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2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions GGHSON
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Accelerated B.S.N. Course Descriptions
Undergraduate courses are delivered in traditional, hybrid and online formats. All pre/co-requisites and any designated conditions/criteria for previous courses apply throughout the curriculum. All general education courses must be completed prior to beginning the nursing curriculum.
KEY: Courses are listed in numerical order
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Nursing
GNUR 3030 - Independent Study in Nursing Topic and objectives of study are mutually agreed upon by the student and selected faculty member. Independent study agreement formalizes the plan for study and guides evaluation. Semester hours and course may be repeated as topic and/or objective of study change.
Credit Hours: 1-6
Total Contact Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 0
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and Department Chair for Undergraduate Traditional Track
GNUR 3040 - Special Topics in Nursing Designed to focus on subjects of special interest to groups of students. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
Credit Hours: 1-6
Total Contact Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 0
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Prerequisites: *Elective* Consent of instructor and Department Chair for Undergraduate Track
GNUR 3126 - Scholarship for Evidence-based Practice I This is an introductory course exploring the theory and methods of evidence based practice with emphasis on its role in providing quality patient-centered care in the medical/surgical setting.
Department: Nursing
Credit Hours: 1
Total Contact Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 1
Delivery Method: ONLINE
GNUR 3221 - Introduction to the Nursing Profession An Introduction to the health care delivery system and the nursing profession.
Credit Hours: 2
Total Contact Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 2
Delivery Method: ONLINE
GNUR 3226 - Foundational Aspects of Professional Communication This course is designed to prepare students to communicate effectively in an intra-professional and an inter-professional approach. The focus includes professional therapeutic patient/client communication. The students will be expected to be able to listen, comprehend, and communicate accurate intellectual and affective understanding.
Credit Hours: 2
Total Contact Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 2
Delivery Method: HYBRID
Fee Type: Hybrid Fee
GNUR 3227 - Nursing Care of the Aging Adult An introduction to concepts of aging with a focus on health promotion, access to healthcare, maintenance of functional capacity and physiologic changes. Includes concepts to improve quality of life during common conditions experienced by the aging adult through interprofessional collaboration.
Department: Nursing
Credit Hours: 2
Total Contact Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 2
Delivery Method: HYBRID
Fee Type: Hybrid Fee
Prerequisites: GNUR 3307 , GNUR 3416 , GNUR 3530 , GNUR 3226 , GNUR 3221
GNUR 3307 - Health Assessment An introduction to health assessment as a systematic process with emphasis on developing skill in the techniques of assessment. Includes introductory concepts of data collection, health history, physical examination, use of technology to access and document holistic health assessment and clinical decision making. Performance assessment of skills is required in a laboratory experience
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 5
Lab Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Delivery Method: FACE
Corequisites: GNUR 3416 , GNUR 3530 , GNUR 3126 , GNUR 3226 , GNUR 3221
GNUR 3320 - Pharmacology This course introduces principles of pharmcodynamics and pharmacotherapy. Included will be classifications of drugs, the use of the nursing process for safe medication administration including legal and ethical standards. Life span, genetic, and cultural implications of drug therapy are explored. Evidenced based practice will be utilized using case studies and simulation of dosage calculations, routes and skills of administration, and methods of documentation.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: FACE
Prerequisites: GNUR 3307 , GNUR 3416 , GNUR 3530
GNUR 3331 - Mental Health Nursing This course emphasizes the concepts of altered mental health and the pathological processes associated with mental health disorders. The focus is on approaches to promote mental health/optimal function in the care of patients, groups, and families experiencing altered states of mental health utilizing evidence based standards of care.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 5
Lab Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Delivery Method: FACE
Fee Type: Faculty Intensive Fee
Prerequisites: GNUR 3126 , GNUR 3226 and GNUR 3221 , GNUR 3307 , GNUR 3416 , GNUR 3530
GNUR 3357 - Holistic Health Practices in Stress Management This course is an introduction to holistic health in stress management. Includes the role of the mind, body and universe in attaining high-level wellness; stress and its relationship to health; and the interaction of holistic health practices in the management of stress
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online Fee
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor and Dean of Academic Programs
GNUR 3366 - Hospice and Palliative Care This course will utilize readings from sociology, psychology, religion, and medical and nursing sciences as a background for discussing and analyzing therapeutic nursing interventions for care of the terminally ill client. Clinical and experimental techniques will be utilized to promote thought and discussion in order to explore death in its personal, general, and professional significance.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 4
Lab Hours: 1.5
Lecture Hours: 2.5
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online Fee
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor and Dean of Academic Programs
GNUR 3371 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare An interdisciplinary course surveying major legal and ethical issues in the delivery of healthcare.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online Fee
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor and Dean of Academic Programs
GNUR 3374 - Philosophical Issues and Problems in Human Caring Exploration of different avenues of approaching philosophical dilemmas in providing care to clients whose behaviors and value systems are difficult to accept. Examines select issues from the standpoints of philosophy and nursing.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online Fee
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor and Dean of Academic Programs
GNUR 3416 - Foundational Concepts of Nursing Practice-Didactic This course is an introduction to nursing as a systematic process with emphasis on the knowledge, core to evidence based professional nursing care, utilizing and attitude of clinical reasoning. Emphasis is on recognizing shared commonalities, yet diverse as to age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, lifestyle, socio-economic class, and sexual orientation, on the client’s health care.
Credit Hours: 4
Total Contact Hours: 4
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 4
Delivery Method: FACE
Prerequisites: GNUR 3221 , GNUR 3226 , GNUR 3307 , GNUR 3416 , GNUR 3530
Corequisites: GNUR 3530
GNUR 3420 - Chronic Care Nursing Clinical This course provides opportunities for students to integrate knowledge and theory essential to the care of patients experiencing chronic health alterations, with special focus on needs of the aging population. Clinical judgment and reasoning, therapeutic nursing skills, genetics, and pharmacology concepts necessary for chronic care delivery are demonstrated in the application of evidence based nursing care through case studies and weekly clinical experiences.
Credit Hours: 4
Total Contact Hours: 12
Lab Hours: 12
Lecture Hours: 0
Delivery Method: FACE
Fee Type: Faculty Intensive Fee
Prerequisites: GNUR 3221 , GNUR 3226 , GNUR 3307 , GNUR 3416 , GNUR 3530
Corequisites: GNUR 3485
GNUR 3485 - Concepts of Chronic Care Nursing This course emphasizes chronic care nursing concepts essential for professional nursing practice in a variety of settings. Special focus is on hte concepts of aging, health promotion, disease prevention, and genetics as well as illness management. Clinical judgment and reasoning and the integration of therapeutic nursing skills will be demonstrated through case study analysis and critical thinking activities.
Credit Hours: 4
Total Contact Hours: 4
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 4
Delivery Method: FACE
Prerequisites: GNUR 3221 , GNUR 3226 , GNUR 3307 , GNUR 3416 , GNUR 3530
Corequisites: GNUR 3420
GNUR 3530 - Foundational Concepts of Nursing Practice-Clinical This course is an introduction to nursing as a systematic process with emphasis on the knowledge core to evidence-based professional nursing care, utilizing and attitude of clinical reasoning. Emphasis is on recognizing shared commonalities, yet diverse as to age, gender, religion, race, ethnicity, culture, lifestyle, ocio-economic class, and sexual orientation, on the client’s health care.
Credit Hours: 5
Total Contact Hours: 15
Lab Hours: 15
Lecture Hours: 0
Delivery Method: FACE
Fee Type: Faculty Intensive Fee
Corequisites: GNUR 3416
GNUR 4106 - Introduction to Nursing Informatics This course will explore the core concepts, skills, and technology used in nursing informatics. The student will examine the use of current technology to promote safe, patient centered, quality care in the global healthcare system.
Credit Hours: 1
Total Contact Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 1
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Prerequisites: GNUR 4106
GNUR 4206 - Scholarship for Evidence-based Practice II This course focuses on the asking and answering of clinical nursing questions through the synthesis of current literature and analysis of clinical practice guidelines.
Credit Hours: 2
Total Contact Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 2
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Prerequisites: GNUR 3126
GNUR 4306 - Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family Encompasses concepts related to the safe delivery of quality nursing care to childbearing families. Focuses on application of the nursing process of the childbearing family unit. Special emphasis is placed upon communication within an interdisciplinary team, patient safety including principles of infection control, quality improvement, evidenced based nursing care related to traditional and alternative birth processes, patient centered care with consideration of cultural difference to the childbirth experience and the use of informatics and technology.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 5
Lab Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Delivery Method: FACE
Fee Type: Faculty Intensive Fee
Prerequisites: GNUR 3307 , GNUR 3416 , GNUR 3420 , GNUR 3485 , GNUR 3530
GNUR 4307 - Aspects of Pediatric Nursing This course emphasizes essential nursing concepts of children’s health and illness. The focus is on safe professional practice in pediatric acute care and outpatient settings centering on care appropriate for the child’s age and development. Additionally, students will demonstrate ability to reason clinically/use critical thinking by applying evidence based practice in both simulation and clinical setting.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 5
Lab Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Delivery Method: FACE
Fee Type: Faculty Intensive Fee
Prerequisites: GNUR 3221 , GNUR 3226 , GNUR 3307 , GNUR 3320 , GNUR 3416 , GNUR 3530
GNUR 4308 - Global Health Issues in Nursing In order to provide competent care for diverse populations, it is important for nurses to have an awareness of global health issues. This course will provide an introduction to global health issues affecting nurses. The student will be exposed to a variety of global issues; including infectious diseases, non-infectious diseases, and non-disease related global issues that impact healthcare in developing countries.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4311 - Professional Practice and Role Development Dimensions of Professional Practice and Role Development facilitates the development and implementation of strategies to enable the synthesis of professional development for the nurse. The course enables the student to recognize and understand the critical role that nurses play in health care delivery. Students will analyze principles of professional practice and will explore strategies to model the professional practive role in current clinical situations.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4313 - Financial Management in Nursing *Elective* Financial Management in Nursing explores economic issues relevant to nursing practice and health care. The course uses a systems approach to analyze the financial impact of health care decisions. The course further assesses the financial implication of nursing decisions from a clinical perspective. Topics include a myriad of financial concepts that range from staffing and budgeting to measuring productivity and forcasting costs. The goal of the course is to enable nurses in managerial roles to implement change without negatively affecting patient care outcomes.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online Fee
GNUR 4317 - Community and Population Health This course emphasizes public health and community nursing concepts essential for professional nursing practice. Focus is on the concepts of community health nursing practice, epidemiology and disease transmission, comprehensive assessment of risk factors and health problems, program planning and intervention, environmental health, collaboration with the interdisciplinary team, health promotion and disease prevention.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 5
Lab Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Delivery Method: HYBRID
Fee Type: Hybrid Fee
Prerequisites: GNUR 4306 , GNUR 4307 , GNUR 4410 , GNUR 4498
GNUR 4320 - Professional Role of Leader and Manager This course incorporates the role of the nurse as a leader and manager in nursing. Students will utilize selected theories and concepts to generate knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to the role of leader and manager. The course provides opportunity for the students to explore the role of the nursing profession in a global healthcare environment.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
Prerequisites: GNUR 3320 , GNUR 3227 , GNUR 3331 , GNUR 3420 , GNUR 3484
GNUR 4362 - Health Care for Rural Older Adults *Elective* Focus on important concepts in health and health care among rural elders as a population group. This concept of rurality will be presented not as a dichotomy, but as a continuum, focusing on the special needs of rural elders. Emphasis is on the collaborative role of nurses in assisting elders and families in rural settings to negotiate health care delivery systems, using principles for evaluating, managing, and coordinating care of rural elders.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4363 - Foundations of Holistic Nursing *Elective* Students will explore various perspectives related to health and healing processes, including concepts of self - care, presence, intentionality, and integrative modalities as a basis for holistic nursing practice. Contemporary research supporting evidence based holistic practice is highlighted.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4364 - Informatics in Nursing Practice *Elective* Students will explore the various uses of informatics in nursing practice and the healthcare setting including current technology initiatives, use of informatics in a variety of healthcare settings, decision support systems, and the impact of technology on nurse-patient relationships.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4365 - Spirituality in Health Practice an Evidence Based Practice *Elective* This course is an exploration of spirituality in healthcare. Included in this c course is an overview of different aspects related to spirituality and an exploration into avenues to strengthen the inclusion of spirituality in health care delivery with a focus on the evidence-based practice foundation for these avenues.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4366 - Genomics in Nursing Practice *Elective* This course will increase the ability of the professional nurse to think genetically when approaching a clinical situation or problem that may not appear to be genetic in nature. The course will examine basic mechanisms of inheritance and transmission of chromosomes and genes, understanding of genetic contributions to human diversity, and information about common inherited genetic disorders and conditions.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4367 - Issues in Women’s Health *Elective* This course provides the opportunity to explore women’s health issues and their implications for health care.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4368 - Conducting Life Review with Elderly Clients *Elective* Designed to acquaint students with concepts and processes of conducting life review with elderly clients. Included in this course are two primary goals in conducting life review with elderly clients. The first goal is on the emotional level with the outcome being to decrease anxiety and increase the client’s sense of satisfaction, pride, and accomplishment about their life. The second goal is on a cognitive level with the outcome being to heighten the client’s awareness of thestrengths and resources they have to meet previous life challenges
