Nursing-Graduate (NGR)

Provides clinical and simulated learning experiences in the delivery of anesthesia services to patients with increasingly complex conditions and for increasingly complex surgical and medically related procedures. Students develop practicum skills along a novice-proficient continuum.

Provides clinical and simulated learning experiences in the delivery of anesthesia services to patients with increasingly complex conditions and for increasingly complex surgical and medically related procedures. Students develop practicum skills along a novice-proficient continuum.

Provides clinical and simulated learning experiences in the delivery of anesthesia services to patients with increasingly complex conditions and for increasingly complex surgical and medically related procedures. Students develop practicum skills along a novice-proficient continuum.

Provides clinical and simulated learning experiences in the delivery of anesthesia services to patients with increasingly complex conditions and for increasingly complex surgical and medically related procedures. Students develop practicum skills along a novice-proficient continuum.

Provides clinical and simulated learning experiences in the delivery of anesthesia services to patients with increasingly complex conditions and for increasingly complex surgical and medically related procedures. Students develop practicum skills along a novice-proficient continuum.

Integrates scholarship and leadership in the delivery of anesthesia services to patients with increasingly complex conditions and for increasingly complex surgical and medically related procedures. Students develop practicum skills along a novice-proficient continuum.

Integrates scholarship and leadership in the delivery of anesthesia services to patients with increasingly complex conditions and for increasingly complex surgical and medically related procedures. Students develop practicum skills along a novice-proficient continuum.

Collection and synthesis of client database and differential diagnosis of common client problems. Using critical thinking and a holistic lifespan approach, students interpret, analyze, and document alterations in health to serve as a basis for client management.

Emphasis is placed skills needed to assess health status of individuals across the lifespan. Students interpret, analyze, and document alterations in health to serve as a basis for client management.

In-depth exploration of advanced human anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology across the lifespan. Explores the renal, neurologic, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, lymphatic, and respiratory systems at the biochemical, cellular, tissue, and systems levels.

Emphasis is placed on investigation, analysis, and interpretation of pathophysiologic bases of clinical manifestations of selected alterations in health. Focus is on advanced practice nursing implications for health promotion, maintenance, and restoration.

Continued study of advanced pathophysiology with emphasis on the body's homeostasis mechanisms and their aberrant function.

In-depth exploration of advanced human anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology across the lifespan. Explores the endocrine, gastrointestinal, hepatic, hematologic, integumentary, and immune systems at the biochemical, cellular, tissue, and systems levels.

Study of advanced pathophysiology with emphasis on the body's homeostasis mechanisms and their aberrant function.

Continuation of Advanced Anatomy and Physiology I with emphasis on homeostatic mechanisms and their aberrations. Further study of selected disease processes provides the foundation for advanced clinical decision making.

Focus is on the knowledge and skills to assess, diagnose and pharmacologically manage common health problems in a safe, high quality, cost-effective manner. Emphasis is on Pharmacotherapeutics using an integrative approach to examine the use and efficacy of traditional and some complementary drug therapies used in advanced practice nursing.

Theoretical and practice bases for providing primary health care to adults in the community. Emphasis is on advanced practice nursing strategies for promotion and maintenance of health and management of adult health needs.

Practice course for NGR 6240. Focus is on the beginning application of nurse practitioner knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of adult clients.

Incorporation and integration of all components of the primary health nurse care practitioner role developed in preceding courses with further refinement of advanced practice knowledge and competency with emphasis on the older adult.

Practice course for NGR 6252. Emphasis is on further refinement of advanced practice knowledge and competency with emphasis on the older adult incorporation and integration of all components of the primary health nurse care practitioner role developed in preceding courses.

The course focuses on strategies for health promotion, maintenance and prevention of common health problems and management of alterations in children and families.

Practice course for NGR 6305. Emphasis is on the continued application of knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of children and their families. The course focuses on common health problems and management of alterations in children and their families.

This course explores advanced principles of chemistry, biochemistry, and physics as applied to the delivery of anesthesia services.

Focuses on the delivery of general anesthesia and a variety of regional anesthetics to patients across the lifespan with a variety of physical conditions and for a variety of surgical and medically related procedures.

Theory and principles related to technological devices used in perioperative nursing. Emphasis on operation and use of monitoring devices such as transducers, oximeters, and capnographs.

Builds upon previously learned knowledge of advanced scientific principles and explores general principles of anesthesia that are essential for the delivery of safe, individualized, culturally competent, and cost effective anesthesia services throughout the perianesthesia continuum.

Builds upon knowledge of scientific and general principles of anesthesia in the delivery of anesthesia services. Focuses on delivery of general anesthesia and a variety of regional anesthetics to geriatric, obese, obstetric, and pediatric patients.

In-depth exploration of advanced principles of human pharmacology as applied to advanced nursing practice. Focuses on pharmacologic and adjunctive agents commonly used in the delivery of anesthesia services and related implications for clinical anesthesia practice.

In-depth exploration of advanced principles of human pharmacology as applied to advanced nursing practice. Focuses on pharmacologic agents commonly used for the management of pathophysiologic conditions and related implications for clinical anesthesia practice.

