26:705:504Human Diversity and Social Issues in the Community (3) Advanced nursing practice examined from epidemiological perspective in the context of cultural and social pluralism. Emphasis on multiple dimensions of human diversity with identification and assessment of vulnerable and undeserved populations and ethical issues. |
26:705:506Contemporary Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse (3) Establishes a theoretical context for role execution. Includes knowledge and strategies basic to practice as a teacher, manager, or provider of care. Analysis of the role of the nurse within the health care delivery system. Emphasis on practical issues and the influence of public policy, regulation, reimbursement, work-settings, and professional interrelationships. Focus on the nurse as change agent and evaluation of the effectiveness of nursing. |
26:705:510Theoretical Foundations of Nursing (3) Discusses the historical and philosophical bases for the development of a science, the components and processes of theory development, and their relationship to knowledge generation in the discipline of nursing. Analysis of existing conceptual models in nursing and their potential for and relevance to theory development, research, and practice. Identification and analysis of concepts relevant to theory development. Prerequisite: Descriptive and inferential statistics. |
26:705:512Research Methods in Nursing (3) Development of skills in the application of principles and methods of scientific research. Identification and conceptualization of a research problem relevant to nursing and the formulation of testable hypotheses. Emphasis on research designs and methodologies, the psychometric properties of instruments, sampling techniques, methods of data analysis, and interpretation of research findings. Focus on the scientific merit of empirical studies and ethical and legal considerations. Prerequisite: 26:705:510. |
26:705:513Psychopathological and Psychosocial Foundations in Advanced Nursing (3) Biologic and behavioral theories and research from a variety of disciplines, including nursing, for application of psychiatric assessment in primary care settings. Analyzes research and makes case studies for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disorders across the life span within a developmental framework that examines the manifestations of psychiatric illnesses in children, adolescents, adults, and the aged. |
26:705:520Advanced Health Assessment (3) Assessment competencies necessary for advanced practice nurses with emphasis on assessment skills and the client as an individual in context of the family. Focus on development of comprehensive understanding of clients for effective health care delivery. Pre- or corequisite: 26:120:547. |
26:705:538Pharmacodynamics for Primary Care (3) Designed to meet the needs of nurses in advanced practice who are eligible for prescriptive privileges. Focuses on pharmacological management of self-limited episodic complaints and stable chronic disease states across the life span, commonly managed by advanced practice nurses. |
