This course provides students with the tools to evaluate and improve health care programs and clinical outcomes. Students develop feasible and reliable program evaluation designs. Students analyze the nature of, and explanations for variations in clinical practice patterns and clinical outcomes. Emphasis is on the use of program evaluation for improvements in clinical outcomes, efficiency, resource allocation, and cost reduction. Requires 4 hours per week residency time for each credit hour enrolled. Graded pass/fail.

This course focuses on information systems technology as applied to nursing and health care. Knowledge and skills necessary for utilizing information systems and technology for the advancement of practice and health services research are emphasized. The use of computer systems and technology will be explored.

This course provides the foundation to improve health outcomes for patient populations. National strategies, theories and methods to improve health outcomes will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on the systematic analysis of systems of care to promote safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient-centered care. Students will learn how to optimize the translation of evidence into clinical practice to enhance quality and safety. Students will gain knowledge to lead quality improvement and patient safety initiatives in health care systems.

This synthesis course focuses on evolving nursing interventions in advanced clinical and administrative practice. Based on student's specialty/role, these interventions encompass direct care of individuals, management of individuals or populations, healthcare administration, and health policy issues. Emphasis is on ways for expert nurse clinicians and administrators to solve problems and improve care in a dynamic healthcare system. This course requires eight hours per week clinical practice time.

This course is designed to present an orientation to disease as disordered physiology. It is intended to enable the nurse practitioner to understand how and why the symptoms and signs of various conditions appear. In approaching disease as disordered physiology, this course analyzes the mechanism(s) of production of the symptoms and signs of different disease syndromes. In doing so, it recognizes the practitioner's need to understand the mechanism(s) underlying the disease and its clinical manifestations so that rational therapies can be devised.

This course is designed to prepare advanced practice nurses to prescribe drugs within their scope of practice. Basic pharmacologic principles and the pharmacologic actions of the major drug classes will be discussed in relation to physiologic systems with emphasis on the application of these agents in practice.

This course is designed to prepare advanced practice nurses to prescribe drugs within their scope of practice. Basic pharmacologic principles and the pharmacologic actions of the major drug classes will be discussed in relation to physiologic systems with emphasis on the application of these agents in practice.

This course is designed to prepare advanced practice nurses to prescribe drugs within their scope of practice. Basic pharmacologic principles and the pharmacologic actions of the major drug classes will be discussed in relation to physiologic systems with emphasis on the application of these agents in practice.

This course is designed to prepare advanced practice nurses to prescribe drugs within their scope of practice. Basic pharmacologic principles and the pharmacologic actions of the major drug classes will be discussed in relation to physiologic systems with emphasis on the application of these agents in practice.

This course is designed to prepare advanced practice nurses to prescribe drugs within their scope of practice. Basic pharmacologic principles and the pharmacologic actions of the major drug classes will be discussed in relation to physiologic systems with emphasis on the application of these agents in practice.