This course is designed to assist the registered nurse with a non-nursing bachelor's degree to develop the knowledge and skills to transition into the Master of Science (M.S.N.) program. The student will build upon current nursing experience and knowledge as well as previous baccalaureate education in order to demonstrate recommended competencies in baccalaureate nursing prior to beginning the M.S.N. coursework. (6 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 4900

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Correlate the role of the professional nurse to the global healthcare environment.
• Analyze the relationship between the historical evolution of nursing and the practice of nursing.
• Examine the professional values and ethical and legal principles that guide professional nursing practice.
• Analyze the relationship of selected nursing, sociological, behavioral, biochemical, learning, health promotion, and family theories in evidence based practices in nursing
• Synthesize the use of information technology in administering technology in administering health care, educating consumers and personnel and evaluating health care delivery and personnel
• Formulate strategies to address political, cultural, legal and ethical issues facing nurse leaders within the current health care system
• Implement strategies to motivate others in adapting to changing situations in the health care environments
• Utilize evidence-based practice in the decision making process to improve financial viability and other economic issues impacting the health care system.
• Synthesize knowledge from nursing, business, and other disciplines to promote financial stability and responsibility
• Synthesize knowledge from previous nursing experiences, concepts of epidemiology, and biostatistics in the assessment, planning and management of disease and the development of health promotion, risk reduction and disease prevention interventions
• Evaluate the impact of public policy and budget considerations in the planning and development of health promotion and disease prevention interventions
• Integrate conflict resolution skills to resolve discrepancies among nursing practice, health policy, and political constraints involving vulnerable populations
• Explore advances in genetics and genomics research as it relates to nursing practice.

This course introduces the RN to the advanced nurse role as leader, collaborator, change agent, advocate for population health and scholar. Theories of leadership, change and decision making are explored and applied to health care delivery situations. Issues affecting population health, including communication, collaboration, information management, diversity and ethics are examined. Students are introduced to the importance of scholarship in the advanced roles of nursing. (3 semester hours)

Course Objectives of Student Learning for NSG 5000

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Articulate essential components of the role of the advanced nurse.
• Apply leadership, change, and decision-making theories to improve health care delivery and outcomes.
• Examine influences that affect population health.
• Employ communication and collaboration strategies to improve patient and population health outcomes.
• Discuss the importance of scholarship to the advanced roles of nursing.

This course examines the relationship of theory to research and practice. Emphasis is placed on understanding the development, testing, and application of theory within the research process and nursing practice. Various approaches to the research process and the use of evidence in nursing practice are explored. Ethical foundations related to research are introduced. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5100

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Analyze the relationship between theory, practice and research.
• Examine various approaches to the research process.
• Explore the use of evidence in nursing practice.
• Assess ethical foundations in conducting research.
• Formulate a researchable nursing problem.

This course focuses on the use of data / findings as a basis for clinical decision making. The roles of information management systems and data analysis software are applied to nursing research. Data are assessed related to nursing practice situations for their quality and rigor. Ethical issues associated with data management are explored. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5110

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Examine the relationship between data / findings and clinical decision making.
• Explore the role of management information systems in research.
• Utilize computer software to analyze data.
• Assess current and relevant data needed to answer questions in nursing practice.
• Analyze ethical issues associated data management.
• Evaluate the quality of inquiry and published research.

This course focuses on the use of interdisciplinary evidence in nursing practice. The impact of Interdisciplinary collaboration in research is emphasized. Strategies for disseminating synthesized evidence to promote improved population health outcomes are explored. Analysis of ethical considerations for decision making is addressed. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5120

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Incorporate scholarly inquiry in nursing practice.
• Examine the impact of interdisciplinary collaboration in research for improving patient and population healthcare outcomes.
• Appraise stregies to disseminate evidence to make recommendations for improving patient outcomes.
• Analyze ethical considerations associated with the application of evidence used for decision making.
• Evaluate synthesized interdisciplinary evidence for translation into practice.

