This is a capstone course designed to demonstrate student learning and attainment of program outcomes. Students will complete a project developed with their advisor that successfully integrates learning from the core courses as well as within the specialty track. This course is pass/fail.
Co-Requisite: NUR 588

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to use, interpret, and evaluate the statistical analysis techniques that are frequently encountered in the clinical literature of nursing, medicine, psychology and epidemiology. Included in this course is an understanding of descriptive statistics, probability, linear regression and epidemiological concepts. Pre-Requisite: MAT or PSY 115

This course provides an examination of the health care policy processes and issues at organizational, governmental, and global levels as well as critical analysis of ethical principles, ethical theories and contemporary health care ethical issues relating to individuals and society. Emphasis is on developing an interdisciplinary framework to solving ethical dilemmas.

Students will apply concepts learned to the ethical use of data, information, and knowledge in clinical practice and research as well as explore the ways in which information and technology influence practice and decision-making in various aspects of nursing practice. Students will also analyze the critical elements in the life cycle of information, patient care technology systems, and the legal, ethical, cultural, economic, and social factors affecting healthcare information technology.
Prerequisite: Admission into the MSN Program.

This course addresses nursing theory and its evolution in the use of models/theories in advanced practice. Emphasis is on the analytic processes basic to determining the adequacy of selected models/theories as well as development of an understanding of leadership and change theory and their application to practice.

This course focuses on socialization of nurses into advanced practice through an investigation of nursing history and advanced practice roles. Role development and regulatory and economic policies that affect practice in today’s healthcare system are emphasized along with development of skills in leadership to plan, manage, and implement change.

This course focuses on the role of the nurse as educator within clinical, classroom, laboratory, simulation, and patient environments. The course provides the opportunity to implement evidence-based adult teaching practices, philosophical perspectives, and professional standards in areas of academia, staff development, and/or patient education.

This course provides an introduction to theories and strategies of measurement and evaluation in nursing education. Experiential exercises increase proficiency in the development, use, and critique of measurement and evaluation methods to classroom and clinical learning situations. Includes steps in problem analysis and needs assessment, logistics of program evaluation and quality improvement.