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B.S. in Actuarial Science

Otterbein University Course Catalogs

2011-2012 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Apr 19, 2024  
2011-2012 Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Courses


 
  
  • MBA 6900 - Independent Study

    Hours: 1-3
    Special topics that offer in-depth study of some aspects of business. Students may design their own independent study experience within departmental guidelines.

     

  
  • MBA 6905 - Special Topics

    Hours: 3
    Special topics that offer in-depth study of some aspect of business. May be repeated when taken as a different topic.

    Notes:
    Offered in 2011/12 only. MBA 6905 courses are courses offered on experimental basis for a limited time only. Once the course is deemed appropriate for permanent adoption to the MBA curriculum, then a formal proposal for adoption is made.
  
  • MBA 6905 - Special Topics: Accounting Tax Procedures

    Hours: 3
    This course involves the organization, structure and processes involved in practice before the IRS. Students will learn the administrative structure of the IRS, ethical duties of the practitioner, preparer penalties, and the statute of limitations. What is the Service’s procedure in determining, reviewing, litigating and collecting tax deficiencies, and the role of all of the key groups within the IRS? We will study the IRS criminal investigations division and the use of the IRS summons. Understand the latest IRS structural changes and review the official letters, forms and notices used by IRS. Students will get a clear sense of how the IRS works at a practical level. Discover primary sources including federal tax law, constitutional and legislative sources; administrative regulations and rulings and judicial interpretations and secondary sources as research tools including citators and other finding devices, annotated tax services, topical tax services, tax journals and newsletters. Use these research tools to communicate research results for tax planning and tax practice to tax clients.

    Notes:
    Offered in 2011/12 only. MBA 6905 courses are courses offered on experimental basis for a limited time only. Once the course is deemed appropriate for permanent adoption to the MBA curriculum, then a formal proposal for adoption is made.
  
  • MBA 6905 - Special Topics: Debating Modern Capitalism

    Hours: 3
    This course will examine different theories of modern capitalism and how it functions in the United States and global economy. The goal of the course is to help managers in their work by understanding different theories of how capitalism emerged as well as arguments about its strengths and limits. The goal of the course is not to provide an endorsement or critique capitalism, but to assist managers in understanding the ways that capitalism is not understood and constructed. In pursuing these aims, we will explore the relation between power and capitalist development; the role of firms, institutions and social structures in economic development; the relation between capitalists, managers and workers; and the impact of economic organization on the family and social structure.

    Notes:
    Offered in 2011/12 only. MBA 6905 courses are courses offered on experimental basis for a limited time only. Once the course is deemed appropriate for permanent adoption to the MBA curriculum, then a formal proposal for adoption is made.
  
  • MBA 6905 - Special Topics: Leadership in the Non-Profit Environment

    Hours: 3
    This course is designed to afford students the opportunity to explore the not-for-profit environment by utilizing and learning a process that leads to innovative solutions to solve difficult problems. The exploration will be supplemented with teachings on specific topical areas such as governance, laws, regulations and cultures of the not-for-profit environment. Students will experience and learn social technologies that engage the collective intelligence of groups and organizations. Students will explore the concept of leader as ¿host¿ of the purpose and mission of an organization and as host of the collective intelligence of the people who are the organization. Observation, reflection, discussion, writing, reading, experimentation and group work will constitute the principal learning activities. There will be a collective class project as the culminating exercise of the class.

    Notes:
    Offered in 2011/12 only. MBA 6905 courses are courses offered on experimental basis for a limited time only. Once the course is deemed appropriate for permanent adoption to the MBA curriculum, then a formal proposal for adoption is made.
  
  • MBA 6905 - Special Topics: Principles of Taxation for Business Decision Making

    Hours: 3
    This course investigates the basic maxims of good tax planning and addresses issues commonly faced by business managers and owners. Topics covered include standards for good tax policy, choice of entity, taxation of business income, compensation and retirement planning, fringe benefits, state and local taxes, and small business taxation. Learning will take place by using lectures, projects, interviews, guest speakers, case studies, and problem solving exercises.

    Notes:
    Offered in 2011/12 only. MBA 6905 courses are courses offered on experimental basis for a limited time only. Once the course is deemed appropriate for permanent adoption to the MBA curriculum, then a formal proposal for adoption is made.
  
  • MBA 6920 - International Business Seminar

    Hours: 3
    This course offers students an intense week long immersion in an international location and experience in conducting international business research. The country/region of study drives the academic focus. The course is comprised of several venues: Pre-study research and briefing lectures, travel outside the USA, lectures by local academics and topic experts; corporate and governmental site visits; and historical and cultural study tours. The course culminates with individual or group independent research papers on topics in international business focused on the region of study, completed after returning from the international seminar.

  
  • MBA 6950 - Business Strategy

    Hours: 3
    This elective course is designed to help students understand the business enterprise in its entirety. It integrates the concepts from marketing, operations and finance. It adds new perspectives about competitive and cooperative behaviors of companies. It is a big-picture course. It explores concepts. We will study strategy formulation, implementation and assessment (metrics). We will become familiar with the language and new concepts of strategic thinking such as operational readiness, alignment and strategic renewal. We will be using case studies as well as formal texts. The teaching approach is that there are choices and consequences (some intended and some unintended). The class will critically examine both sides of the equation and make the best decision in the best short and long term overall interests of the firm. Prerequisites: MBA 6000, 6150 or 6300, 6400 and 6450.

  
  • MBA 6980 - 21st Century Leadership

    Hours: 3
    This multidisciplinary course approaches leadership from a historical and contemporary perspective and analyzes current ideas including leadership styles, types, traits, and personalities. It explores leadership issues through the behavioral and managerial literature. It identifies leadership issues essential for a manager’s lifetime. The course will use case studies, simulation and experiential exercises, and guest lectures to explore leadership within organizations.

  
  • MBA 6990 - Consulting Project: Strategy Formulation and Implementation

    Hours: 3
    Students are expected to utilize their knowledge and skills obtained in the graduate business program to date in an actual consulting project with either a profit or non-profit organization. The project is developed in a cross-functional team setting under the direction of the professor and the project team coordinator. The course requires students to meet outside of classroom time for planning, preparation, and meeting with client organization representatives. Classroom time during the quarter’s first half is devoted to strategy formulation issues and discussion, while the second half is conducted independently under the direction of the professor. The course results in a professional consulting project document and presentation.

     

    Notes:
    This course is a capstone course that must be taken during one of the last two terms of the program and upon completion of core courses or by permission of the instructor.

  
  • NURS 5010 - Anatomy and Physiology for Nurse Anesthesia

    Hours: 3
    This course provides an in depth study of gross anatomy as well as cell structure and function, fluids and electrolytes (including blood), skeletal muscle, and all aspects of the nervous system, vascular tree, smooth muscle, the cardiac system, the respiratory system, the hepatic system, the immune system, and endocrine system. Prerequisites: Admission to the nurse anesthesia program.

  
  • NURS 5210 - Epidemiology/Healthy Populations

    Hours: 3
    The course examines the role of epidemiology as related to health of individuals, families, clinical populations and communities. It introduces concepts of health measurement as applied to health promotion and disease prevention. Students focus on the practical application of concepts to improve healthcare outcomes for individuals, families, and communities. Prerequisites: Undergraduate statistics and research course.

  
  • NURS 5220 - Evidenced-Based Practice/Informatics I

    Hours: 3
    At the unit or micro-level, students use research methods to identify pertinent questions and articulate the evidence base for practice decisions. There is an opportunity to investigate evolving technologies that deliver, enhance, and document care with an emphasis on cost-effectiveness, safety and improved outcomes. Students use and analyze data sets to prepare them to improve patient care outcomes.

  
  • NURS 5230 - Leadership and Advocacy in Policy and Healthcare Organization

    Hours: 3
    In this course, students incorporate leadership skills, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities within diverse healthcare systems and policy organizations to foster accessible, safe, high quality, affordable, and efficient health services for individuals, families, and communities at local, regional, and state levels. They analyze and apply theoretical frameworks and evidence based practice to political activity concerning the legal and ethical provisions of health care. Role development skills of communication, collaboration, negotiation, delegation, and coordination are enhanced to create successful strategies to provide high quality care delivery at the micro- and macro-systems levels.

  
  • NURS 5310 - Advanced Pharmacology

    Hours: 3
    This course builds on basic fundamental concepts of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. It focuses on essentials of drug action, clinical use, side effects, adverse reactions and rational drug selection for specific drug classes treating select disease processes. Client education, medication administration, interactions with herbal or nutritional remedies and lifestyle modifications across the lifespan or for special populations are included.

  
  • NURS 5320 - Advanced Health Assessment

    Hours: 3
    This course builds on basic physical assessment concepts to include episodic, focused and comprehensive health assessments for individuals across the lifespan. It focuses on therapeutic communication using the Holistic Caring Tapestry with individuals and families so that students assemble a health assessment data base, including family, cultural, psychosocial and physical findings. Students critically analyze data to determine differential diagnoses and establish an accurate assessment of health status.

    Notes:
    Includes lab hours.
  
  • NURS 5330 - Advanced Pathophysiology

    Hours: 3
    This course builds on knowledge of basic pathophysiology to examine current understanding of cell and tissue mechanisms that cause disease, and how these produce the symptoms and signs that we recognize clinically. The processes of cell adaptation and injury, apoptosis, necrosis, aging, thromboembolism, ischemia, infarction, fluid and chemistry imbalances, neuroendocrine abnormalities, inflammation, infection, immune dysfunction, genetic abnormalities and malignancy will be studied, illustrated by disease examples and case studies. Additionally the world burden of disease will be considered, including infection, infestation, malnutrition, and obesity.

  
  • NURS 5340 - Prescribing for the APN

    Hours: 1
    This course addresses the professional role of the advanced practice nurse with prescriptive authority. It focuses on quality assurance and safety, as well as statutory, ethical and legal issues.

  
  • NURS 6080 - Independent Study

    Hours: 1-3
    This course is designed for the graduate student who wishes to investigate a special nursing issue in depth under the guidance of one specific faculty member. Issue specific content, objectives and evaluation criteria are mutually determined by the faculty member and the student.

  
  • NURS 6090 - Special Topics in Nursing

    Hours: 3-5
    Courses are offered on an experimental basis for a limited time.

  
  • NURS 6110 - Clinical Nurse Leader Immersion I

    Hours: 2
    This course examines the Clinical Nurse leader (CNL) role at the point of care with individuals, clinical populations or communities. It includes an intensive clinical experience in a microsystem setting that is chosen by the student, in collaboration with community resources and Otterbein nursing faculty. Selected theories, concepts, and research related to leadership and the ethical/professional aspects of the CNL role are integrated into the clinical experience. Students begin their clinical project by identifying a microsystem need, and designing an innovation to meet that need in collaboration with course faculty and microsystem health care providers. Prerequisites: NURS 5210 and 5220 with minimum grades of B-; or concurrent NURS 5230, 5320 and 5330.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6120 - Clinical Nurse Leader Immersion II

    Hours: 4
    This course synthesizes the components of: educator; clinician; steward of the environment and human/material resources; leader; team manager; outcomes manager; information manager; client advocate; and systems analyst/risk anticipator into the CNL role. Students apply the Holistic Caring Tapestry to deliver quality health care to a specific microsystem population and to provide support to the nursing staff of that system. They reflect critically on their implementation of the CNL role and related clinical issues. The course requires the student to implement, evaluate and disseminate their clinical project results and recommendations. Prerequisites: NURS 6110 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6310 - Health Care Management I

    Hours: 5
    This course examines the administrative processes of nursing service management in selected organizational settings. It includes selected theories, concepts, and research related to designing, implementing and evaluating a nursing administration project; strategic planning; decision-making; organizational design; innovative change; team building; job design; and administrative legal, ethical, social, political and economic issues. Students apply the Holistic Caring Tapestry within the role of the health care manager. Prerequisites: NURS 5220, 5230 with minimum grades of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6320 - Health Care Management II

    Hours: 5
    This course involves observation, participation and practice in nursing administration within a health care organization or other appropriate health related setting. The focus is on the role and functions of the nurse administrator, theory and research related to the nurse administrator role, and issues related to nursing administration. Prerequisites: NURS 6310 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6400 - Educational Program Development and Evaluation

    Hours: 3
    This course examines the advanced nursing faculty role in schools of nursing. It focuses on using the principles of assessing, planning, developing, implementing and evaluating in higher education nursing curriculums. Students also analyze influences related to organizational, political, legal, and ethical issues. It includes selected theories/concepts, research, accreditation, and teaching methods for classroom, distance education, on-line courses and clinical teaching.

  
  • NURS 6430 - Advanced Practice Nurse Educator

    Hours: 3
    Participation in this course facilitates the synthesis of nursing and educational theories, concepts, and research in performing the advanced role of a nurse educator within selected educational settings. Students discuss theory and application of teaching/learning principles in a weekly seminar. Students are guided by master or doctorally prepared nurse educator preceptors in a higher educational setting. Prerequisites: NURS 6400 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6510 - Promoting Health in Primary Care

    Hours: 5
    This course focuses on health promotion, illness prevention and health maintenance care throughout the lifespan. It emphasizes assessment and management of the individual and family in the health care setting. Research, evidence based practice guidelines and theories related to nursing or behavioral sciences are utilized in decision making and clinical management. Students apply the Holistic Caring Tapestry within the family nurse practitioner role. Prerequisites: NURS 5210, 5310, 5320, 5330 with minimum grades of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6520 - Procedures/Skills

    Hours: 1
    This course focuses on common procedures and skills utilized by the APN based on research and evidence based practice guidelines. It emphasizes the focused assessment and clinical management of individuals requiring identified skills and procedures in the health care setting. Prerequisites: NURS 5210, 5310, 5320, 5330 with minimum grades of B-. Concurrent or prerequisite: NURS 6510.

    Notes:
    Includes lab hours.
  
  • NURS 6530 - Acute/Common Illnesses

    Hours: 5
    This course focuses on the diagnosis and management of acute and common health problems experienced by individuals and family members across the lifespan. Students synthesize and apply theories and principles from nursing and behavioral sciences. Students utilize evidence based practice guidelines in decision making and clinical management. Prerequisites: NURS 6510, 6520 with minimum grades of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6540 - Complex/Chronic Illnesses

    Hours: 5
    This course focuses on the diagnosis and management of chronic and complex, multidimensional health problems experienced by individuals and family members across the lifespan, including health care problems that require collaboration and referral. Students discriminate between independent and collaborative functions. Prerequisites: NURS 5320, 6510, 6520, 6530 with minimum grades of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6550 - Leadership in Nurse Practitioner Role

    Hours: 2
    This course focuses on concepts, values and principles which provide the basis for the family nurse practitioner role. Competencies of advanced nursing practice, principles of primary health care, community health promotion and evidence-based practice, are integrated into a clinical practice model. Students analyze and personalize the advanced practice nursing role, leading to a successful transition to practice. Prerequisites: NURS 6530 with a minimum grade of B-.

  
  • NURS 6710 - Fundamentals of Nurse Anesthesia Practice

    Hours: 3
    This course introduces students to basic concepts necessary to plan and execute safe individualized anesthetics. Topics include preoperative patient evaluation, interpretation of laboratory and diagnostic tests, positioning the patient for anesthesia and surgery, and basic principles of induction, maintenance and emergence from general anesthesia. Prerequisites: Admission to the nurse anesthesia program.

    Notes:
    Includes laboratory experience and clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6711 - Professional Aspects of Nurse Anesthesia I

    Hours: 1
    This course introduces students to the profession by examining the history of anesthesia and development of the profession, roles of the nurse anesthetist, the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, and standards of care. Students evaluate the Holistic Caring Tapestry within the Nurse Anesthesia role. Prerequisites: Admission to the nurse anesthesia program.

    Notes:

  
  • NURS 6712 - Chemistry and Physics for Nurse Anesthesia

    Hours: 3
    This course focuses on key concepts in organic chemistry, biochemistry and physics as they relate to anesthesia. Relevant topics such as the gas laws, biochemistry of fluids and electrolytes, reviews of organic chemistry and physics principles related to fluids and flow in humans and equipment are presented. Prerequisites: Admission to the nurse anesthesia program.

  
  • NURS 6720 - Technology and Techniques in Anesthesia

    Hours: 3
    This course focuses on the technologies nurse anesthetists use daily in practice. It is a lab intensive course that includes maintenance and trouble-shooting of the anesthesia work station and the practice of psychomotor skills involved in advanced invasive monitoring. Prerequisites: NURS 6710 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6721 - Pharmacology for Nurse Anesthesia I

    Hours: 3
    This course is designed to provide the student with a thorough understanding of the basic science of pharmacology. The primary focus will be on those topics which are an integral part of modern anesthesia practice. These include pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacogenetics, pharmacy and toxicology and others. Prerequisites: NURS 6712 with a minimum grade of B-.

  
  • NURS 6730 - Advanced Principles of Anesthesia I

    Hours: 4
    This course delineates techniques of anesthesia management for procedures involving the cardiovascular, pulmonary and central nervous systems. It includes concepts of advanced airway management, and principles of anesthetic management for anesthesia in remote locations.  Prerequisites: NURS 6710, 6720 with minimum grades of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes lab experiences.
  
  • NURS 6731 - Pharmacology for Nurse Anesthesia II

    Hours: 3
    This course is a continuation of Pharmacology for Nurse Anesthesia I. This course is designed to provide the student with a thorough understanding of the basic science of pharmacology. The primary focus will be on those topics which are an integral part of modern anesthesia practice. These include pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacy and toxicology. Prerequisites: NURS 6721 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes laboratory experiences.
  
  • NURS 6735 - Clinical Practicum I

    Hours: 2
    This course is an introduction to administration of anesthesia for selected patients. It emphasizes application of basic principles of general anesthesia; patient assessment; preparation of anesthesia equipment and drugs; development of patient-specific anesthesia care plans, and basic airway management in supervised settings.   Prerequisites: NURS 6710, 6720 with minimum grades of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6740 - Advanced Principles of Anesthesia II

    Hours: 4
    This course presents fundamental concepts essential to clinical anesthesia practice in the obstetric and pediatric populations. It includes theoretical and practical considerations involved in the administration and management of regional anesthesia for a variety of surgical procedures. Prerequisites: NURS 6730 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes lab experiences.
  
  • NURS 6745 - Clinical Practicum II

    Hours: 3
    This course, an intermediate clinical practicum, emphasizes achievement of greater responsibility in planning, managing, and implementing patient specific anesthesia care plans for more difficult procedures. Prerequisites: NURS 6735 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6750 - Advanced Principles of Anesthesia III

    Hours: 4
    This course addresses management of anesthesia for individuals with endocrine, hepatic, renal, and collagen disorders. It includes concepts and techniques of acute and chronic pain management. Students examine issues related to human error and patient safety with an emphasis on crisis management. Prerequisites: NURS 6740 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes lab experiences.
  
  • NURS 6751 - Professional Aspects of Nurse Anesthesia II

    Hours: 1
    This course provides the student an opportunity to focus on current issues confronting the profession including governmental and non-governmental regulation of nurse anesthesia practice, third-party billing, professional involvement, and advocacy. Includes principles of conflict resolution. Prerequisites: NURS 6711 with a minimum grade of B-.

  
  • NURS 6755 - Clinical Practicum III

    Hours: 3
    This course, an intermediate clinical practicum, focuses on specialty rotations in obstetrics, pediatrics, and neuro anesthesia. Students begin taking call and assuming greater responsibility for anesthetic management for patients with greater acuity. Prerequisites: NURS 6745 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6760 - Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease

    Hours: 3
    This course focuses on patients with commonly occurring diseases and their implications for anesthesia practice. Prerequisites: NURS 5330, 6750 with minimum grades of B-.

  
  • NURS 6765 - Clinical Practicum IV

    Hours: 3
    This course is an advanced clinical practicum that includes specialty rotations in cardiac, obstetric and pediatric anesthesia. Students demonstrate progress towards achievement of the terminal objectives for entry-level competency in anesthesia practice. Prerequisites: NURS 6755 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6770 - Professional Aspects of Nurse Anesthesia III

    Hours: 1
    This course provides the student an opportunity to focus on various issues confronting new graduates including but not restricted to assessing and selecting practice settings and employment options, medical ethics, and substance abuse. Prerequisites: NURS 6751 with a minimum grade of B-.

  
  • NURS 6775 - Clinical Practicum V

    Hours: 3
    This course is an advanced clinical practicum that includes specialty rotations in cardiac, obstetric and pediatric anesthesia. It focuses on internalization of theoretical concepts in the application and management of all types of patients and procedures and achievement of the terminal objectives for entry-level competency in anesthesia practice. Prerequisites: NURS 6765 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 6799 - Capstone

    Hours: 2
    This capstone course is the culminating course for the nurse anesthesia curriculum. Students will complete their capstone project and disseminate the results through oral and poster presentations, manuscript submission to a peer-reviewed journal, or another appropriate medium. It includes a comprehensive examination. Prerequisites: NURS 6730, 6740, 6750, 6760, 6765 with minimum grades of B-.

  
  • NURS 7030 - Politics and Policy of Healthcare

    Hours: 3
    This course examines state, national and international policies influencing the provision of healthcare to individuals, families, communities and healthcare organizations. It analyzes the legal and ethical implications of political activity on the provisions of healthcare. Students investigate the role of the national professional nursing and health organizations in the implementation of healthcare changes and participate in the political activism process.

  
  • NURS 7035 - Epidemiology/Biostatistics

    Hours: 3
    This course examines the role of epidemiology as related to health of individuals, families, clinical populations and communities. It includes selected theories and concepts related to relative risk, epidemiology and biostatistics. Students integrates knowledge of research development and utilization within a biostatistical framework using appropriate information technology and data management systems.

  
  • NURS 7040 - Quality Clinical Practice: Transforming Health Care

    Hours: 3
    This course examines the role of the APN in assuring the delivery of quality health care to all members of society. Students transform health care through advanced practice nursing roles as practice experts, agents of change, and educators of the profession. Students design sustainable strategies that improve the quality and access of health care. Students analyze current health care delivery including measures of clinical performance; compliance with state and federal regulations in relation to standards and access of care; integrates quality performance standards of benchmarking in clinical arenas.

  
  • NURS 7050 - Knowledge Building

    Hours: 2
    This course examines the scientific underpinnings of advanced practice nursing. It includes an exploration of the major philosophies of science and the history of knowledge development. Students examine the creation, use and critique of theories from nursing and other disciplines that support advanced practice. The current focus on middle range theories will be explored and the relationship of theories to research and practice will be analyzed. Cutting edge developments in science such as genomics will be examined for their relationship to advanced clinical practice.

  
  • NURS 7060 - Evidence-Based Practice

    Hours: 3
    Emphasizes concepts of research and scholarship as foundations for doctoral education, including concepts of scholarship of discovery, translation, integration and application. Integrates translation of research into practice and, evaluation of practice. Promotes generation of evidence through practice to guide improvements and outcomes in clinical practice. Advanced research techniques will be examined for applicability. Students will translate research for practice applications and disseminate research results for evidence-based practice. Prerequisites: NURS 5220 or equivalent with a minimum grade of B-.

  
  • NURS 7065 - Informatics

    Hours: 3
    Emphasizes use of information systems/technology to support and improve patient care and healthcare systems. Integrates leadership within healthcare systems to help design, select, and use information systems/technology to evaluate programs of care outcomes of care and care systems. Discusses use of information systems/technology as a mechanism to apply budget and productivity tools, practice information systems and decision supports and web based learning or intervention tools to support and improve patient care.

  
  • NURS 7070 - Special Topics in Leadership

    Hours: 3
    Provides students the opportunity to explore advanced practice nursing, organizational and systems leadership in specific area of interest focusing on a target population or broad community. Explores new care delivery models based on contemporary science and feasible within current organizational, political, cultural and economic perspectives. Emphasis on interprofessional collaboration to address emerging practice problems and ethical dilemmas. Prerequisites: NURS 7040, 7060 with minimum grades of B-.

  
  • NURS 7900 - Clinical Project Seminar

    Hours: 3
    This course focuses on the integration of nursing theory, research, and advanced nursing practice into a health care clinical project through an interactive seminar format. Students create a clinical project that transforms clinical practice for a selected population and incorporates process and outcome evaluations. The clinical project will be designed in accordance with Department of Nursing graduate guidelines. Prerequisites: NURS 7030, 7040, 7050 with minimum grades of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 7910 - Project Advising

    Hours: 1
    Develops and implements clinical practice based projects related to evidence-based practice. Integrates practice in areas of specialization within the larger domain of nursing. Demonstrates advanced clinical skills and knowledge related to individualized clinical practice and evidence-based project. Prerequisites: NURS 7900 with a minimum grade of B-.

  
  • NURS 7950 - Clinical Seminar and Internship

    Hours: 5
    This course promotes synthesis of concepts from the advanced practice area with knowledge gained from leadership, policy, epidemiology, quality and evidence based practice courses. Through an individualized internship experience, the DNP student will apply advanced practice and doctoral competencies such as leadership and interprofessional collaborations for quality improvement of individuals and populations. This course focuses on development of additional breadth and depth in clinical practice that addresses the multifaceted needs of individuals and populations needing advance practice nursing. Prerequisites: NURS 7900 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
  
  • NURS 8000 - Clinical Project

    Hours: 3
    This course provides students the opportunity to integrate and investigate nursing theory, research, and advanced nursing practice. Students transform health care through the design, implementation, and evaluation of a selected clinical project in collaboration with nursing faculty, preceptor(s), and health care agencies. The clinical project will be conducted in accordance with Department of Nursing graduate guidelines. Prerequisites: NURS 7060, 7950 with minimum grades of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours.
 

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