This course focuses on providing the present and future nurse leaders with an understanding of health policy, finance, and the legal impacts on health care. Political advocacy and the health policy change process will be explored. This course will also review of healthcare management, budgets, cost effectiveness, reimbursement and fiscal accountability effecting health policy. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5130

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Examine the evolution of health care policy's impact on the current health care system.
• Appraise the nurse leaders’ role within today's public health care policy environment.
• Analyze the policy process and the importance of this process in the health care delivery system.
• Apply financial and economic indicators to a proposed healthcare initiative.
• Examine the impact of the legal system and its effects on health care nursing practice.

This course introduces the student to skills and knowledge associated with roles and responsibilities of the nurse educator. The learner needs; environment, trends, policies, protocols, fiscal, ethical and legal aspects of education will be explored. Systems thinking as it relates to the nurse educator will be examined. Core competencies for nurse educators will be examined. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5350

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Explore the function and responsibilities of the nurse educator in an academic or health care setting.
• Examine the legal and ethical aspects of education.
• Analysis trends affecting the academic setting.
• Evaluate the role of nurse educator in the scholarship of teaching, discovery, application/practice and integration.
• Examine the relationship of systems thinking to the nurse educator role.

This course focuses on the process of curriculum development. Accreditation standards, trends in professional nursing practice, economic, and policy issues are analyzed within the context of curriculum development and program evaluation. Selected nursing and educational theories, principles and techniques of curriculum development are explored. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5300

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Explore educational theories and their implications for curriculum development.
• Analyze the impact of health care, social, economic, educational, and professional and policy trends on curriculum development.
• Evaluate a curriculum using current evidence, theory, professional, regulatory, and accreditation standards.
• Construct a curriculum revision plan based on analysis of learner needs, community needs, health care trends and accreditation standards.

This course provides the conceptual basis for teaching and learning. The relationships between learning outcomes, learning styles, instructional strategies, assignments, activities, assessment, and evaluation in educational environments are identified. Strategies for promoting student success and classroom management are examined. Various educational environments are explored. Ethical considerations of instruction are included. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5370

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Apply concepts of the teaching learning process related to a conceptual framework of a nursing curriculum.
• Identify the relationships between learning outcomes, learning styles, instructional strategies, assignments, activities, assessment, and evaluation in educational environments.
• Discuss the similarities and differences between various educational environments.
• Examine strategies for classroom management.
• Explore strategies to promote student success.
• Incorporate ethical concepts in instructional practice.

This course builds on the educational concepts introduced in NSG 5370. Students apply these concepts in the design of instructional strategies, assignment, activities, assessment and evaluation for learning outcomes in various educational environments. The use of media and instructional technologies to achieve learning outcomes is explored. Methods to assess and evaluate learning outcomes are analyzed. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5380

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Determine the most appropriate instructional strategies, assignments, activities, assessment, and evaluation for learning outcomes in various educational environments.
• Evaluate the use of instructional technologies and media as support for achievement of learning outcomes.
• Analyze subjective and objective methods to assess and evaluate learning outcomes.

This course assists students to synthesize the educational concepts in the design and evaluation of courses and curricula. Instructional strategies related to the clinical setting are explored. Methods of evaluation of learning outcomes are developed. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5390

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Examine strategies for handling professional, legal, and ethical issues in the clinical environment.
• Construct a method of evaluation based on learning outcomes
• Develop a course incorporating educational concepts.
• Evaluate the integration of various educational concepts within a nursing curriculum.

This course provides an opportunity for students to analyze, synthesize and utilize all prior courses in an educational environment. Students are mentored by preceptors who are experienced in educational roles in various settings. (6 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5360

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Integrate educational and nursing theories in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of nursing program.
• Employ instructional strategies that recognize the diversity learner.
• Implement assessment and evaluation methods in a variety of learning environments.
• Incorporate evidence based research in educational practices.

