6000

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.

Focuses on design, implementation, and evaluation of computer-mediated instruction, distance learning, web-based instruction, and other instructional media. Co-requisite: NRSG 6121L.

Focuses on design, implementation, and evaluation of computer-mediated instruction, distance learning, web-based instruction, and other instructional media. Co-requisite: NRSG 6121.

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.

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.

In this course students synthesize learning across the program to develop a learning contract to address achievement of the program outcomes. Contracts will be carried out in NRSG 6551 (Graduate Nursing Practicum).

Prerequisite: NRSG 6500. Interprets responses of adults to chronic health problems throughout the continuum of care and identifies specialized interventions within the roles and domains of advanced practice. Co-requisite NRSG 6551L.

Clinical component to accompany NRSG 6551.

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).

The topics in this course are individualized based on the student's learning needs, interest, and professional goals. Variable credit = 1-3 credit hours.

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.