GPNG 523
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Historical and Contemporary Foundations for Advanced Nursing Practice
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3 Credits
| This course provides an introduction to the role of the nurse is advanced practice through an analysis of nursing history and innovations in the advanced nursing practice role in order to expand and challenge conventional thinking. The student will explore the theoretical literature from diverse disciplines on how innovations are conceived and implemented, particularly in nursing and healthcare practice. Using a case study model, professional role issues in advanced nursing practice are explored with respect to historical and contemporary foundations of advanced nursing practice, as well as, implementation and impact of health care entrepreneurial initiatives/innovations. The course will address statistical literacy and technical writing in the context of role development and nursing and health care innovation. Integral to this course will be an introduction to the online learning environment. |
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GPNG 524
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Evidence Based Nursing Practice and Policy Development
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3 Credits
| This course focuses on evidence-based practice and policy development by addressing the value of scientific evidence and nursing research in providing high quality health care that is also culturally-responsive and appropriate. Content focuses on the need for evidence-based practice, the research process, high performance inter-professional teams, systematic EBP using the Johns Hopkins Evidence Based Practice Model, ethical issues, and use of organizational leadership techniques to promote evidence-based practice. The goal of this course is to prepare nurses in advance practice who are proficient in using a systematic EBP model to identify and address clinical problems with inter-professional teams and collaborations. Additionally is will prepare students to lead EBP efforts, implementation projects and make policy recommendations. |
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GPNG 526
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Healthcare Ethics in Practice and Policy
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3 Credits
| This course provides a foundation in ethics for nurses in advanced practice. The first part of the course will cover the fundamental issues, prevailing views, and laws in clinical ethics, with a focus on issues related to nursing, including the nurse's professional role and the nurse-patient relationship; trust, confidentiality, and veracity; informed consent; autonomy and paternalism; the right to refuse treatment; decision-making capacity; surrogate decision-making and advance directives; and conscientious objection. If time permits, other topics may be included, including: abortion, physician-assisted suicide, reproductive technology, genetic testing, and the ethics of research on human subjects. The second part of the course will cover fundamental topics in organizational ethics, which includes ethical issues involved in healthcare administration and institutional policy, such as resource allocation, conflicts of interest, the economics of healthcare delivery, and the role of ethics committees and clinical ethicists. Throughout the course we will discuss controversial case-studies through which students will develop skill in presenting well-reasoned arguments for their positions. |
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GPNG 527
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Clinical Prevention and Population-Based Health Promotion
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3 Credits
| This course is designed to focus on the health promotion and disease prevention of the aggregate (individuals, families, groups that make up a community and/or a society). It provides the student a different and wider perspective related to the incorporation and the application of the theoretical knowledge into the aspects of clinical practices. The course will address: the foundation of the meaning of population within the context of health promotion and disease prevention, the goals of the national health plan, health indicators, health determinants at the individual and societal levels, health behavior and the challenge to change people's behavior. This will include applying concepts of health behavior theories, health disparity, human genetics, environmental health, and chronic disease control and prevention. Additionally, students will apply epidemiological principles to identify populations at high risk of preventable illnesses. The course will explicitly address the health promotion and clinical/disease prevention activities that are culturally responsive and appropriate. |
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GPNG 928
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Social Justice and Vulnerable Populations
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3 Credits
| Vulnerability is examined through the lens of social justice theory, the Catholic social justice tradition and determinants of health. Responses to vulnerability are framed by: characteristics and determinants of vulnerability, direct and indirect actions to limit or reduce vulnerability, and structural and policy level work to address the variables that create and perpetuate vulnerability within persons, across generations and in local and global communities. |
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GPNS 933
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The Legal Environment in Nursing and Healthcare
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3 Credits
| This course will use a case-based approach to examine the multitude of legal and ethical issues that confront the contemporary nurse leader and in their professional nursing role. The course will also address issues confronted by nursing administrators –directors, nurse managers and clinical leaders. The course will begin with an introduction to the legal process and how legal cases are retrieved and cited in the literature. The course will examine such concepts as ‘due process’ and how it is operationalized in nursing practice. The role of a health care-based attorney as a consultant in the clinical setting will also be addressed. Using a case-based method, various scenarios will be analyzed within a legal and ethical framework. |
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GPNS 955
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Organizational Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare
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3 Credits
| The theory portion of the course integrates principles of management and leadership concepts with contemporary health care trends and issues related to nursing administration, leadership and practice. The focus of this course is organizational theory, leadership models, and communication and change theory in team building, conflict management, and inter-professional collaboration. This course also emphasizes the responsibility of the nurse leader to ensure the quality, safety and effectiveness of patient care within a health care setting. The practicum portion of the course involves 75 hours of observational experiences in a health care setting. The experiences involve working with a nurse administrator and/or healthcare administrator with the intention of focusing on the concepts related to Organizational Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare. |
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GPNG 917
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Transcultural Care and Global Health Perspectives
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3 Credits
| This course explores the impact of globalization on health care and health care planning, and the need to design health care systems that are responsive to diverse cultural needs. The focus is on select global health problems assessed in a multidisciplinary manner to assure attention to the underserved and their complex cultural needs and requirements. Attention is directed at increasing the capacity of health care professionals to develop culturally sensitive health care systems. |
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GPNS 937
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Ethical Leadership in Complex Organizations
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3 Credits
| This course focuses on the knowledge and skills required to excel in the ethical leadership of organizations and groups in the transformation of educational and health care environments. Focus areas will include values and ethics, professional accountability, human resource utilization, legal issues, effective communication skills, effective management of teams and groups, and conflict management and resolution, and healthcare advocacy. |
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GPNS 954
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Analytical Methods for Evidence Based Practice and Practice Improvement
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3 Credits
| This course presents practice improvement methods and processes that support the achievement of nursing and health care goals to eliminate health disparities and to promote patient safety and excellence in practice. Analytical methods will be presented that includes evaluating outcomes of health care services, systems of care and communities. Epidemiological and Quality Improvement principles, research and methods are explored as vital components to practice improvement initiatives. Population health concepts and measures used to determine risk, association and community health outcomes will be discussed. Appropriate statistical analysis used to predict and analyze health care outcomes will be presented. Quality improvement strategies that can be used to create and sustain health care improvements at the practice, organizational and policy levels will be presented. |
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