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.

This course focuses on the development of communication skills utilized in professional nursing. The individual's relationship with self, individuals, communities, and populations are discussed. Communication and collaboration concepts in nursing are introduced to develop effective human caring relationships with diverse populations.

This course examines nutritional needs across the illness and wellness continuum with emphasis on nutritional principles related to health promotion and protection. Content includes assimilation, digestion and absorption of nutrients, and cultural and economic influences on dietary practices across the lifespan.

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.

Prerequisites: Admission to nursing clinical major. This course focuses on the role of the nurse in promoting health and reducing risk behaviors of individuals and families across the lifespan. Concepts of nutrition, physical activity, coping and stress management skills, social determinants of health, and health disparities will be examined with an emphasis on the impact of genetics, values, lifestyles and cultural influences. Patient education for health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention across the lifespan will be explored.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Accelerated BSN program. This course introduces students to the role of the professional nurse. Health promotion and disease prevention across the life span are examined. Ethics, legal standards, and healthcare policy concepts are also explored.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Accelerated BSN program. Introduction to the structure of the discipline of nursing, selected theoretical and conceptual models, and their application to nursing process, clinical reasoning, and education as a foundation for socialization into professional nursing practice. Includes didactic, laboratory, and clinical components.

Prerequisites: Admission to nursing clinical major. Introduces evidence-based nursing concepts and skills that create the framework for professional nursing practice. Emphasis is placed on fundamental practice concepts including nursing process, clinical decision making, basic physiological and psychosocial health care needs, holistic and culturally congruent care, and the delivery of safe, high quality nursing care across the health-wellness continuum. Students learn and practice skills in a lab setting with the application of acquired skills in a clinical and/or community setting.

Prerequisites: Admission to nursing clinical major. This course integrates concepts related to theoretical knowledge and interpersonal skills in the assessment of clients, focusing on differentiating normal from abnormal findings. It emphasizes the use of problem solving, critical thinking, and cultural competency in identifying and documenting multidimensional health variations across the lifespan. The course includes a classroom component and laboratory experiences, including practice of psychomotor skills.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Accelerated BSN Program. Health promotion, client education, and physical assessment skills across the lifespan are developed using the nursing process framework. Didactic and laboratory components are included.

Prerequisites: Admission to nursing clinical major. This course focuses on utilizing evidence-based practice to promote health and wellness, illness, and prevent injury among individuals, families, communities, and populations. Emphasis is placed on education, collaboration, utilizing evidence in practice for quality improvement, and resource utilization. This course builds on content presented in previous coursework and increases the complexity of students' mastery of focus concepts.

Prerequisites: Admission to nursing clinical major. Building upon knowledge of illness and wellness concepts developed in previous coursework, students will learn to apply this knowledge to the pharmacotherapeutic component of caring for patients across the lifespan.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3005, NURSE 3015. This course covers concepts and principles of pharmacology across the lifespan with an emphasis on pharmacotherapeutics and an evidence-based, comprehensive approach to the clinical application of drug therapy. Cultural considerations, individual needs, and patient education related to pharmacology are examined.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3000, NURSE 3010, NURSE 3020, and NURSE 3030. This course focuses on mental health and illness across the lifespan for individuals experiencing emotional distress, crisis, and severe, persistent mental illness. Students will increase basic skills in interpersonal communication, decision-making, and professional behavior as they utilize theory concepts and research from nursing, psychology, pharmacology, and other disciplines in the provision of care to individuals, families, groups, and vulnerable populations. The course includes basic theory and clinical experiences in hospital and community settings. Students will complete 90 clinical hours.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3005, NURSE 3015, NURSE 3035. This course covers nursing care of adult and elder patients including healthy aging and maintenance of functional capacity. Its content addresses common physiologic and social changes, challenges, and adaptations affecting adult and elder populations. Strategies for health promotion and disease management are addressed in the care of adult and elder patients experiencing fluid and electrolyte imbalances, cardiovascular, integumentary, immunologic, pulmonary, and hematologic alterations. Pathophysiologic processes of organ systems are explored. Didactic and clinical components are included.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3000, NURSE 3010, NURSE 3020 and NURSE 3030. This course focuses on the nursing care of the adult patient experiencing selected pathophysiological processes affecting body regulatory mechanisms. These mechanisms are related to multiple concepts across the illness and wellness continuum. Emphasis is placed on health restoration, maintenance and support of chronic illness as well as the continued development of critical thinking processes, and evidence-based nursing practice. This course includes lecture and active learning within the classroom, as well as a clinical component. Students will complete 90 clinical hours.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in any of the following courses: NURSE 3000, NURSE 3010, NURSE 3020, NURSE 3030, NURSE 3040, NURSE 3050, NURSE 3060, NURSE 3070, NURSE 4010, NURSE 4020, NURSE 4025, NURSE 4030, NURSE 4050, NURSE 4060, NURSE 4065. This course includes a variety of student success strategies, initiatives, and services to enhance the nursing student experience and foster academic achievement.

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 provides an overview of the expanded expectations of the baccalaureate-prepared nurse in today's changing healthcare climate. The role of the baccalaureate prepared nurse in influencing healthcare delivery, healthcare systems, and health outcomes of individuals, families, and communities will be explored.

Prerequisites: Admission to the College of Nursing's RN to BSN Program. This course provides the opportunity to examine evidence-based practice nursing interventions, select theories, models, assessment strategies, and tools that can be used to promote health for populations. The roles and responsibilities of the professional nurse in population-based health systems will be explored.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3050 and NURSE 3070. This course focuses on the application of nursing care of the adult patient experiencing selected pathophysiological processes affecting body regulatory mechanisms across the illness and wellness continuum. Emphasis is placed on health restoration, maintenance and support of acute illness as well as the continued development of the nurse-client relationship, critical thinking processes, research-based nursing practice and use of technology. A focus on care collaboration, communication, quality of care, health care ethics and legal implications is provided. This course includes lecture and active learning, in addition to a clinical portion. Completion of 90 clinical hours.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3000, NURSE 3010, NURSE 3020, NURSE 3030, and NURSE 3050. This course applies health and illness continuum concepts related to the care of the woman, gravid mother, newborn, and growing family. This course builds on knowledge developed in previous coursework. Concurrent enrollment in NURSE 4030 is required.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3000, NURSE 3010, NURSE 3020, NURSE 3030, and NURSE 3050. This course focuses on the pediatric health and illness continuum with an emphasis on family dynamics, growth and development, and communication with children and their families. Nursing concepts include safety, community, cultural congruence, education, collaboration, environmental health, and ethics. Concurrent enrollment in NURSE 4020 is required.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3070, NURSE 4010, NURSE 4020, and NURSE 4030. This course includes a variety of experiences to prepare the student to assess the health care needs in diverse community settings and develop interventions to meet those needs. Student will complete 90 clinical hours. Concurrent enrollment in NURSE 4060 and NURSE 4065 is required.

Prerequisites: NURSE 3070, NURSE 4010, NURSE 4020, and NURSE 4030. This course will focus on the synthesis of previous nursing concepts and general education courses with the goal of preparing the student for entry into professional nursing practice. Areas of study are selected from across the lifespan, including diverse populations in a variety of healthcare systems. This course builds upon knowledge developed in previous coursework. Concurrent enrollment in NURSE 4050 and NURSE 4065 is required.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in NURSE 4050 and NURSE 4060. This clinical course includes a variety of experiences to prepare the student nurse to lead, coordinate, and manage client care in diverse health care settings. This course includes evidence-based strategies. Areas of practice are selected from across the lifespan, including diverse populations in a variety of health care systems. Students will complete 180 clinical hours. Concurrent enrollment in NURSE 4050 and NURSE 4060 is required.

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: Admission to the College of Nursing's RN to BSN program. This course provides an introduction to the impact of values and ethical issues on professional nursing practice and population health. Emphasis is on values clarification, ethical theories and principles, ethical decision-making, and professional ethical standards. Ethical issues affecting nursing practice and the delivery of care will be explored.

Prerequisites: Admission to the College of Nursing's RN to BSN Program. This course familiarizes the professional nurse with health care policy and how it impacts the delivery of health care. The role of the nurse in influencing health outcomes and improving health care for populations through the policy process will be explored.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course introduces the historical development, current structure, and projected transformation of the U.S. healthcare system and provides the student with an understanding of the complex nature of the healthcare sector.

Prerequisites: Consent of Program Director. This course provides opportunities to examine the processes and evaluation components of evidence-based practice, including the identification of significant clinical problems, evaluation of evidence underlying competing interventions, effectiveness of interventions, and implementation and evaluation of health promotion and therapeutic interventions that improve the quality of care or health outcomes for individuals, groups, and populations. Students will have opportunities to develop skills needed to critically analyze scientific literature foundational to implementing evidence-based practice projects.

Prerequisites: Consent of Program Director. This course prepares the student to interpret changes in physiology that result in symptoms indicative of illness by a systematic examination of disease processes. The graduate student will compare and contrast differential diagnosis within physiological systems of sub-cellular and cellular origin, biochemical, and anatomical changes across the life span.

