents in Primary Care I 5.0 Credits
This course provides the pediatric nurse practitioner student with an introduction to the conceptual and scientific basis for meeting the health needs of diverse pediatric populations in the primary care setting. Course content and clinical experiences prepare the student to assume the role of primary care provider for children from birth through adolescence. This course fosters the development of pediatric nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 530 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 531 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 532 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 533 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 534 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 600 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 601 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 605 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 606 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 607 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 548 [Min Grade: B] and RSCH 519 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 671 PNP II: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Infants, Children, and Adolescents in Primary Care II 5.0 Credits
This course provides the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner student with an introduction to episodic and emergency management of infants, children and adolescents. This course will prepare the student to assume the role of primary care provider, and to support the collaborative responsibility of other health care members in meeting the healthcare needs of children from birth through adolescence. This course fosters the development of pediatric nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 670 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 672 PNP III: Evidence-Based Clinical Management for Adolescents in Primary Care 5.0 Credits
This course focuses on the assessment, diagnosis and management of common health issues of adolescence. Reproductive health management and anticipatory guidance unique to the adolescent population will be discussed. Course content and clinical experiences prepare the student to assume the role of primary care provider to adolescents. This course fosters the development of pediatric nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 671 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 673 PNP IV: Evidence-Based Management of Children with Special Health Care Needs in Primary Care 5.0 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the practice of the Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in managing the chronically ill children in an outpatient clinical setting. Emphasis is placed on the assessment, diagnosis and management of common chronic health problems in infants, children and adolescents in a primary care setting. Course content focuses on the management of patients with chronic illness. This course fosters the development of pediatric nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 672 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 680 ACPNP I: Evidence-Based Acute-Chronic Care of Infants, Children and Adolescents I 5.0 Credits
This clinical course will provide the novice acute-chronic PNP student with higher appreciation of the pathophysiological basis and management of acute-chronic health disorders with children and their families. Emphasis is placed on critical assessment stratagems, pharmacological treatments, current research, and treatment of children with complex acute-chronic health conditions with a multicultural perspective. This course fosters the development of pediatric nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 670 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 681 ACPNP II: Evidence-Based Acute-Chronic Care of Infants, Children and Adolescents II 5.0 Credits
The course builds upon preceding acute- chronic course content and prepares students to perform critical assessment, diagnosis and management of emerging crisis and organ system dysfunction in children with acute- chronic health conditions. The course emphasizes stabilizing patients, reducing complications, restoring optimal health, providing psychosocial support to pediatric patients and their families. This course fosters the development of pediatric nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 680 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 682 ACPNP III: Evidence-Based Management of the Medically Fragile and Technology Dependent Child 5.0 Credits
This course will provide students with higher appreciation of the role of the Acute-Chronic Pediatric Nurse Practitioner managing children with chronic health disorders and specialized needs transitioning into different sites of care. Students will focus on the strategies within the community, home-based interventions, coordination of services, and collaboration of care. This course fosters the development of pediatric nurse practitioners in providing evidence-based clinical care through the integration of advanced diagnostic reasoning, advanced medical intervention, and advanced pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Faculty-supervised clinical practicum is required in this course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 670 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 700 Global Health: Disparities, Social Justice, and Evidence-Based interventions 3.0 Credits
This course encourages students to consider health and nursing as global enterprises with the capacity to improve planetary health by responding to practice needs and professional obligations that require immersion and cultural humility. Students will learn evidence-based strategies to affect social determinants of health. They will examine key international reports, agendas, sustainable development goals and the works of international agencies. The course explores interprofessional collaboration as a strategy to improve global health.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NURS 706 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 701 Evidence-based Practice: Research-driven Health Care Delivery 3.0 Credits
This course is designed to assist students in building evidence-based practice (EBP) expertise. Students will identify and define practice problems and incorporate this understanding into comprehensive database and gray literature searches designed to reveal relevant research and science. Studies will be appraised and synthesized to reveal potential science-driven interventions that are anticipated to improve or resolve the practice problem. Organizational culture and structures will be considered as important influences in the uptake of EBP by nurses and interprofessional colleagues.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if program is DRNP.
NUPR 702 Research Methodologies Seminar 1.0 Credit
This course is designed to assist students in solidifying their understanding of the research process. Learning opportunities will assist students in preparing for research study appraisal and evidence synthesis. Qualitative and quantitative paradigms will be explored. Common sampling strategies, instrumentation concerns, and data analysis techniques (parametric and non-parametric) will be considered.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if program is DRNP.
