NUR-535 |
Leadership & Health Policy |
This course focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary to provide exemplary leadership of groups and interprofessional teams with an emphasis on relationship and team building. Emphasis is to further enhance leadership skill development in order to resolve complex clinical situations, improve practice environments, and lead integrated health care delivery teams. In addition, the role of the nurse advancing nursing practice through developing health policy and advocacy systems will be examined. Approaches to health issues for shaping policy on a local, state and federal level are analyzed in accordance with policy making processes, politics in health care |
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and government, healthcare economics, and ethical frameworks. |
3.00 |
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NUR-544 |
Cli Prac & Role IV: Comp Health Prob |
This course focuses on key concepts in care of the adult patient with selected complex acute diagnoses across the health-illness continuum by the Clinical Nurse Leader prepared nurse. There is specific focus on the physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural forces impacting the complex and acute health status of the adult population. This course is a combination of theory and clinical. There is emphasis on graduate nursing concepts and frameworks in care of adult patient experiencing selected complex acute diagnoses including communication, safety, organization, critical thinking, clinical judgement and the nursing process. Additionally, this course introduces students to common complex acute diagnoses impacting body systems of the adult patient with selected complex acute diagnoses across the health-illness continuum. Students have learning opportunities to apply knowledge, skills, and competencies in complex acute care of adult patients with selected complex acute |
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care diagnoses requiring complex nursing care. |
5.00 |
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NUR-545 |
Cli Pra / Rol Dev V: Community Health Nsg |
This course introduces the concepts of community health utilizing the populationfocused nursing process. This course emphasizes the care of culturally diverse individuals, families, and aggregates in a variety of community settings with an emphasis on identifying and caring for vulnerable populations. Community health nursing concepts as well as the importance of developing cultural humility to ensure sensitive and equitable health care delivery will be stressed. The impact of the health care delivery system on the nurse as well individual and community health outcomes will be explored. The role of the professional nurse, the clinical nurse leader and interdisciplinary healthcare team members in the community will be critically analyzed. Practice experience is required and students will be exposed to the culturally diverse population, health disparities that exist in Pennsylvania and the United States and some of the efforts by individuals, groups, organizations, to deal with disparities. Clinicals will be completed in a variety of community settings including home care, hospice, extended |
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care facilities and population focused settings. |
5.00 |
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NUR-546 |
Hea Prom & Dis Prevent Lifespane & Globe |
This course will examine ways health care delivery systems, public health agencies, community-based organizations, and other engaged stakeholders work in collaboration to develop interventions to improve the health outcomes of both individuals and populations in the local, national, and global arena. An upstream thinking approach will be utilized focusing on the social determinants of health, fundamental issues of health equity, and social justice across the lifespan. Continued attention to epidemiologic principles will enhance the knowledge needed to understand the natural history and burden of diseases, the evaluation of preventive interventions, and the globalization of health. The expanded role of the masters prepared nurse in local, national, |
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and global population health will continue to be explored. |
3.00 |
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