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Nursing & Health Care Services Courses Available for Faculty Approval |
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| Nursing / Health Care Services (NUR / HCS) | |||
| HCS/408 | Therapeutic Health Care Communications | ||
| HCS/418 | Skills for Professional Transition | ||
| HCS/426 | Management & Organizational Behavior in Health Care | ||
| HCS/501 | Introduction to Graduate Studies | ||
| HCS/505 | Advanced Pathophysiology | ||
| HCS/507 | Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics | ||
| HCS/520 | Health Care Infrastructure | ||
| HCS/523 | Health Promotion/Prevention | ||
| HCS/581.3 | Change/Negotiation/Conflict Resolution in Health Care | ||
| HCS/582 | Health Care Finance | ||
| HCS/583 | Data Based Clinical Decision Making | ||
| NUR/401 | Theoretical Foundations of Professional Nursing | ||
| NUR/417 | Pathphysiology & Health Assessment I | ||
| NUR/418 | Pathphysiology & Health Assessment II | ||
| NUR/429 | Issues & Strategies in Nursing Research Utilization | ||
| NUR/452 | Health Law & Ethics | ||
| NUR/464 | Concepts of Family Nursing Theory | ||
| NUR/465 | Clinical Integration: Nursing Management of Families | ||
| NUR/471 | Dimensions of Community Nursing Practices | ||
| NUR/472 | Clinical Integration: Partnerships in Community Practice | ||
| NUR/485 | Nursing Leadership & Management in Healthcare | ||
| NUR/515.3 | Advanced Nursing Theory | ||
| NUR/540 | Advanced Nursing Management: Individuals & Families | ||
| NUR/543 | Advanced Nursing Management: Communities | ||
| NUR/576 | Ethical Issues in Nursing | ||
| NUR/584 | Dynamics of Nursing Administration | ||
| NUR/586.3 | Curriculum Development & Program Design | ||
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| Nursing / Health Care Services Course Descriptions | ||||
| HCS/408 | Therapeutic Health Care Communications | BSN | ||
| Recognizing the importance of effective therapeutic communication in the three roles of caregiver, teacher, and manager of care, this course is designed to explore the knowledge and skills required to communicate therapeutically with clients. The use of self is developed as a therapeutic agent with peers, clients, and other health care providers, taking into consideration the multi-cultural aspects of communication. | ||||
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| HCS/418 | Skills for Professional Transition | BSN BSNB | ||
| This course is designed to emphasize professional skills. Students will have an opportunity to analyze their strengths in writing, oral presentations, interpersonal relationships and organizational skills. Focus will be on developing strategies to enhance professionalism. | ||||
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| HCS/426 | Management & Organizational Behavior in Health Care | BSN | ||
| This course includes the study of management techniques, organizational theory, leader-ship and their application to the development of the nurse's role as the manager of care. The managerial function of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling are explored in the context of both individual and group behavior as experienced in health care systems. | ||||
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| HCS/501 | Introduction to Graduate Studies | MN | ||
| This course introduces students to the basic knowledge and skills needed to be successful during their graduate program at UOP. Course content emphasizes professional role development, UOP's learning model, program policies and procedures, academic and ethical standards, oral and written communication skills, group dynamics and study skills resources. | ||||
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| HCS/505 | Advanced Pathophysiology | FNP/WHCNP | ||
| This course provides students with advanced anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of systems in relation to an individual’s health across the lifespan. Focus is given to the physiological and biological manifestations and adaptive and changes which occur in the individual’s and family’s health. The knowledge gained in this course lays a foundation for the management of primary care issues of the family and its members. | ||||
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| HCS/507 | Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics | FNP/WHCNP | ||
| This course is designed to provide the nurse practitioner student with the information and skills to initiate and monitor drug therapy. The course will integrate advanced knowledge regarding the clinical application of pharmacology and pharmacokinetics, techniques and methods of drug prescribing, approaches to data collection and problem solving with discussions of the drug therapy of common acute and chronic diseases. The emphasis will be on the practical application of important concepts used in clinical practice for clients across the lifespan. | ||||
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| HCS/520 | Health Care Infrastructure | MN | ||
| This course analyzes the central concepts related to health care regulation, economics, and politics. Students interpret the impact of legal and regulatory requirements on the process of decision making in health care. The role of economics in driving health care reform and use of alternative health care systems is critically evaluated. | ||||
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| HCS/523 | Health Promotion/Prevention | FNP | ||
| Students analyze disease prevention, disease screening, risk evaluation, and health promotion theories and interventions for individuals, families, and community groups. The incidence and epidemiology of diseases as they impact individuals and groups are explored. Incorporation of health promotion interventions and programs into clinical practice is examined through clinical observation and application and the results are critically analyzed. | ||||
