This course introduces cultural congruence across the lifespan. Transcultural nursing concepts will be examined, as well as theories & practices in relationship to human caring. Application and analysis of health care practices within selected cultural contexts are explored.

Prerequisites: BIOL 1141 and BIOL 1162. This course focuses on the normal processes and mechanisms operating within the human body. Explores the nature of disease, its causes and the bodily changes that accompany. The course includes general principles of disease, diseases specific to internal organs, and the clinical implications.

This course is an in-depth independent study of selected topics in nursing under the guidance of a specific instructor. No more than six hours may be taken under this option.

Prerequisite: Admission to the College of Nursing's RN to BSN Program. This course prepares nurses to provide evidence-based nursing care to patients among the rapid advances in the science and technology of healthcare. This course provides a basic understanding of how evidence is developed, including the research process, clinical judgment, interprofessional perspectives, and patient preference as applied to nursing practice. Students will learn a systematic method to evaluate and apply research findings and other evidence in designing and implementing nursing care that is multidimensional, high quality, and cost-effective.

Prerequisites: Admission to the College of Nursing's RN to BSN Program. This course prepares the nurse to coordinate and manage client care in diverse health care settings. The use of information systems and data to guide management decisions will be emphasized. Leadership and management concepts, issues, and functions as applied to the role of the professional nurse in delivering culturally competent, safe, and quality care will be examined.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3065, NURSE 3075, NURSE 4015, NURSE 4035, NURSE 4045. This course is a leadership practicum experience which reflects synthesis of cognitive and affective skills acquired in the Accelerated BSN program. Areas of study are selected from across the lifespan, including diverse populations in a variety of healthcare systems. Didactic and clinical components are included.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3065, NURSE 3075, NURSE 4015, NURSE 4035, NURSE 4045. This course is a synthesis of community and public health nursing that prepares students to apply, promote, and protect the health of patients, families, communities, and populations. Global perspectives on health equity, policy, and diversity are explored. Didactic and clinical components are included.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Accelerated BSN Program. This course is designed to provide a foundational theoretical review of evidence-based practice in the nursing profession. Students synthesize knowledge and skill from the natural and behavioral sciences, humanities, and nursing in order to understand the research process and its relevance in guiding nursing practice and improving patient care. Emphasis is placed on identifying and using research evidence in clinical decision making.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3070. Provides experiences in preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative settings. Includes a clinical component.

Prerequisite: Senior level status; GPA 3.0 (4.0 scale). This course provides the opportunity to apply theoretical and conceptual knowledge and skills in a structured clinical environment under the guidance of a mentor.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3060, NURSE 3070. This course focuses on the nursing care of terminally ill patients and their families. Topics explored will include the impact of personal values and beliefs about death, physiology of end stage disease processes, symptom assessment and management, psychosocial and spiritual support, consideration in special patient populations, societal issues and trends in end of life care, ethical considerations in caring for the dying patient, grief and bereavement processes, and the role nursing in end of life care across settings.

Prerequisites: NURSE 6518, NURSE 6520, NURSE 6524. This course provides a foundation for students to assume advanced practice nursing roles in health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, and management of psychiatric health and mental illness across the lifespan and within the family context. A foundation for an integrative practice, including psychiatric interviewing, psychotherapy, neurobiology, and psychopharmacology for the management of psychiatric conditions will be developed.

Prerequisites: NURSE 6518, NURSE 6520, NURSE 6524. This course provides a foundation for students to assume an advanced practice nursing role in the care of adolescent and geriatric populations. Therapeutic strategies to address adolescent and geriatric health promotion, preventative care and the most common health conditions managed in these populations in primary care practice will be developed.

Prerequisites: NURSE 6518, NURSE 6520, NURSE 6524. This course provides a foundation for students to assume advanced practice nursing roles in health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis and management of health and illness in newborn, infant, child and adolescent populations within the family context. Therapeutic strategies about pediatric preventive care, behavioral health, common pediatric office-based procedures, pediatric prescribing practices, and the most common health problems managed in pediatric primary care will be developed.