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4369 - Health Law for the Nurse Leader *Elective* This course will immerse the student in major legal topics that confront nurses in their role as leaders in health care organizations. Students will explore when and how the law impacts the health care arena and the delivery of care.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4373 - Introduction to Evidence This course addresses pathways for engaging with appropriate evidence to advance the practice of nursing. Basic research concepts and evidence-based practice approaches will be used to prepare the students as consumers of evidence in order to ensure that practice is based on validated evidence. This course provides students with a foundation for evidence-based practice in synthesizing the professional role in nursing. The ability to function as competent consumers of evidence in nursing demands an understanding of what is evidence and basic research principles. This course describes various models of inquiry in nursing. Students will engage in discussions, reading, and evaluation of evidence and research reports to advance the practice of nursing.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4374 - Nursing Management and Leadership This course builds on management and leadership concepts essential in professional nursing practice in the 21st century. Management and leadership theories, roles and functions serve as the foundation for the course. Key concepts covered include managing quality using informatics tools and systems, patient safety, staffing, fiscal planning and decision making.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4375 - Information Systems and Quality Management This course is an introduction to information systems and quality processes required to monitor and improve healthcare outcomes related to cost, safety, care, coordination, and quality management. Learning information system and quality management concepts will prepare the student to function as a nursing leader in a variety of healthcare settings. Content will cover strategies to improve communication and manage information using technology to support decision making to improve patient care and delivery systems.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4376 - Population Focused Community Health This course emphasizes population-focused nursing and community-oriented approaches to understanding and addressing public health concerns. The focus is on the concepts of population health assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs to improve community health
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4377 - Risk Analysis and Implications for Practice This course introduces the student to systems analysis as it relates to patient safety and risk reduction. Content will cover the role of the inter-professional healthcare team in identifying potential factors which lead to adverse medication events. Resources at the organizational, federal, state, and private level are reviewed in developing strategies that ensure care for vulnerable populations
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4380 - Nature of Nursing Theory This course is an introduction to the nature of nursing theory. Origins of and strategies for theory development in nursing are examined in terms of importance in guiding the profession as a practice discipline. Nursing theory is analyzed as a foundation for nursing practice aide research.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4381 - Issues and Trends in Nursing This course focuses on current issues and trends in nursing relevant to the professional role on a local, state, national and international level.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4383 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare This course surveys major legal and ethical issues in the inter-professional delivery of healthcare. Study focuses on basic principles and language of law and ethics, and develops an understanding of value formation and its influence on ethical theories. The role of state nursing boards in regulating practice is reviewed along with landmark court cases affecting the role and duties of the nurse.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4388 - Client and Peer Teaching *Elective* Focuses on collaboration between nurse and client/peers. It includes an assessment of learning needs, the implementation of planned learning
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4390 - Baccalaureate Nursing Practice Capstone course which requires students to integrate principles of patient centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence based practice, quality improvement, informatics, and patient safety through discussion, personal reflection, and development of a professional portfolio.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 4410 - Acute Care Nursing Clinical This course provides opportunities for students to synthesize genaralist nursing roles of provider and manager of care in the clinical and simulated acute care setting. Clinical judgment, reasoning and therapeutic nursing skills necessary in the acute care delivery are demonstrated in the application of evidence based nursing care through simulated case studies and weekly clinical experiences.
Credit Hours: 4
Total Contact Hours: 12
Lab Hours: 12
Lecture Hours: 0
Delivery Method: FACE
Fee Type: Faculty Intensive Fee
Prerequisites: GNUR 3227 , GNUR 3320 , GNUR 3331 , GNUR 3420 , GNUR 3485
Corequisites: GNUR 4498
GNUR 4498 - Concepts of Acute Care Nursing Didactic This course is an introduction to nursing as a systematic process with emphasis on the knowledge core to evidence-based professional nursing care, utilizing an attitude of clinical reasoning. Emphasis is on recognizing shared commonalities, yet diverse as to age, gender, religion, race, ethnicity, culture, lifestyle, ocio-economic class, and sexual orientation, on the client’s health care.
Credit Hours: 4
Total Contact Hours: 4
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 4
Delivery Method: FACE
Corequisites: GNUR 4410
GNUR 4620 - Professional Transitions This course incorporates the role of the nurse as a leader and manager in nursing. Students will utilize selected theories and concepts to generate knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to the role of leader and manager. The course provides opportunity for the students to explore the role of the nursing profession in a global healthcare environment.