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| HCS/581.3 | Change/Negotiation/Conflict Resolution in Health Care | MN | ||
| This course explores organization structure, role theory, group dynamics and change theory as they apply to the process of implementing change, negotiation and managing conflict. Students have the opportunity to utilize effective strategies to manage conflict and to negotiate in a variety of environments. | ||||
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| HCS/582 | Health Care Finance | MN | ||
| This course presents students with the financial aspects of management across health care settings. Students examine the financial issues in delivery models in such areas as managed care and explore techniques of cost benefit ratio, critical path and productivity analysis. Staffing and case mix, regulatory impacts, and financial interaction with resource allocation is included. | ||||
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| HCS/583 | Data Based Clinical Decision Making | MN | ||
| This course focuses on providing students with the comprehensive knowledge and skill base necessary for making data based decisions. Methods of critical evaluation of data needed to support project planning, implementation, and evaluation will be emphasized. Students will address concerns in the professional work setting by using guidelines for analysis and evaluation of research reports and strategies for outcome measure development. | ||||
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| NUR/401 | Theoretical Foundations of Professional Nursing | BSN | ||
| This course is designed to focus entering baccalaureate students on the behaviors, attitudes, and values necessary for theory-based nursing practice. The nursing process is operationalized in the role of case manager, and Lippett’s change theory is presented as a means of managing individual and system change. Discussion of nursing informatics is included. Orem’s Theory of Self-Care is introduced and used as the unifying framework for all course concepts. | ||||
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| NUR/417 | Pathophysiology & Health Assessment I | BSN | ||
| This course is the first of two courses that integrate pathophysiology and health assessment. Orem’s Theory of Self-Care is used as a framework for designing a nursing system with the nurse as caregiver, teacher, and manager of care. Students develop health maintenance and disease prevention strategies, knowledge, skills, and educational techniques for individuals with specific pathological conditions or predispositions to these conditions. | ||||
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| NUR/418 | Pathophysiology & Health Assessment II | BSN | ||
| This course is the second of two courses that integrate pathophysiology and health assessment. Orem’s Theory of Self-Care is used as a framework for the continuation of designing a nursing system with the nurse as caregiver, teacher, and manager of care. Students develop health maintenance and disease prevention strategies, knowledge, skills, and educational techniques for individuals with specific pathological conditions or predispositions to these conditions. Students are required to develop a multidisciplinary case management plan that encompasses the health assessment and pathophysiology of a chose chronic condition. | ||||
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| NUR/429 | Issues & Strategies in Nursing Research Utilization | BSN | ||
| This course covers the development of basic research knowledge and skills to prepare the professional nurse to be a consumer of research by utilizing the research process in the nursing, client and health care systems. The focus of this course is on the use of findings from scientific investigations in responding to nursing problems. Ethical issues in research and critique of nursing and health care research studies are also included. | ||||
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| NUR/452 | Health Law & Ethics | BSN | ||
| The legal and ethical aspects of the roles of care giver, teacher, and manager of care are examined. Emphasis is placed on professional and legal accountability and responsibility, professional liability, advocacy, collective action and the ethical responsibilities and decision making in the client and health care system. | ||||
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| NUR/464 | Concepts of Family Nursing Theory | BSN | ||
| This course provides the foundations for developing and utilizing theory-based practice for managing the continuum of care required for families. Based on Orem’s Theory of Self-Care and the nursing process, the student develops the skills necessary to provide family-centered, outcome-oriented nursing care across the lifespan. Students are assisted in the integration of the multi cultural diversity of families into the nursing plan of care. The course provides the framework for the development of the professional roles of caregiver, teacher, and manager of care in nursing, client, and health care systems. | ||||
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| NUR/465 | Clinical Integration: Nursing Management of Families | BSN | ||