Prerequisites: NURSE 6518, NURSE 6520, NURSE 6524. This course provides a foundation for students to assume an advanced practice nursing role in health promotion, disease prevention, health maintenance, and the diagnosis and management of common conditions affecting women across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on clinical assessment and decision making related to primary care management of reproductive growth and development, common acute and chronic primary health conditions, and behavioral health in gender-related populations.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Explore special topics for the advanced practice nurse in the areas of research, theory, education and administration. No more than three hours shall be applied toward the degree. This course is for graduate MSN or PhD levels.

Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor and graduate standing. This clinical course is designed to provide a theoretical and practical base for leadership development in population health and community health and organizational management. Emphasis is placed on clinical assessment and decision-making in the populations and community-level interventions to change health outcomes. The student is expected to clinically apply the concepts and theories discussed in class that address health disparities in underserved populations, infectious diseases, and community-level responses to chronic conditions. Clinical experiences are designed to enhance assessment and technical skills.

Prerequisites: NURSE 6738, NURSE 6740, NURSE 6742, NURSE 6744 or NURSE 6747. This clinical course provides precepted experiences that allow students to continue to develop the nurse practitioner role and clinical competencies within their specific emphasis area. Students integrate theory and clinical competencies to provide preventative care, health promotion, health education and evidence-based care for acute, chronic and mental health conditions for individuals and families.

Prerequisites: NURSE 6954. This clinical course provides a continuation of precepted experiences that allow students to develop the nurse practitioner role and clinical competencies within their specific emphasis area. Students integrate theory and clinical competencies to provide preventative care, health promotion, health education and evidence-based care for acute, chronic and mental health conditions for individuals and families.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course examines the state of clinical inquiry and the implementation of evidence into practice. The relationship between clinical questions and the critical appraisal and synthesis of research and literature is explored. Models for implementing and sustaining change based on the evidence are examined.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course explores various leadership theories, models, and issues that facilitate effective planning, implementation, and evaluation of healthcare initiatives within select healthcare systems. A course focus will be on the use of advanced communication skills and interprofessional collaboration to achieve optimal health outcomes and sustain positive change initiatives.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course covers epidemiology, logistic modeling, and public health surveillance in primary healthcare. It provides an introduction into investigation of outbreaks. The course will enable the healthcare professional to develop a knowledge base to address issues of health and illness of a population.

Prerequisites: Consent of the Program Director. This course explores information systems and computer technologies that can improve the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations by optimizing information management and communication. Focus areas include the electronic medical record, technologies to improve patient safety, standards for privacy and security, tele-health systems to improve healthcare access to underserved populations, use of web-enhanced technologies for research translation, and strategies to provide data for decision making and evidence-based databases. Emphasis is placed on developing competence in technology use for the purpose of program evaluation, establishing healthcare quality, and improving healthcare delivery to diverse populations in complex healthcare settings.

Prerequisites: NURSE 7291. This course provides opportunities to develop strategies to create change in a targeted population and complex healthcare environments. Students will implement evidence-based, clinical scholarship projects to improve health outcomes.

Prerequisites: NURSE 7292. This course provides opportunities for the development of practice expertise to create change in a targeted population and complex healthcare environment. Students will complete their clinical scholarship project and make recommendations for future practice.

Prerequisite: All required course work; successful completion of comprehensive examination. Investigation of an advanced nature culminating in successful defense of dissertation. Continuous registration is required.

Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor and graduate standing. Explore special topics related to PhD dissertation. This course can be a cognate, elective, or for students who are enrolling in one of the shared courses available through the UM-funded CARMA initiative (Collaborations for Advanced Research Methods and Analysis).

Prerequisites: Admission to the College of Nursing PhD Program. This course focuses on theoretical foundations of measurement, item construction, instrument design, item analysis, validity and reliability assessment. Basic methodologies and techniques for constructing, testing, and evaluating instruments will be discussed. This course is for students who are enrolling in one of the shared courses available through the UM-funded CARMA initiative (Collaborations for Advanced Research Methods and Analysis).

Prerequisites: Admission to the College of Nursing PhD Program. This course will focus on the use of participatory approaches for the design of health and health-system interventions. This course is for students who are enrolling in one of the shared courses available through the UM-funded CARMA initiative (Collaborations for Advanced Research Methods and Analysis).