Comprehensive review of knowledge learned throughout the DNP Nurse Anesthesiology Program related to basic sciences, equipment instrumentation and technology, general principles of anesthesia, anesthesia for surgical procedures and special populations, and professional responsibility.

Emphasis is on the development of clinical expertise in the management of psychiatric and mental health disorders across the lifespan.

Focus is on the theoretical and conceptual models of group psychotherapy and management and treatment of adults, children, and families across the lifespan.

Focus is on the theoretical and conceptual models of individual and family psychotherapy, pharmacological, and non-pharmacological care of individuals and families across the lifespan.

Focus is on advanced concepts in neurobiology, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and the psychopharmacological management of individuals across the lifespan with psychiatric and mental health disorders.

Emphasis is placed on mental health assessment of clients across the life span within the context of the advanced psychiatric mental health nursing role.

Focuses on theory and evidence-based health promotion practice for individuals, aggregates, communities, and vulnerable populations in a global, multicultural society.

Emphasis on the role of the nurse educator in the academic setting. Integrates the core competencies and best teaching practices needed to be successful in academia and to transform nursing education and educational practices.

Emphasis is on attainment of nurse educator competencies in developing and implementing teaching and assessment strategies used in classroom, laboratory, and clinical settings to enhance the achievement of learner outcomes.

Focuses on application of creative teaching strategies used in the classroom, online, clinical, and simulation environments.

Exploration of nursing education within a broad context related to history, philosophy and the principles of adult-learning theory.

Emphasis is on the role of the nurse educator in developing program outcomes, and designing and evaluating nursing curricula that reflect contemporary health care trends in which graduates are prepared to practice in a complex, dynamic, multicultural health care environments.

Focus on methods to measure student learning outcomes and student performance in various educational settings. Emphasis on test construction and test writing skills.

Examination of professional, organizational, legal, ethical, political, and economic influences on advanced nursing. Standards and scope of practice are explored.

The course focuses on strategies for health maintenance and prevention of common health problems, and management of health alterations in women and families.

: Practice course for NGR 6741. Focus is on the application of knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of women. The course focuses on common health problems and management of alterations in women and families.

Examination and evaluation of questions, methods, designs, and frameworks for research and evidence-based practice.

Focus is on analysis of evolving information technology and its application to traditional and new environments of nursing. Emphasis is further directed to examination and evaluation of nursing and healthcare information management systems to enhance and promote optimum patient outcomes in a cost effective, safe, and ethical manner.

Comprehensive examination of global trends and issues with implications for shaping health care delivery and improving global health outcomes.

Directed, individualized study of a current concept, problem, or issue pertaining to nursing.

Examination of advanced topics in nursing. The course may be repeated for different topic areas, and content may vary.

Practicum for implementation of selected aspects of the nurse educator role including classroom, laboratory, clinical, and online teaching; participation in faculty governance; and enacting the role of a novice nurse educator using Boyer’s Model of Scholarship.

Culmination of application of evidence-based nursing education. Students will demonstrate competency through the design, implementation, and analytical outcome measurements of a scholarly project.

Supervised clinical practice integrating advanced nursing knowledge related to nursing care of a specific patient population or role.

Builds upon knowledge of evidence-based scientific and anesthesia principles to solve complex problems encountered in the delivery of anesthesia services and to improve the quality of anesthesia care.

Focus is on application and analysis of complex advanced nursing practice issues related to pharmacotherapeutics, genetics, and genomics as an essential component of patient-centered care. Emphasis further directed to the examination and evaluation of nursing and healthcare information management systems to enhance and promote optimum patient outcomes in a cost effective, safe and ethical manner.

This course focuses on evidence-based theoretical and clinical aspects of the administration and management of regional anesthesia and the management of acute and chronic pain.

This course examines professional, cultural, legal, regulatory, ethical, and health policy issues relevant to advanced practice nursing and the development of the professional role of the nurse anesthetist.

Examination of major issues and challenges forming the foundation of advanced practice nursing. Focus is on historical evolution of the role, healthcare ethics, legal risk of practice, quality improvement indicators of practice, and culturally competent healthcare.

Analysis of major issues and directions for advanced practice nursing. Emphasis is on reimbursement, quality indicators of patient safety and satisfaction, relevance of theory-based practice in the management of care, and public policy and the political process of change.

Emphasis is on statistical analysis methods that are used in clinical and population health research. Focuses on epidemiological perspective on health by addressing general approaches for describing patterns of disease in populations.

Focus is on the acquisition of skills in the translation, application, and evaluation of research emphasizing evidence-based practice to solve clinical problems and promote optimum health outcomes.

This course examines issues related to leadership, finance, and practice management in the delivery of anesthesia services.

Analysis of processes involved in health policy development, dissemination, and implementation. Focus is directed at evaluation of issues impacting policy decision making.

Focus is on developing abilities to conceptualize new care delivery models that are feasible within current organizational, political, cultural, and economic perspectives. Principles of practice management and strategies for balancing productivity with quality of care are emphasized.

Individualized guided practice experience at the doctoral level teaching in the classroom laboratory and clinical settings. Focus is on assimilation of the nurse educator role in academe.

Emphasis is on the development of clinical expertise in the management of health problems in selected populations.

A synthesis of work in which a project is planned, implemented, evaluated, and presented. The project addresses a complex practice or clinical problem within the student's field.