An historical, contemporary and futuristic exploration of the art and science of nursing praxis including patterns of knowing: empirical, ethical, aesthetic, existential and emancipatory. Theories and models derived from nursing and the social sciences are synthesized for their usefulness in advanced practice nursing care for individuals, families, and communities to promote health and manage a variety of problems such as health threats, acute and chronic illnesses, and transitions. Opportunities are provided for students to synthesize family health concepts for use in clinical practice, scholarship, and research.

Quantitative procedures including descriptive and inferential statistics, non-parametric approaches to data, and parametric analyses. Selected research designs are explored. Analytic techniques are applied for use in selected research designs in health sciences research. Cross listed with CLTR 5020.

Examination of qualitative and quantitative methods of primary research employed to answer questions in nursing practice. Concepts include patient safety and quality principles, quality/process improvement, and evidence-based practice processes. Emphasis is on problem identification; design principles; and accessing, analyzing, disseminating and applying research for evidence-based practice.

The focus of this course includes use of evidence-based practice (EBP) processes for individual patient management aligned with advanced nursing practice expectations and Standard of Care. Emphasis is on clinical problem identification, accessing, analyzing, and applying primary and select secondary source literature and clinical practice guideline findings to facilitate quality, safe, and individual patient care management.

This course is designed for nurses preparing for advanced nursing practice roles across varying population foci. Concepts will include advanced human physiology, pathophysiology, and common clinical manifestations. A body-systems framework will be used.

This course examines fetal, transitional, and neonatal physiology. Embryology is also discussed, as the basis for neonatal development.

This course is designed to enable students to put into practice the principles and skills needed for advanced health assessment of the neonate.

The purpose of this first clinical course is to introduce the role of the neonatal nurse practitioner clinician in the management of normal and high-risk families and infants.  The focus of the course is to develop skills in the physical and psychosocial assessment of high-risk childbearing families during all phases of the childbearing process: antenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and the neonatal period.  Special emphasis will be placed on events during the antenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum periods that impact the neonate.

The focus of this practicum is the assessment and management of moderately ill infants and their families.

Emphasis is placed on advanced principles of pharmacodynamics, pharmacotherapeutics, and pharmacologic management for the neonatal population as appropriate for the neonatal nurse practitioner role and scope of practice.

Focuses on the acquisition and application of in-depth physiological and psychological knowledge to the nursing care of high-risk neonates and their families. Emphasis is placed on the role of the advanced practice nursing management of high-risk neonatal populations.

This course builds on the mastered components from prior clinical course work (NURS 5369). The focus of this practicum is on the acquisition and application of in-depth physiological and psychosocial knowledge in the management of the high-risk neonatal population and their families with a moderate level of independence and autonomy in the NNP role as appropriate for second semester students.

This course focuses on the components essential for preparation of students for advanced practice in neonatal nursing.

This course builds on the mastered components from prior clinical course work (NURS 5369 and NURS 5379). The focus of this practicum is on the acquisition and application of in-depth physiological and psychosocial knowledge in the management of the high-risk neonatal population and their families with an advanced level of independence and autonomy in the NNP role as appropriate for final semester students.