This course provides the student with an opportunity to utilize models, processes, and theoretical frameworks of decision making as a foundation for leadership activities in complex health systems. Internal and external factors impacting decision making will be explored and analyzed. The influence of Systems thinking, trend analysis, data, evidence quality and interpersonal collaboration is examined. Ethical considerations of decision making are evaluated. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5230

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Utilize models, processes, and/or theoretical frameworks for decision making in complex health systems.
• Analyze internal and external factors impacting decision making in health care.
• Examine the influence of systems thinking, trend analysis, data, evidence and quality in the decision making process.
• Access the impact of inter-professional collaboration on healthcare outcomes.
• Evaluate ethical considerations in decision making.

The course focuses on the perspective of nursing governance from a global to a unit level. Governance models, human resource management, work environments and best practices related to health systems leadership are explored. Self governance models and human resource strategies in the practice environments are designed and applied. Ethical and legal issues related to governance and resource management are included. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5240

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Utilize governance models, processes and theoretical frameworks to provide leadership in complex health systems.
• Design the implementation of nursing governance structure in a complex health care system.
• Analyze systems effects of nursing governance models exert within a complex health system.
• Examine principle of resource management in a complex health system.
• Evaluate legal and ethical issues related to nursing governance and resource management.

This course focuses on fiscal management impacting nursing practice and healthcare delivery. Students will develop foundational knowledge applicable to fiscal management and develop strategies to improve decision making. Students will apply fiscal management principles to a current issue. The relationship between fiscal and ethical responsibility is examined. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5250

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Analyze the effects of fiscal management on the nursing practice in the health care delivery.
• Apply accounting principles to fiscal decision making.
• Design strategies for managing a fiscally sound nursing environment.
• Examine the relationship between fiscal and ethical responsibilities.

This course provides the student with an opportunity to examine various healthcare informatics theories and policies related to the entire implementation process of information systems in a complex health care system. During the course students will apply concepts learned to the ethical use of data, information, and knowledge in clinical practice and research. Students will also analyze the critical elements in the life cycle of information and patient care technology systems. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5270

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Examine healthcare informatics theories using the concepts of data, information, and knowledge to describe information systems.
• Analyze legislation, public and organizational policies related to information management in the health care system.
• Analyze critical elements necessary in the selection, use, analysis, and evaluation of healthcare information systems and patient care technology.
• Evaluate emerging patterns and trends in electronic information processing and the ethical/legal issues that arise from technology.

This course focuses on nursing leadership roles within a complex health system. The student will explore leadership, change, and organizational culture theories to systems thinking. Students will develop strategies for introducing and sustaining change. Ethical and legal concerns related to the nursing leadership role are explored. (3 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5340

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Articulate the role of the nurse leader in complex health system.
• Examine the application of leadership, change, and organizational culture theories to systems thinking.
• Analyze the impact of health care trends on nursing leadership.
• Examine ethical and legal concerns related to the nursing leadership role.
• Design strategies to meet regulatory and accreditation standards in a complex health systems.

This course provides opportunity for the student to analyze, synthesize and utilize all content from prior courses in a nursing leadership environment. Students are mentored by preceptors that are experienced in leadership roles in complex health systems. (6 semester hours)

Course Outcomes of Student Learning for NSG 5490

The student successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Incorporate leadership and decision-making theory to promote quality and safety within levels of complex health systems.
• Develop interventions to utilize information technology and inter-professional collaboration to improve the outcomes of the complex health systems.
• Integrate human, fiscal, economic, material resources in the management and evaluation of changing complex health systems.
• Evaluate the nursing leadership role in the application of systems thinking in decision making.
• Design strategies to meet regulatory and accreditation standards based on analysis of current trends and data impacting complex health systems.
• Appraise legal and ethical considerations related to the nurse leader role in complex health systems.

This course provides opportunity for the student to analyze, synthesize and utilize all content from prior courses in a community / public health environment. Students are mentored by preceptors that are experienced in community / public health. (6 semester hours)