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B.S. in Actuarial Science

Otterbein University Course Catalogs

2015-2016 Graduate Catalog 
    
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2015-2016 Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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  • NURS 6729 - Nurse Anesthesia Clinical Practicum I

    Hours: 2
    This initial practicum course provides the student opportunities to apply cognitive and psychomotor skills obtained in the laboratory practicum course to the perioperative setting. Under direct supervision, the student creates anesthesia plans for all phases of anesthesia based on findings from patient history and physical examination. Emphasis is placed upon the provision of safe, effective and culturally sensitive nurse anesthesia care in healthy patients across the lifespan. Prerequisites: NURS 5010, 6716, 6717, 6718 with minimum grades of B-. Co-requisites: NURS 6726.

    Notes:
    This course is pass/fail graded.
  

  • NURS 6736 - Advanced Principles of Nurse Anesthesia I

    Hours: 4
    This course provides in-depth advanced practice nurse anesthesia knowledge and skills involving patients with highly specialized problems and conditions across anesthesia specializations. Concepts include: history and physical findings, basic and advanced anesthesia techniques for specialty surgical procedures including patients with highly specialized problems and conditions. Delivery of culturally sensitive, interdisciplinary, safe and effective nurse anesthesia care across the lifespan is emphasized. Prerequisites: NURS 6726, 6729. Co-requisites: NURS 6739.

  

  • NURS 6739 - Nurse Anesthesia Clinical Practicum II

    Hours: 3
    This second practicum course provides the student opportunities to apply cognitive and psychomotor nurse anesthesia skills to patients with highly specialized problems and conditions across anesthesia/surgical specializations during the perioperative setting. The student creates anesthesia plans for all phases of anesthesia based on findings from patient history and physical examination. Emphasis is placed upon the provision of safe, effective and culturally sensitive nurse anesthesia care in patients across the lifespan. Prerequisites: NURS 6726, 6729. Co-requisites: NURS 6736.

    Notes:
    This course is pass/fail graded.
  

  • NURS 6746 - Advanced Principles of Nurse Anesthesia II

    Hours: 4
    This course provides in-depth advanced practice nurse anesthesia knowledge and skills for specific patient populations and patients with complex problems and conditions. Concepts include history and physical findings, basic and advanced anesthesia techniques for specific patient populations and patients with complex problems and conditions. Delivery of culturally sensitive, interdisciplinary, safe and effective nurse anesthesia care across the lifespan is emphasized. Prerequisites: NURS 6736, 6739. Co-requisites: NURS 6747, 6749.

  

  • NURS 6747 - Advanced Practice Anesthesia Nursing: The Role in Healthcare Delivery

    Hours: 2
    The focus of this course is to critically examine the past, present and future contributions of the role of anesthesia nursing, an advanced practice nursing specialty, to the health care delivery system. This course explores the utility of variety scientific and social perspectives and frameworks for nurse anesthesia to consider in expanding their role, function and contributions in the healthcare delivery system Prerequisites: NURS 6736, 6739. Co-requisites: NURS 6746, 6749.

  

  • NURS 6749 - Nurse Anesthesia Clinical Practicum III

    Hours: 4
    This final practicum course provides the student opportunities to apply cognitive and psychomotor nurse anesthesia skills to specific patient populations and patients with complex problems and conditions during the perioperative setting. With minimal supervision, the student creates anesthesia plans for all phases of anesthesia based on findings from patient history and physical examination. Emphasis is placed upon the provision of safe, effective and culturally sensitive nurse anesthesia care in patients with complex problems and conditions across the lifespan. Prerequisites: NURS 6736, 6739. Co-requisites: NURS 6746, 6747.

    Notes:
    This course is pass/fail graded.
  

  • NURS 6759 - Advanced Practicum in Nurse Anesthesia I

    Hours: 6
    This is the initial integration and synthesis course of advanced knowledge and skills for interdisciplinary anesthesia nursing care. Selected topics and clinical case studies include collaborative decision-making, effective communication, planning and evaluation for patients with highly complex problems and conditions across the lifespan. With continual guidance, students assume greater responsibility for the provision of safe, effective and culturally sensitive nurse anesthesia care in patients with highly complex problems and conditions across the lifespan. Prerequisites: NURS 6746, 6747, 6749.

    Notes:
    This course is pass/fail graded.
  

  • NURS 6769 - Advanced Practicum in Nurse Anesthesia II

    Hours: 6
    This course is the second integration and synthesis course of advanced knowledge and skills for interdisciplinary anesthesia nursing care for patients with highly complex problems and conditions across the lifespan. With periodic guidance, students assume greater responsibility for the provision of safe, effective and culturally sensitive nurse anesthesia care in patients with highly complex problems and conditions across the lifespan. Prerequisites: NURS 6759.

    Notes:
    This course is pass/fail graded.
  

  • NURS 6779 - Advanced Practicum in Nurse Anesthesia III

    Hours: 6
    This course is the third and final integration and synthesis course of advanced knowledge and skills for interdisciplinary anesthesia nursing care for patients with highly complex problems and conditions across the lifespan. With minimal guidance, students assume greater responsibility for the provision of safe, effective and culturally sensitive nurse anesthesia care in patients with highly complex problems and conditions across the lifespan. Prerequisites: NURS 6769.

    Notes:
    This course is pass/fail graded.
     
  

  • 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.

    Notes:
    This course has an additional fee.
  

  • 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.

    Notes:
    This course has an additional fee.
  

  • 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.

    Notes:
    This course has an additional fee.
  

  • NURS 7050 - Knowledge Building

    Hours: 3
    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.

    Notes:
    This course has an additional fee.
  

  • 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.

    Notes:
    This course has an additional fee.
  

  • 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.

    Notes:
    This course has an additional fee.
  

  • NURS 7075 - Financial and Business Decision Making for Project/Strategic Planning

    Hours: 3
    This course will focus on health systems as businesses, including macro financial management, cost/benefit analyses of innovation, and the writing of business plans which will allow DNP Nurse Executive graduates to be full partners with physicians and other health care professionals in redesigning health care. Prerequisites: NURS 7030 and NURS 7040 with minimum grades of B-.

    Notes:
    This course has an additional fee.
  

  • 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 (or this course may be taken concurrently with NURS 7900) and 7040 with minimum grades of B-.

    Notes:
    Includes clinical hours. This course has an additional fee.
  

  • 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.

    Notes:
    This course has an additional fee.
  

  • NURS 7950 - Clinical Seminar/Internship (Advanced Practice)

    Hours: 5
    This course promotes synthesis of concepts from the advanced practice area with knowledge gained from prior DNP course work (N7050 Knowledge Building; N7060 Evidence Based Practice; N7040 Quality Clinical Practice; N7035 Epi/Biostats; N7030 Politics/Policy of Health Care; N7070 Special Topics in Leadership). Through an individualized internship experience, the DNP student will apply learned DNP competencies (found within AACN’s DNP Essentials, 2006) to further explore and develop the scholarly project aimed at addressing the multifaceted needs of the target population. 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. This course has an additional fee.
  

  • NURS 7955 - Clinical Seminar/Internship (Nurse Executives)

    Hours: 2
    This course promotes synthesis of concepts from the advanced practice area with knowledge gained from prior DNP course work (N7050 Knowledge Building; N7060 Evidence Based Practice; N7040 Quality Clinical Practice; N7035 Epi/Biostats; N7030 Politics/Policy of Health Care; N7070 Special Topics in Leadership). Through an individualized internship experience, the DNP student will apply learned DNP competencies (found within AACN’s DNP Essentials, 2006) to further explore and develop the scholarly project aimed at addressing the multifaceted needs of the target population. Prerequisites: NURS 7900 with a minimum grade of B-.

    Notes:

    Includes clinical hours. This course has and additional fee.
  

  • 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. This course has an additional fee.
  

  • PHED 5000 - Sport and Recreation for Individuals with Disabilities

    Hours: 4
    This course is designed to investigate recreation and sports organizations that serve individuals with disabilities as well as the practical application of principles underlying the provision of services. The course will focus on individual populations and the respective barriers to participation, the process of program planning and resources development that alter these limitations, and the practical experience of application of a particular plan. Topics to be explored include the role of the United States Olympic Committee, Committee on Sports for the Disabled, classification of athletes for competition, role of the National Governing Bodies in promoting sports, and ways people with disabilities can access sports & non-competitive opportunities. Attention will also be devoted to a study of successful community and institutional programs.

  

  • PHED 5500 - Adapted Physical Education Assessment & Program Planning

    Hours: 4
    Focus will be on assessment and program planning for students in a Physical Education Setting. Students will be exposed to principles for adapting both curriculum and equipment in the physical education environment to meet the diverse needs of learners in inclusive and exclusive learning environments. This course will require practical experiences with students in a physical activity setting including assessment and application of the latest assessment instruments for students with and without identified disabilities.

  

  • PHED 6000 - Field Experience and Seminar in Adapted Physical Education

    Hours: 3
    This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to explore the field in depth. Focus will be on examination of issues in Adapted Physical Education as they relate to physical and motor performance behavior of children with disabilities. This course will primarily be designed around case study discussion, research literature and analysis of program-related field observations. Prerequisites: PHED 5000 and PHED 5500. Corequisites: PHED 6500 or instructor permission.

  

  • PHED 6500 - LAB: Field Experience and Seminar in Adapted Physical Education

    Hours: 1
    The course is designed to provide the student with experience with children who have a variety of physical, cognitive, sensory, and emotional needs in the physical education environment. Prerequisites: PHED 5000 and PHED 5500. Corequisites: PHED 6000 or instructor permission.

 

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