Credit Hours: 6
Total Contact Hours: 10
Lab Hours: 6
Lecture Hours: 4
Delivery Method: FACE
Fee Type: Faculty Intensive Fee
Prerequisites: GNUR 4206 , GNUR 4306 , GNUR 4307 , GNUR 4410 , GNUR 4498
Corequisites: GNUR 4317
GNUR 5215 - Human Resources Operations for Nurse Leaders This course is designed to provide graduate students with the principles of managing human resources in healthcare organizations. The student will gain effective human resource strategies necessary to support organizational goals.
Credit Hours: 2
Total Contact Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 2
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 5314 - Leadership in Nursing Education I: Best Practices in Teaching & Technology Integration *Elective* This course focuses on the nurse educator role by creating the foundational components of learning principles, pedagogical approaches, teaching strategies and information systems technology
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 5322 - Health Informatics for Nursing Leadership This course will engage the student in the examination of information and technology concepts, theories, and skills necessary to optimally communicate, manage knowledge, minimize error, and support health care decisions. Students will learn to apply information and communication technologies to integrate and coordinate patient care; examine data management systems to improve outcomes of care; and utilize evidence-based care and health education to manage health information. Principles of information and cognitive science will provide the foundation for integrating concepts of healthcare information, health care delivery, decision-support, and the ethical and secure management of information in the advanced practice nursing role.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 5323 - Nursing Leadership and Theory This course engages the student in an examination of leadership concepts, theories, and skills that are critical to high quality, safe patient care. Nursing theory will guide the leader in assessing nursing care for quality and facilitation of safe patient outcomes. Principles of leadership will provide the foundation for integrating concepts of systems thinking, ethical and critical decision-making, communication, collaboration, negotiation, change facilitation and financial management in theadvanced practice nursing role.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 5324 - Population Health Leadership Across the Continuum This course addresses the theoretical basis for population and environmental health, the principles of epidemiology, models/frameworks of health and health management systems and major population health concepts foundational to advanced nursing practice.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 5325 - Health Policy Essentials This course addresses health policy, financing, and advocacy roles implemented by the MSN-prepared nurse, as well as professional issues for MSN prepared nurses. Local, state, and national policies; legal and regulatory processes; and professional nursing issues impacting health care delivery are examined.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 5328 - Organizational Leadership and Theory This course examines the concepts of organizational theory and behavior in healthcare environments. Learners will identify and apply leadership strategies to impact organizational culture and facilitate high reliability in healthcare organizations. Learners will apply quality improvement and patient safety sciences to promote healthcare systems that are safe, timely, effective, equitable, and patient centered.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 5347 - Administrative Role Development The focus of this course is on creation of an effective workplace in which safe patient care can occur. The traditional elements of managing are the avenues through which learners gain insight into the effectiveness and influence of the administrative role.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Other Hours: 1
Lecture Hours: 2
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 5386 - Finance and Budgeting for Nurse Leaders This course is designed to provide graduate students with basic information and skills for developing budgets and managing financial issues in healthcare facilities, clinics, independent practice and nursing departments. The learner will be introduced to labor mix and management, and care models.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 5387 - Nursing Operations This course is designed to expand on fundamental business and financial acumen concepts required for the daily operations of patient care departments. The learner will be introduced to the capital and operating budgetary process and analysis, concepts related to strategic planning, and variance analysis and reporting.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 3
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 5426 - Research and Theory for Nursing Practice This course focuses on developing an understanding of fundamental aspects of research critique and common approaches to design and conduct of research relevant to nursing. While qualitative and quantitative approaches are introduced in this course, the understanding and use of statistics in the context of research and research critique is emphasized. The use of theory while focusing on methods underlying evidence-based approaches to nursing practice will be applied. Selected theories that are relevant to evidence based nursing practice will be critiqued for usefulness and application in an effort to link theory, evidence, and practice. Practice problems which form the basis for examining evidence application in nursing will be discussed.
Credit Hours: 4
Total Contact Hours: 4
Lab Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 4
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distant/Online
GNUR 6010 - Application of Administrative Practice This course provides learners with the opportunity to implement ideas into a practice setting. It is designed to allow learners to use ideas from the literature, their peers, conferences and other approved sources to create an application project designed to change practice from a clinical or administrative perspective.
Credit Hours: 3
Total Contact Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Other Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 0
Delivery Method: ONLINE
Fee Type: Distance/Online
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