COURSES
Courses not offered this academic year (fall/winter terms) are indicated by the words "NOT OFFERED THIS YEAR" below the course description. Nevertheless, students should refer to the Timetable as a final check.
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Nursing
5610
Pathophysiology for the Nurse Practitioner
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Credit Weight:
0.5
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Description:
Theoretical and practice related concepts of pathophysiology are examined as a basis for advanced nursing practice. The course content will also explore alterations in physiological function with an emphasis on age-related, acute, episodic, and chronic conditions found in primary health care practice.
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Cross-List(s):
Public Health 5610
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Offering:
1.5-0; 1.5-0
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Nursing
5615
Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnosis I
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Credit Weight:
0.5
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Prerequisite(s):
Pre- or co-requisite NURS 5635
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Description:
Students will differentiate concepts and frameworks essential to advanced health assessment, clinical reasoning, and diagnosis in advanced nursing practice. They will also apply clinical, theoretical, scientific knowledge in comprehensive and focused health assessment, including history taking, physical examination, diagnostic reasoning, and interpretation for the individual's diagnostic plan of care.
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Cross-List(s):
Public Health 5615
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Offering:
3-0-6; 0-0-0
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Nursing
5616
Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnosis II
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Credit Weight:
0.5
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Prerequisite(s):
Nursing 5615 and 5635 and pre- or co-requisite: NURS 5636
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Description:
Students will learn to integrate conceptual frameworks integral to advanced health assessment, clinical reasoning and diagnosis in advanced nursing practice. They will also demonstrate substantive initiative, responsibility, and accountability in complex decision making for individual clients, groups, and/or communities within the nurse practitioner scope of practice.
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Cross-List(s):
Public Health 5616
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Offering:
0-0-0; 3-0-6
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Nursing
5630
Nurse Practitioner Roles and Responsibilities
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Credit Weight:
0.5
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Description:
Students will compare and contrast advanced practice nursing and related frameworks to develop, integrate, sustain, and evaluate the role of the nurse practitioner within primary health care. Critically analyze and develop strategies to implement advanced practice nursing competencies (research, leadership, collaboration, and health and social policy).
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Cross-List(s):
Public Health 5630
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Offering:
1.5-0; 1.5-0
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Nursing
5635
Therapeutics I
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Credit Weight:
0.5
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Prerequisite(s):
Pre- or co-requisite: NURS 5615
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Description:
Students will learn to critically appraise and interpret concepts and frameworks integral to pharmacotherapy, advanced counseling, and complementary therapies for common conditions across the lifespan. They will also learn to develop, initiate, manage, and evaluate therapeutic plans for care that incorporate client values and acceptability, goals of therapy, analysis of different approaches, pharmacotherapeutic principles.
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Cross-List(s):
Public Health 5635
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Offering:
3-0-6; 0-0-0
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Nursing
5636
Therapeutics II
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Credit Weight:
0.5
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Prerequisite(s):
Nrsing 5615 and 5635 and pre- or co-requisite: NURS 5616
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Description:
Students will learn to integrate conceptual frameworks and evidence underlying the study of pharmacotherapy, advanced counseling, and complementary therapies for complex client situtations. They will also demonstrate substantive initiative, responsibility, and accountability in complex decision making.
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Cross-List(s):
Public Health 5636
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Offering:
0-0-0; 3-0-6
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Nursing
5840
Nurse Practitioner Integrative Practicum
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Credit Weight:
1.0
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Prerequisite(s):
Nursing 5610, 5615, 5616, 5630, 5636, 5636
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Description:
The Integrative Practicum synthesizes the competencies essential to advanced nursing practice to provide primary health care for clients across the life span. Students will demonstrate autonomy, decision-making, and critical analysis of organizational and system issues that influence scope of practice, professional accountability, and outcomes. The practicum is normally taken from May to August. Students may not being their practicum until all other courses of the Nurse Practitioner certificate program have been successfully completed.
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Cross-List(s):
Public Health 5840
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Offering:
Seminar: 3 hours per week; Clinical practice: 7 hours per day for 13 weeks (455 hours)
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