Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Nursing

  
  
  • NRSE 5303 - Psychopharmacology

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Admission to the master’s nursing program or permission of instructor.

    This course is designed to familiarize health profession students with the basic principles of psychopharmacology and to explore medications used to treat psychiatric disorders. The physiological basis of mental illness will be reviewed and the pharmacologic, pharmodynamic principles of medications used in mental health care examined.

    Notes: Enrollment is restricted to the College of Nursing students.


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  • NRSE 5307 - Pediatric Primary Care III: Chronic Illness, Disability, and Complex Conditions

    (2 credits)
    The role of the advanced practice pediatric nurse in care of the child with chronic illness, disability, and complex conditions is explored. Pathophysiology, epidemiology, risk factors, screening and diagnostics, management and patient education around chronic illness, disability, and complex conditions is examined. The importance of continuity of care is emphasized.


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  • NRSE 5550 - Human Resource Management in Health Organizations

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

    This course focuses on the skills and concepts required in managing people in health service organizations, as well as on the human resource implications of changes in the external environment. Emphasis will be placed on the technical aspects of human resource management as well as the managerial skills required to manage people.

    When Offered: Fall.
    Notes: Enrollment is restricted to the College of Nursing students.


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  • NRSE 5590 - Strategic Planning for Health Care Organizations

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Permission of the major advisor.

    This course applies the concepts of strategic planning within the context of the health care industry. Issues associated with competing in a changing health care environment are explored with a focus on the development of solutions to problems associated with this change. The strategic management of health care delivery will be addressed from a variety of perspectives, ranging from those of the insurance industry, to public health facilities, to large health care networks, to small practices of health care providers.

    When Offered: Spring.
    Notes: Enrollment is restricted to the College of Nursing students.


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  • NRSE 6000 - Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Science

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Admission to the doctoral program.

    This course will actively engage students in the analysis and evaluation of contemporary nursing knowledge, conceptual systems, and theories. Philosophical and historical dimensions of the development of nursing knowledge, the relationship between knowledge development and development of the discipline, strategies for theory development, and theoretical adequacy for nursing practice will be explored.

    When Offered: Summer.


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  • NRSE 6030 - Quantitative Methods in Nursing Research

    (3 credits)
    Students in this course will complete in-depth comparisons of published quantitative nursing research, including examining philosophical perspectives, study design, instrumentation, sampling, and data analysis. Pragmatic considerations in implementing clinical nursing research will be analyzed culminating in development of a research proposal which will address a nursing research question using quantitative methodology.

    When Offered: Spring.


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  • NRSE 6040 - Qualitative Methods in Nursing Research

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: NRSE 6100 .

    Students in this course will complete in-depth comparisons of published qualitative nursing research, including examining philosophical perspectives, study design, instrumentation, sampling and data analysis. Pragmatic considerations in implementing clinical nursing research will be analyzed culminating in development of a research proposal which will address a nursing research question using a qualitative methodology.

    When Offered: Fall.


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  • NRSE 6120 - Statistical Methods for Nursing Research I

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor.

    Introduction to data collection, entry, management, and cleaning. Exploration of levels and types of quantitative variables. Introduction to parametric and non-parametric statistical tests for comparison of two independent conditions, two related conditions, several independent groups, several related groups, and determining relationships between two or more variables.


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