Courses

Provides advanced knowledge for care of individuals and families in complex or life threatening situations. Focuses on the leadership role of the professional nurse using evidence-based practice while providing safe, high-quality, holistic, patient-centered care for diverse patient populations in complex or life-threatening situations.

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This course provides opportunities for students to integrate advanced nursing care concepts within a family and in community context. Content includes but is not limited to: manager of care for advanced concepts in safety, fluid/ electrolyte balance, cellular regulation, gas exchange, psychosocial wellbeing, growth and development, an perfusion, and medical emergencies.

First of two internship courses that facilitate the application of nursing leadership or nursing informatics within field experiences to provide the student an opportunity to work collaboratively with healthcare systems. Students may select to intern with a nursing leader, a nursing information technology expert, or a combination of roles. Students will participate in relevant clinical practice to meet the demands of changing patient care services.

Contact Hours: 12 Provides opportunity to demonstrate the role of professional nursing using judgment in practice, substantiated by evidence to assess and provide high quality care for individuals and families with complex multi-system stressors. Emphasizes health promotion, prevention, education and evidenced-based intervention in complex and lifethreatening situations.

In this course, the learner will tailor advanced simulations to their specific population of interest. Topics will focus on how the DNP-prepared clinician can use advanced simulation techniques to improve knowledge transference to a community of learners and/or aggregates. This course may include practicum hours.

This course provides instruction for the application of advanced level nursing skills and competencies in a variety of health care settings utilizing the nursing process and clinical judgement model as a problemsolving tools.

The exploration of the nature of knowledge and theory through the study of selected nursing theories, as well as the study of theories in other disciplines. The focus of this course is to apply and utilize theory to promote the understanding of information for improving health. Theoretical foundations of advanced nursing practice are examined including the evolution of nursing knowledge by examining theoretical structures from other disciplines.

Course focus is on concepts of normal nutrition in relation to the chemistry human nutrition status; evaluation of current nutritional problems. Offered spring

This course explores the biochemical foundations of human nutrition, focusing on metabolism of macronutrients and micronutrients. Students will examine how dietary disease development. Emphasis is placed on understanding nutrient interactions at pathways. The course also introduces emerging fields such as nutrigenomics and and individual responses to dietary patterns. Through integrated lectures and case-based the biochemical mechanisms that support evidence-based nutrition practice.