NUPR 703 Nursing Knowledge Development: Ways of Knowing 2.0 Credits
This course is designed to help students explore the development of nursing knowledge and its relationship to practice. A critical analysis of historical and contemporary views of nursing science knowledge development and the evolution of nursing inquiry will be addressed. Approaches to concept analysis will be an integral part of this course. Students will examine the role that theory plays in research and evidence-based nursing practice. Students will consider opportunities to improve health outcomes and care delivery processes within the context of theory application.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 704 Evaluating Research Quality: Evidence Appraisal 1.0 Credit
This course is constructed to provide students with opportunities to select and apply critical appraisal tools to selected research studies. Students will learn to recognize critical components of published scientific studies and gray literature and evaluate the rigor and relevance of quantitative and qualitative studies retrieved via a methodical search. There will be opportunities for students to summarize and present research findings to student-colleagues using various communication modalities.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if program is DRNP.
NUPR 705 Health Policy and Politics: Nurses Influencing Health 3.0 Credits
This course prepares students to lead and participate in health policy development and policy implementation across all levels of systems. Students explore political activism and policy development as critical elements of professional nursing practice and as obligations of service-leadership on behalf of the public and the profession. Students consider the politics that influence policy development and consider economic factors that are relevant to potential policy discussions. Practice opportunities expose students to policy discussions and decisions that occur within and across diverse settings and systems of varying complexity and size.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 706 Improving Quality and Safety of Health Care Delivery 4.5 Credits
This course provides graduate students with the expertise necessary for leading and/or contributing to quality improvement projects and science-driven safety initiatives within varying types of healthcare systems to enhance outcomes by improving processes and/or organizational structures and designs. Knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to patient-centered care; teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety and informatics will be investigated. Reports, recommendations, and evidence-driven toolkits will be reviewed and applied to select practice problems. Safety science is viewed as a critical component of high-quality care. Graduate students participate in interprofessional practice activities directly related to quality improvement and/or safety.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 707 Health Law and Clinical Practice/Organizational Ethics 3.0 Credits
This course provides graduate students with the critical thinking framework and content expertise necessary for thoughtful, ethical and legal analyses and decision-making when confronted with simple and complex situations that occur during professional practice and administrative activities. Nursing’s code of ethics and its interpretive statements are carefully explored. Practice hours provide opportunities for students to witness various activities that pertain to health-related organizational processes that connect to ethical decision-making and law/risk management.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if program is DRNP.
NUPR 708 Leading Projects and Evaluating Programs in Nursing and Healthcare Systems 2.0 Credits
This course prepares students to evaluate nursing and other interprofessional health programs, craft measurable outcomes in partnership with stakeholders and manage projects that often connect in various ways to health programs.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 710 Evaluating Health Programs and Managing Projects 3.0 Credits
This course prepares students to evaluate health programs, craft measurable outcomes in partnership with stakeholders and manage projects that often connect in various ways to health programs. These transferrable skills will inform subsequent Doctor of Nursing Practice project construction, management and evaluation activities as well as guiding other types of academic and professional projects.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is NUOL.
NUPR 715 Health Policy and Politics 4.0 Credits
This course prepares students to lead and participate in policy development and policy implementation across all levels of systems. Students explore political activism and policy development as critical elements of professional nursing practice and as obligations of service-leadership on behalf of the public and the profession.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 716 Leadership and Management in Healthcare Delivery Systems 3.0 Credits
This course prepares students to consider how they might enhance their personal leadership abilities and further develop the managerial skills necessary to create and support healthcare systems of varying types, sizes and levels to achieve quality outcomes, including effective financing/payment mechanisms, appropriate technologies, suitable human capital/labor utilization considerations and patient-centered care.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
NUPR 781 Advanced Clinical Practice Specialization 4.5 Credits
This purpose of this course is to support and enhance students’ advanced practice or advanced leadership/administrative expertise within a specialty area or with a specialization focus. Experiences will be directed by careful self-appraisal and consideration of advanced clinical practice or administration professional aspirations and requirements with the end-goal of improving healthcare/health care processes and outcomes.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if program is DRNP.
NUPR 782 DNP Scholarly Project Seminar 1: Planning Practice Change 3.0 Credits
This purpose of this course is to support and enhance students’ expertise in devising solutions to practice problems using evidence-based practice strategies. Students will construct a proposed DNP Scholarly Project that demonstrates progression toward achieving required competencies. Students will identify practice problems and solutions as they relate to the student’s area of academic focus; specifically, advanced clinical expertise or nurse executive/leadership expertise.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if program is DRNP.
Prerequisites: NUPR 701 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 702 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 703 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 704 [Min Grade: B] and NURS 706 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 706 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 707 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 708 [Min Grade: B] and RSCH 519 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 783 DNP Scholarly Project Seminar 2: Implementing and Evaluating Practice Change 4.5 Credits
This purpose of this course is to implement and complete the DNP Scholarly Project Proposal that was designed during NURS 782: Seminar 1: Planning Practice Change. Students are required to demonstrate DNP competencies and participate in a dissemination activity at the conclusion of the project.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if program is DRNP.
Prerequisites: NUPR 782 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 785 Changing Practice Using Evidence 6.0 Credits
The purpose of this course is for doctoral students in either the advanced clinical expert or nurse executive leadership pathways to demonstrate their developing expertise in DNP competencies by identifying a practice problem or opportunity for improvement and designing a change project in response to this concern that is informed by evidence that has been acquired through a comprehensive search of published science and gray literature. Students will preferably implement this project and evaluate the findings. Faculty supervision and approval will be required.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if program is DRNP.
NUPR 788 DNP Scholarly Project: Project Completion 1.0-2.0 Credit
The purpose of this course is to provide additional opportunities for DNP Scholarly Project completion, including practicum experiences and further research with guidance from the supervising professor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 1 times for 4 credits
Restrictions: Can enroll if program is DRNP.
Prerequisites: NUPR 783 [Min Grade: B] or NUPR 785 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 800 DNP Project Seminar I: Planning and Designing 4.0 Credits
This purpose of this course is to formalize the assessment, planning, and design phases of the DNP Project, including proposed quality improvement methodology and analysis. Students will plan and design a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Project that focuses on a system (micro, meso or macro) or population/aggregate change that impacts healthcare/health outcomes via direct or indirect care interventions. Students will examine evidence via a well-constructed search that is connected to a PICO/T question related to the practice/clinical problem of interest. Each student will propose an evaluation of processes and/or outcomes that include an analysis of the proposed project’s clinical significance and incorporates a plan for sustaining the designed change.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 710 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 801 Advanced Specialization Practicum 4.0 Credits
This course focuses on building the depth and/or breadth of Doctor of Nursing Practice students’ advanced nursing practice expertise. Students will construct an individualized plan for building advanced practice within a specialty that may be identified by population, problem typology, practice setting, type of care, or disease/specialty. Students will relate this advanced specialization focus to the DNP Project in some meaningful way. Practicum hours will address expertise and competence development within the specialty and skill/knowledge acquisition will be partially or fully demonstrated via the DNP Project. Course activities will encourage students’ skill set development in self-appraisal, project management, interprofessional collaboration and communication.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 800 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 802 DNP Project Seminar II: Implementation, Evaluation, and Dissemination 4.5 Credits
This purpose of this course is to complete the Doctor of Nursing Practice Project, measure its effect on the practice problem/outcome/variable of interest, and conclude with an evaluation using post-mortem project management techniques. Project dissemination opportunities will be considered. A professional presentation with a written executive summary of the completed project will be the final course work product.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 800 [Min Grade: B] and NUPR 801 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR 805 Leading by Transforming and Partnering: The Future of Nursing 4.5 Credits
This course encourages students’ consideration of their obligations to the profession. Students explore the historical trajectory of professional associations and organizations in nursing to facilitate understanding of nursing’s potential future and the influence that DNP prepared nurses potentially offer to this prospect. Students consider nursing’s rich history of activism. Nursing’s organizations and associations are considered critical for the proactive work and enculturation necessary to maintain a healthy profession that satisfies the requirements of its social contract. Students participate in exploring professional opportunities and engage in organizational/association networking prospects as efforts to connect and contribute to the profession beyond practice and/or employment.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: NUPR 783 [Min Grade: B]
NUPR I599 Independent Study in Advanced Professional Nursing 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed course within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
NUPR I699 Independent Study in Advanced Professional Nursing 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed course within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
NUPR I799 Independent Study in Advanced Professional Nursing 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed course within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
NUPR I899 Independent Study in Advanced Professional Nursing 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed course within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
NUPR T580 Special Topics in Advanced Professional Nursing 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
NUPR T680 Special Topics in Advanced Professional Nursing 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
NUPR T780 Special Topics in Advanced Professional Nursing 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
NUPR T880 Special Topics in Advanced Professional Nursing 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit