Courses

Utilizing a systems approach and a background in basic physical assessment, advanced physical assessment skills are studied. The identification and interpretation of abnormalities in the physical exam are emphasized in depth. The approach to the development of the differential diagnosis is introduced. The goal of this course is to provide the critical thinking necessary for the beginning advanced practice nursing student to analyze history and physical exam data.

This graduate level laboratory course will involve application of advanced health assessment principles and skills for comprehensive examination of adult and older adult clients. Emphasis is placed on physical, psychosocial, and cultural assessments skills that are necessary to develop a comprehensive health assessment. This lab will focus on interviewing and history-taking, advanced physical assessment skills, diagnostic reasoning, and development of a plan of care. The clinical laboratory will emphasize techniques for identifying common normal and abnormal findings and documentation of these findings. Students will engage in actual practice with task trainers, fellow students, and Standardized Patients using simulated patient clinical encounters involving common health problems.

Introduction to Auricular Acupuncture will teach students the practice of inserting needles according to five-needle-protocol, a protocol used to reduce cravings for drugs and alcohol, anxiety, PTSD symptoms, as well as sleep disturbances. As well as needle insertion, students will also learn to place ear seeds often used in this treatment protocol for prolonged effects.  

This course focuses on the continuum of care for breast cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, and management with attention to medically underserved populations who have disproportionately higher  breast cancer morbidity and mortality. The course emphasizes interprofessional learning as medical and nursing students will rotate together through both didactic and clinical experiences. These clinical experiences are precepted by the interprofessional network of breast cancer care providers including, but not limited to, breast cancer care advocates/care coordinators, NPs engaged in breast cancer screening, breast radiologists, NPs and MDs with expertise in oncology, and social workers/psychologists/psychiatrists with expertise in cancer care.  

This advanced level course introduces the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse to palliative care from a historical, programmatic, and global perspective. The course will provide opportunities for the exploration of personal values and beliefs related to palliative care.

This course is designed to present an integrative approach to identifying and managing the symptoms of cancer and cancer treatment through the disease continuum. The course will include a focus on aspects related to physical, psychosocial and spiritual issues that impact the lives of the person/family with cancer. 

This course provides the opportunity to manage the symptoms of cancer and its treatments with expert supervision and collaboration in the clinical setting. Learning is facilitated by expert clinicians in oncology/hospice/home/long term care areas. Evidence based practice will be promoted in issues related to quality of life, identification and prevention of complications of treatment and patient and caregiver stress. 

This advanced level course is designed to prepare Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to offer evidence-based and compassionate palliative care to patients and families throughout the lifespan from birth to end of life and across settings. Attention will be given to health equity.

This advanced level course focuses on issues in the clinical management of palliative care and provides the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse opportunities to integrate population based clinical knowledge, theory and research findings into assessment and management of patients and families across settings. Attention will be given to health equity. 

This advanced level case-based seminar for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse continues to build evidence-based knowledge, providing a context in which to apply techniques of communication, assessment and management of pain and complex symptoms in chronic and life limiting illness that is focused on pediatric, lifespan, or adult/geriatric populations across settings.

This introductory course is designed to prepare graduate nursing and medical students to offer informed and compassionate palliative and end of life care to patients and families across the lifespan in a variety of settings.

This advanced level seminar continues to build an evidence-based discipline by incorporating content of N8755/N8759 into discussion of clinical cases and current research findings on palliative and end of life care. The seminar provides students with a context in which to learn techniques of communication, assessment, and management of pain and symptoms at end of life and palliative care emergencies.

This advanced level clinical experience provides students with the opportunity to integrate clinical knowledge, theory, and research findings into the assessment and treatment of patients and families in need of palliative and end of life care.

Previously 1-3 credits.

This introductory course is designed to prepare nurse practitioner students to offer informed and compassionate palliative and end of life care to pediatric patients and families in a variety of settings. Pediatric palliative care will be explored both as a philosophy and as a system of service provision.

Clinical Seminar in Primary Care Across the Adult Lifespan I is designed to provide the AGNP student an academic environment in which students share their practicum experience and present case studies and journal articles for discussion with their peers. In this scholarly forum, the students are expected to present selected cases from their practicum in an organized format. The students are expected to facilitate a class dialogue and offer appropriate references.

