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 didactic Adult Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner course focuses on the role of the AG-ACNP in the complex care of acute and critically ill adult and geriatric patients. Course content includes the diagnosis and management of episodic and chronic illness; diagnostic tests; technologic and therapeutic interventions. The patient population of the Adult-Gerontology ACNP includes young adults (including late adolescents and emancipated minors), adults and older adults in all contexts of complex acute and chronic illness.

This course provides content for advanced practice nursing care for adults and geriatrics with acute illnesses in a variety of settings in complex health care systems. The patient population includes young adults (including late adolescents and emancipated minors), adults and older adults (including young-old, old, and old-old adults) in all contexts of care. Emphasis is on developing clinical expertise in a specialty area to interpret and manage acutely ill patients and their clinical problems. Planning, directing, delivering, and evaluating care is based on theory and research.

This course allows the graduate pediatric nursing student the opportunity to examine the care of children and adolescents (birth through 21 years) with special health care needs and those with complex/critical, chronic health deviations on the pediatric client, their families, and the community.

This course focuses on the primary care nurse practitioner's assessment, diagnosis and management of episodic health problems of adult and geriatric individuals and populations. Emphasis will be on differentiating a variety of signs and symptoms and interpreting data to formulate differential diagnoses. The use of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to assist in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the plan of care will be emphasized. The impact of episodic health problems on individual, family and population health will be analyzed.

This course focuses on the study of conceptual frameworks, theories, and research related to common psychiatric disorders among adults and elderly patients. Concepts related to diagnostic criteria, assessment, treatment, evaluation, and recovery from psychiatric illness in adult and elderly patients will be emphasized. The course will also focus on biological and pharmacologic theories, developmental issues, psychotherapeutic modalities, and primary prevention of psychiatric illnesses in this population.

Preparing nurses to work as strategic executive leaders in complex organizations and systems in both community and inpatient/outpatient healthcare settings is the focus of this course. Leading in today's healthcare environment brings challenges that require new and adaptable skill sets. Students will learn strategies for working effectively within varied healthcare environments and for surviving and thriving as an executive leader both at the organizational and systems level.

Learning about the rewards and challenges of being in an executive nursing leadership role is the focus of this course. Students will precept with an Executive Nurse Leader in a complex organization/system environment (community, clinic setting, hospital setting etc). Students will observe/learn strategies for working effectively within complex organizations/systems and for surviving and thriving as an executive leader.

This seminar course provides a review of selected biological science topics. Emphasis is placed on the use of current literature for an in-depth study of those aspects of the subject particularly relevant to dental practice. Lecture: 32 hours.