Prerequisites: Consent of Program Director. This course provides an introduction to the interpretation and appropriate use of diagnostic measures for advanced practice nurses in primary care settings. Special attention is paid to laboratory, radiographic and diagnostic testing. In addition, clinical opportunities will be provided to gain clinical interventional skills for advanced practice nursing.

Prerequisites: NURSE 6721. This course develops the advanced practice nursing role in caring for individuals with a mental health disorder, across the lifespan and within the family context. Strategies for the assessment, diagnosis and holistic management of common mental health disorders will be developed.

Prerequisites: NURSE 6722 or NURSE 6723. This course prepares students to assume an advanced practice nursing role when caring for adults across the lifespan within a family context. Strategies for the assessment, diagnosis, and holistic management of common acute, chronic, and behavioral health conditions addressed in a primary care setting for adults will be developed.

Prerequisites: NURSE 6723. This course prepares students for the advanced practice nursing role when caring for infants, children, and the adolescent populations within the family context. Strategies for the assessment, diagnosis and holistic management of common episodic complaints and chronic condition management in the pediatric primary and acute care settings will be developed.

Prerequisites: NURSE 6724. This course prepares students to assume roles in the advanced nursing care of women considering related gender issues across the lifespan with an emphasis on common acute and chronic gynecologic conditions. Strategies for the diagnosis and holistic management of common acute and chronic gynecologic health problems in gender-related populations will be developed.

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 provides continued 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, health systems leadership, policy and evidence-based care populations.

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: Consent of Program Director. This course provides a foundational understanding of the use of biostatics in conducting research. Types of data, data description, logic of sampling and test statistics, hypothesis testing, type 1 and type 2 errors, covariates and confounding variables, and clinical versus statistical significance are included. Opportunities will be provided to gain skills conducting statistical analysis using SPSS, interpreting the results of analytic processes, and applying the results to common health and illness examples encountered in research publications.

Prerequisites: NURSE 7211 or permission of the instructor. This course emphasizes applications of inferential statistics including analysis of variance, simple and multiple linear and logistic regression models, tests of mediation and moderation, and repeated measures and an introduction to longitudinal analyses. The analytic methods and applications will be framed within the health science research field with emphases placed on designing and conducting studies and appropriate analyses using the techniques described above.

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: 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 7215. This course provides opportunities for development of practice expertise into a systems-level approach to create change in a targeted population within a healthcare or related environment. Students will develop their clinical scholarship project proposal.

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: Admission to doctoral study in nursing. This course addresses the role of the PhD-prepared nurse as scientist, leader, academician, and policy maker. Students will analyze strategies for lifelong learning and development as nurse scientists and will explore avenues for building their programs of scholarship, funding opportunities, and contributing to nursing science in policy and clinical practice. Students will examine ways to collaborate effectively in order to improve health care and health outcomes.

Prerequisite: Admission to PhD Program. This course focuses on the discipline of nursing, including the evolution of the state of scientific inquiry and knowledge development in nursing. The course includes the aims of nursing science, the nature of nursing knowledge and scientific theories, and a discussion of relationships among theory, research, method, and practice. Students engage in constructive dialogue as they begin to conceptualize nursing phenomena in their area of interest.

Prerequisite: Admission to the PhD program. This course focuses on development of the research plan including issues in sampling, design, and implementation nursing research. Students will evaluate research methods to answer research questions in their area of interest. Content includes design and analysis issues affecting validity, examination of measurement techniques for assessing validity, reliability, structure of data collection instruments, and criteria for instrument selection. A research proposal will be prepared.

Prerequisite: Admission to PhD program. This course focuses on a systematic study of contemporary nursing science and related theories in knowledge development, and the application of theory construction and validation strategies to specific nursing phenomena of interest. Students create and critically examine theoretical frameworks and models, with emphasis placed on constructing and testing theoretical statements.

Prerequisites: NURSE 7488 or consent of the instructor. This course is designed to engage nurse researchers in the applied collection and analysis of qualitative data and the dissemination of qualitative findings. This course explores congruent systematic analyses/interpretations based upon a variety of philosophical and/or theoretical stances, which could include phenomenology, hermeneutics, ethnography, grounded theory, case study, participatory action research, critical theory or other post-colonial and feminist approaches, textual analysis, aesthetic inquiry and others. Dissemination of findings will be emphasized as well as issues related to data management, rigor, and funding of qualitative proposals. Contemporary approaches to multiple methodology studies and innovative designs will be addressed. Students will be encouraged to practically engage in a methodology of choice in depth.

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).