NUR-5290
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NUR-5290 Health PolicyDuring this course, students examine a comprehensive model of policymaking. Course emphasis is on healthcare trends, forces, and issues that shape health policy. Students, focusing on the core elements of health policy analysis, examine how politics, ethics, economics, and social and cultural variables influence policy development and impact healthcare outcomes. Students also explore the leadership role of nursing in policymaking. Credits: 3 Delivery Methods: Online Please contact the School of Nursing for availability. | Health Policy | 3 |
NUR-5300
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NUR-5300 Evidence-Based Nursing PracticeThe emphasis for this course is on the elements of evidence-based practice. Focus is placed on the cyclical process of identifying clinical questions, searching and appraising the evidence for potential solutions/innovations, planning and implementing practice changes, evaluating the outcomes, and identifying additional gaps in nursing knowledge. Integration of the existing evidence with clinical judgment, patient preferences, interprofessional perspectives, and other resources forms the basis for the clinical decision-making process that is inherent in improving patient, population, and organizational outcomes. Processes for leading practice changes are explored. Credits: 3 Delivery Methods: Online Please contact the School of Nursing for availability. | Evidence-Based Nursing Practice | 3 |
NUR-5310
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NUR-5310 Nursing Informatics: Concepts and IssuesNursing informatics combines knowledge and skills from nursing science, computer science, information science, and cognitive science to design and implement automated systems that support the nursing process in the delivery of healthcare services. Within this course, major topics related to nursing informatics and related fields will be explored. Emphasis is placed on developing an understanding of how automation is used to manage information in healthcare and the nurse's role in the process. This graduate-level overview course provides required informatics knowledge and skills for all students as well as the foundation for all additional informatics courses. Credits: 3 Delivery Methods: Online Please contact the School of Nursing for availability. | Nursing Informatics: Concepts and Issues | 3 |
NUR-5820
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NUR-5820 Financial Management in Nursing PracticeThis course introduces nursing professionals to healthcare financing issues in diverse settings of nursing practice. Students will explore financial sources, analyze legislation and reimbursement mechanisms, evaluate business plans, and learn to manage budgets. Students will also consider various approaches for analyzing the financial benefit, effectiveness, and utility of clinical initiatives across diverse populations and clinical settings. Credits: 3 Delivery Methods: Online Please contact the School of Nursing for availability. | Financial Management in Nursing Practice | 3 |
NUR-6000
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NUR-6000 Nursing Leadership in a Global CommunityNursing Leadership in a Global Community explores the role of advanced nursing leadership through the lens of global health. The course addresses key concepts of global health, examines selected advanced concepts including partnership and sustainability, and integrates ethics and social justice as core values for advanced nursing leadership. Credits: 3 Delivery Methods: Online Please contact the School of Nursing for availability. | Nursing Leadership in a Global Community | 3 |
Electives may be selected from the nursing elective course offerings, direct-care core courses, and/or alternate specialty area courses. For example, students may take two courses in nursing to enhance their skill base and work toward a future certificate in another nursing specialty. For TESU course options, please contact an academic advisor.
NUR-6310
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NUR-6310 Nursing Informatics: Systems Life CycleThis course provides students with a sequential process that supports the successful implementation of an information system within a variety of healthcare settings. Various techniques and skills will be presented that assist healthcare organizations in advancing through the stages of a system's life cycle. Emphasis is placed on the role of the nursing informatics specialist within this process. Credits: 3 Delivery Methods: Online Please contact the School of Nursing for availability. | Nursing Informatics: Systems Life Cycle | 3 |
NUR-7010
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NUR-7010 Nursing Informatics: Databases and Knowledge ManagementThis course is designed to provide a comprehensive foundation in the relationship between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom by examining database design standards and issues. Students explore the relationship between knowledge discovery and databases as they relate to nursing and healthcare delivery. Concepts of data warehousing, data mining, knowledge management, and security/access will be explored. Credits: 3 Delivery Methods: Online Please contact the School of Nursing for availability. | Nursing Informatics: Databases and Knowledge Management | 3 |
NUR-7110
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NUR-7110 Nursing Informatics: Consumer Informatics and Communications TechnologiesIn this course students will explore consumer informatics and digital health. Emphasis will be on consumer engagement and empowerment through user-centered design of information, services, and support with health information technologies. Consumer informatics will continue to evolve with new developments and will capture current trends and emerging technologies. This course will also examine the Nursing Informatics Scope and Standards of Practice related to consumer informatics. Credits: 3 Delivery Methods: Online Please contact the School of Nursing for availability. | Nursing Informatics: Consumer Informatics and Communications Technologies | 3 |
NUR-7210
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NUR-7210 Nursing Informatics: Seminar and Practicum IThe Nursing Informatics Seminar and Practicums I and II are closely aligned. The two practicums provide a Capstone experience for applying knowledge and skills acquired during the nursing informatics program. Practicums I and II are scheduled in the same healthcare setting. Students select their learning environment based on course objectives and their professional goals, needs, and interests. In Nursing Informatics: Seminar and Practicum I, students, working with the online mentor and onground preceptor, develop a plan for practicum activities, and select, initiate, and implement informatics related projects that may continue into the second practicum. Students reflectively discuss their experiences, projects, and related learning in the online discussion seminar. This course requires completion of 100 practicum hours. Prerequisite: All other MSN degree and Nursing Informatics certificate requirements except NUR-7310: Nursing Informatics: Seminar and Practicum II. Submission of all documents and requirements outlined in the Practicum Packet including a criminal background check. *Students may register for one elective concurrent with this course. Credits: 3 Delivery Methods: Online Please contact the School of Nursing for availability. | Nursing Informatics: Seminar and Practicum I | 3 |
NUR-7310
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NUR-7310 Nursing Informatics: Seminar and Practicum IIThis course builds on the student's learning and achievements from Nursing Informatics: Seminar and Practicum I. Depending on the learning opportunities available and the student's evolving professional goals, the student, in consultation with the course mentor and onground preceptor, may continue and/or modify the selected practicum activities and project(s) developed in the first practicum course. Students reflectively discuss their experiences, projects, and related learning in the online discussion seminar. This course requires completion of 100 practicum hours. Demonstration of achievement of Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program outcomes and competencies is required. Prerequisite: All other MSN degree and Nursing Informatics certificate requirements. Submission of all documents and requirements outlined in the Practicum Packet including a criminal background check. *Students may register for one elective concurrent with this course. Credits: 3 Delivery Methods: Online Please contact the School of Nursing for availability. | Nursing Informatics: Seminar and Practicum II | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 36