As part of the fourth-year course offerings in the College of Medicine, this secondary acting internship is designed to provide students with an advanced level of direct patient care responsibility, greater than that required during a third-year clerkship or fourth-year elective. During this course, the student will assume direct responsibility for management of patient care, and with the appropriate oversight of supervising physicians, assume the responsibilities of a first-year intern.

This course introduces the baccalaureate student to the concepts of health and physical assessment, health promotion, and therapuetic communication skills as they are applied with diverse populations in a variety of clinical settings. In addition, students will develop critical thinking skills useful to the nurse in promoting health in individuals and families across the life span. Lecture, five hours; laboratory nine hours per week.

This course introduces the baccalaureate student to the concepts of health and physical assessment, growth and development, health promotion and therapeutic communication skills as they are applied with diverse populations in a variety of clinical settings. The course will provide didactic and clinical experiences that enable the students to provide beginning professional nursing care with individuals and families requiring interventions across the lifespan.

This is a general introductory course to drugs and drug therapy. Various drugs will be studied and categorized in the context of clinical pathological disorders or problems. The general approach will involve a study of the pathophysiology of specific disorders and the categories of drugs currently employed in the treatment of these problems. The students will learn mechanism of action, therapeutic effect, side effects, drug interactions, and toxicities of these drugs, and will be provided with examples of commonly used drugs in each of these categories.

Exploration of selected topics or issues in nursing. Directed by a faculty member with expertise in the topic under study. Lecture, 0-4 hours; laboratory, 0-12 hours per week. May be repeated with different topics to a maximum of nine credits.

This course provides the knowledge and skills essential for using research to support clinical and organizational decision making. The strengths and limitations of various research designs and methods are reviewed for their utility in answering clinical questions, evaluating care delivery and patient outcomes, and making clinical decisions.

This advanced health assessment course offers essential assessment and skill development opportunities for advanced practice nursing. It includes intensive work on the principles and techniques of performing a comprehensive health assessment in the context of developmental, physiological, psychological, and environmental parameters. Individual, family, and community assessment models are analyzed for use with diverse populations. Emphasis is to differentiate normal and abnormal findings for diverse individuals, families, and communities.

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 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 will provide graduate nursing students with knowledge and skills needed to improve health outcomes of populations in occupational environments. Emphasis will be placed on research and policy development using nursing and interdisciplinary lenses. Further, this course will prepare the student to be proficient in the knowledge, skills, and abilities to effectively work with complex organizational systems and occupational settings.