Courses

This course provides a broad survey of theory in archaeology as it is practiced throughout the world. It includes both historical perspectives and contemporary usage.

Exploration of essential professional nursing concepts.

Explores psychiatric problems common to four (4) special populations: children/adolescents, developmentally disabled individuals, aging persons, and forensic clients. The student learns to recognize and intervene with problems common to these four groups.

The nature of hospitality theory and its development.

In this course, the student will examine multiple educational theories. The student critiques the components of the theories and explores the value and contributions of the theories to nursing, advanced nursing, and evidence-based practice. The student will show how to apply the theories in education with clients and their families. This course includes a 20-contact-hour clinical integration experience.

The course serves as the framework for philosophical, ethical, and theoretical context of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) practice. This course identifies theoretical and ethical principles that serve as the foundation for advanced nursing practice and its relationship to disciplines outside of nursing. Providing opportunities to synthesize knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to inform education, practice, and research.

Integrative Nursing. This course explores historical processes and role development in advanced nursing practice. Theories and frameworks that guide and inform advanced nursing practice and scholarly inquiry are examined. Integration of theories from nursing, integrative care, and related disciplines provide a foundation for the graduate student to transition into the advance practice role and form a basis for evidence-based practice.

In this course, candidates learn the theoretical foundations for curriculum conceptualization, will be on value and empirical bases of curriculum decision-making strategies

This course provides an examination of theoretical models of nursing and leadership along with selected theoretical frameworks for understanding role development, organizational behavior, decision-making and conflict resolution in the healthcare environment. This course includes a 20-contact-hour clinical integration experience.

This course focuses on the Nurse Administrator's relationships and roles in a variety of health care systems. Theories of management and organization are analyzed from the perspective of structure, communication, dynamics, trends, and key management, responsibilities, and functions in health care delivery systems.