4 Credits

This course focuses on the critical components of contemporary nursing knowledge, including concepts, statements, metaparadigms, philosophies, conceptual models, and theories. Students evaluate the variety of ways to organize nursing knowledge and explore the implications of their application. Through the clinical application of the course content, students examine the use of theory, nursing research, and nursing knowledge in professional environments. The findings of research are examined for their adoption and diffusion of innovations in nursing.

4 Credits

This course emphasizes the history and development of advanced practice nursing roles and competencies, as well as the organizational and regulatory scope of practice requirements expected in these roles. Watson's theory of human caring provides the foundation for traditional and holistic care activities. Students examine the impact and evolution of this role transition, certification, and professional activities as these relate to advanced practice nursing. Also addressed are the changes in health care and their implications for advanced practice nursing. The impact of health care policy, managed care, as well as concepts related to financial responsibility within the health care delivery systems will be examined. This course provides the necessary strategies to address ethical issues for the health care professional. Research principles applicable to the advanced practice nurse will also be discussed and reinforced.

4 Credits

This course provides students with advanced anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology of systems in relation to an individual's health across the lifespan. Focus is given to the physiological and biological manifestations and adaptive and maladaptive changes that occur. The knowledge gained in this course lays a foundation for the management of primary care issues of the family and its members.

4 Credits

This course is designed to provide the nurse practitioner student with the information and skills to initiate and monitor drug therapy. This course will integrate advanced knowledge regarding the clinical application of pharmacology and pharmacokinetics, techniques and methods of drug prescribing, approaches to data collection and problem-solving with discussions about drug therapy for common acute and chronic diseases. Emphasis will be on the practical application of important concepts used in clinical practice for clients across the lifespan.

4 Credits

This course emphasizes advanced practice history taking, physical examination, and obtaining and assessing diagnostic data for patients across the lifespan. Students learn to justify actual and potential health problems through interpretation and integration of the history, health assessment, and laboratory data.

4 Credits

This course is a continuation of NRP/531: Advanced Health Assessment I and provides the theoretical foundation for common office procedures encountered in primary care. ECG, X-ray, spirometry interpretation, and diagnostic imaging, as well as minor surgery and orthopedic procedures are included. Selected skills are practiced under supervision during residency.

4 Credits

Building on diagnostic skills learned in Advanced Health Assessment, this course focuses on the etiology and epidemiology of selected neurological and psychiatric disorders and the assessment and diagnosis of common clinical variations in the presentation of adults and children with mental illness.

4 Credits

Presents advanced concepts of the neuropathophysiology of mental illness, and the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs used in the treatment of individual patients diagnosed with one or more mental disorders across the lifespan.

4 Credits

The course builds upon previous courses and focuses on psychotherapeutic interventions and theories that are utilized by the advanced practice psychiatric nurse in planning, implementing and evaluating the care of adults and children with mental disorders. The clinical component focuses the nurse practitioner student on primary assessment and diagnostic skills needed to determine the appropriate individual, family, and/or group therapy for the care of adults and children with neuropsychiatric/mental disorders.

4 Credits

The course builds upon previous courses with an emphasis on the differential diagnosis of and interventions for the care of adult and geriatric patients with psychiatric symptoms. The clinical component focuses the nurse practitioner student on the primary assessment and diagnostic skills needed to determine the appropriate therapeutic interventions for adults and geriatric patients with neuropsychiatric/mental disorders.

4 Credits

The course builds on previous courses and has an emphasis on the differential diagnosis of and interventions for the care of children and adolescents with psychiatric symptoms. The clinical component focuses the nurse practitioner student on primary diagnostic and assessment skills needed to determine appropriate therapies for children and adolescents with neuropsychiatric/mental disorders.

8 Credits

he course builds on previous courses and has an emphasis on the care of patients with psychiatric symptoms across the lifespan (i.e., children, adults, and geriatric). The clinical component focuses the nurse practitioner student on primary diagnostic and assessment skills needed to determine appropriate therapies for patients with neuropsychiatric/mental disorders.