| This course focuses on the utilization of theory-based practice to manage the continuum of care required by families. Based on Orem’s Theory of Self-Care and the nursing process, the student will complete nine workshops and 75 hours of clinical practicum that provide the framework for development of the professional roles of caregiver, teacher, and manager of care in the health care, family, and nursing systems. Clinical practicum provides experiences across the lifespan which take place in a variety of settings, and which address the health care needs of families. The clinical integration and application of theories and concepts introduced in the family theory course will be the focus of this course. | ||||
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| NUR/471 | Dimensions of Community Nursing Practice | BSN | ||
| This course provides the foundation for developing and using theory based practice in the health promotion of population aggregates and communities. Based on community health nursing standards and nursing conceptual frameworks, students learn skills to address populations at risk. Utilizing the epidemiological model, students identify levels of prevention and apply health promotion strategies to community health problems. Current social and economic issues are explored. Journaling and group activities facilitate the exploration of social responsibility as a professional value. This course provides the framework for the development of skills for community focused nursing practice. | ||||
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| NUR/472 | Clinical Integration: Partnerships in Community Practice | BSN | ||
| This course focuses on the utilization of theory-based practice to promote the care of population aggregates and communities. Students complete seven workshops and 60 hours of practicum which provide experiences with aggregates in a variety of settings to develop the professional roles of caregiver, teacher, and manager of care. Through the clinical practicum the student develops beginning skills in community education, coalition building, community assessment and the use of computerized data bases. Violence as a health care problem and health care financing are examined as examples of current issues affecting communities. Social responsibility as a professional value is facilitated. Clinical integration and application of theories introduced in the community course are the framework of this course. | ||||
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| NUR/485 | Nursing Leadership & Management in Healthcare | BSN | ||
| This course focuses on the utilization of theory and research to develop skills in nursing management and leadership. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of leadership skills that are effective in a turmoil of change. Components of this course are transformational leadership, process of change, case management, and aspects of teamwork including delegation and management concepts. Course content is applied in the completion of 30 hours of clinical experience. | ||||
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| NUR/515.3 | Advanced Nursing Theory | MN | ||
| This course focuses on the critical analysis on concepts and theories basic to the development and utilization of nursing knowledge. Students explore the implications of the variety of ways to organize nursing knowledge and examine the use of nursing knowledge in professional environments. | ||||
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| NUR/540 | Advanced Nursing Management: Individuals & Families | MN | ||
| This course analyzes the management of individual and family health in relationship to theoretical concepts and the current managed health care environment. Students integrate the cultural, socioeconomic, ethnic, and related health beliefs that influence the approach to family interactions by nurses and health professionals. This course builds on the baccalaureate nursing education of delivering nursing care to individuals and families. | ||||
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| NUR/543 | Advanced Nursing Management: Communities | MN | ||
| In this course students analyze the theory and role of nurses working with aggregates, including assessing communities through use of epidemiological methods, defining and prioritizing health problems, and developing proposals for resolution of diagnosed problems. Course content is designed to build on baccalaureate education to further promote critical thinking skills necessary to perform autonomously in community health environments. Students will use the course concepts in clinical application projects. | ||||
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| NUR/576 | Ethical Issues in Nursing | MN | ||
| This course focuses on ethical models and decision making in nursing. Students evaluate client and organization related situations and determine appropriate action within an ethical framework. Implications of decisions are discussed in relation to legal, economic, environmental, technological and religious issues. | ||||
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| NUR/584 | Dynamics of Nursing Administration | MN | ||
| This course provides student with opportunities to critically analyze leadership and management in nursing. Nursing delivery systems, the role and challenges of nursing management, and provider relationships and interactions are explored in depth. Through a clinical application project, student will develop strategies to facilitate professional practice and human resource functions in health care organizations. | ||||
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| NUR/586.3 | Curriculum Development & Program Design | MN | ||
| This course focuses on the theories and models for conducting needs assessments, developing curriculum and designing programs in nursing and health care. Students have an opportunity to develop a program utilizing instructional design methodology and appropriate teaching methods and learning resources. | ||||
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