Clinical Seminar in Primary Care Across the Adult Lifespan II is designed to provide the AGNP student an academic environment in which students share their practicum experience and present case studies and journal articles for discussion with their peers. In this scholarly forum, the students are expected to present selected cases from their practicum in an organized format. The students are expected to facilitate a class dialogue and offer appropriate references.

This course is designed to provide the AGNP student an academic environment in which the students share their practicum experience and present case studies for discussion with their peers. In this scholarly forum, the students are expected to present selected cases from their practicum in an organized format. The students are expected to facilitate a class dialogue and offer appropriate references. Incorporated into the seminar is ongoing discussion, review, and assessment of the final project.

The practicum is a clinical field experience designed to provide opportunity for students to acquire skills in assessment, decision making and management of care for adults with a variety of episodic and long-term health problems. The roles of the Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner are applied in clinical settings that include ambulatory care facilities, community health centers, diagnostic and screening centers, and acute care settings.

This course provides a systematic overview of a comprehensive interdisciplinary geriatric assessment. This course highlights the unique physical and psychosocial issues that impact the older adult. Emphasis is placed on functional assessment and the holistic approach to providing care to older adults.

A triad model for comprehensive learning is utilized within the Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner program, consisting of a didactic component, clinical practicum component, and a practicum seminar component. Diagnosis and Management in Primary Care Across the Adult Lifespan I, II, and III consists of the didactic portion of this triad, where the student will grow longitudinally by increasing their synthesis and depth of knowledge across three semesters. Using a systems approach, this course will emphasize the importance of current health promotion, disease prevention, and screening guidelines, and will extensively study the differential diagnosis and comprehensive healthcare management of integrated physical and mental health problems as they affect individuals across the adult lifespan. For each physical system studied, the role of the Advanced Practice Nurse (APN), evaluation techniques (including recommended tests of choice and screening tools), diagnostic findings (for prevention, as well as diagnosis and management), and multi-modal management tools specific to adolescents (as defined by the state board of nursing), young adults, adults, and geriatric populations will be highlighted. Emphasis will be placed on the age-specific biopsychosocial (including cultural and ethnic competencies) variables influencing those health problems and behaviors, and barriers to health promotion and disease prevention, which are most likely to present, and most amenable to management in a primary care setting.

The clinical practicum   is designed to develop clinical proficiency of the adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner student.    The clinical practicum is designed to prepare the students to provide primary health care focusing on health maintenance.

This course focuses on the development of a fundamental knowledge base for the assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients presenting for sexual and reproductive healthcare in primary care settings. Topics include the most common sexual and reproductive health maintenance issues and challenges across the life cycle. This course include an overview of deviations from sexual and reproductive well-being that are within the scope of practice of the advanced practice nurse practitioner and identifies conditions that require collaborative management and/or referral. A simulation lab session concurrent to the course enhances and grounds the didactic experience.

This clinical practicum builds upon the principles is designed to develop clinical proficiency of the adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner student. The practicum is a clinical field experience designed to provide opportunity for students to acquire skills in assessment, decision-making and management of care for adults with a variety of episodic and long-term health problems.

This clinical practicum builds upon the principles is designed to develop clinical proficiency of the adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner student. The practicum is a clinical field experience designed to provide opportunity for students to acquire skills in assessment, decision-making and management of care for adults with a variety of episodic and long-term health problems.

This course focuses on the essential technology and procedures utilized in the management of the critically ill that is inherent to the role of this nurse practitioner. During laboratory/clinical experiences psychomotor skills and the use of advanced technologies for the nurse practitioner will be developed along with the skill of oral/written presentation of select patients.

Individualized, guided learning experiences at the graduate level in a selected area of concentration. The area of concentration selected should reflect both the role of the clinical specialist / nurse practitioner and the student’s specific interests. Proposed work must be outlined prior to registration and agreed upon by both faculty and student. A project report is required.

The student is introduced to the signs, symptoms and DSM-5 classification of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. Special emphasis is placed upon the ability of the student to conduct and record a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation to American Psychiatric Association (APA) standards in conjunction with instruction provided in the clinical practicum.

This practicum is designed to provide an opportunity for students to learn how to interview psychiatric patients in order to formulate and record a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation.