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Explores the economics of health care, the managed care environment, the nature of systems, and intellectual and technical skills essential for managing clinical outcomes.

Prerequisites: none. This course will provide an overview of the academic nurse educator role including functioning as a change agent and engaging in scholarship, service, and leadership.

Investigates the multiple roles of the teacher of nursing. Theories and concepts of learning, instruction, and evaluation receive priority in the course to inform classroom and clinical teaching and outcomes assessment.

Clinical component to accompany NRSG 6120.

Prerequisite: NRSG 6115. Focuses on design, implementation, and evaluation of computer-mediated instruction, distance learning, web-based instruction, and other instructional media. Co-requisite: NRSG 6120.

Prerequisites: none. This course focuses on internal and external evaluation of nursing educational programs, test and measurement theory and outcome measurements, including cognitive exam design.

Prerequisite: NRSG 6110. Focuses on the intellectual and technical functions and processes of health system management and examines organizational behavior, financial management, and optimal use of resources.

Clinical component to accompany NRSG 6210.

Provides understanding of relationship between normal processes of the human body and their alterations during disease and disorders. Both cellular and organ system functions are examined.

Offers students opportunities to participate in educational international exchanges abroad.

Examines, critiques, and applies nursing theories to professional nursing practice.

Provides graduate students in the MSN track with an opportunity to select among two options to demonstrate synthesis of core and major courses: thesis (TH) or, research project (RP).

Prerequisites: NRSG 6724, MMIS 6296, and MMIS 6298. Focuses on application of informatics theories, management principles, processes and outcomes in the real-world healthcare work environment.

Clinical component to accompany NRSG 6760.

Prerequisite: Graduate Nursing program only; Permission of faculty. Variable credit hours available. This course provides for additional supervised clinical hours in an advanced practice role. Requires approval of the faculty prior to registration.