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Course Descriptions

 

Generic Nursing
  

  • MSNP 535 - Advanced Health Assessment (3)

    Prerequisites: RSCH 512 , MSNG 543  
    This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to complete a comprehensive physical assessment across the lifespan. Students will apply didactic information in an online, interactive format to gain a thorough knowledge of the physical assessment experience. Online simulation, high and low-fidelity simulators, and standardized patients will be used. Diagnostic reasoning, differential diagnosis, and a problem-based approach will be used to enhance expertise in conducting physical assessment of patients. All students are required to complete 5 days of Intensives and 2 days of check offs, as explained in the MSN Student Handbook Supplement.
  

  • MSNP 550 - Advanced Pathophysiology (3)

    Prerequisites: RSCH 512 , MSNG 543  
    This course focuses on recognizing complex physiologic changes that occur as a result of disease processes and altered functions of the body systems. Students will focus on alterations, mechanisms involved, manifestations as signs, symptoms, and physical findings. Laboratory findings and differential diagnosis are investigated by students in order to link microbiology, chemistry, anatomy, and biochemistry into clinical practice.
  

  • MSNP 576 - Primary Care of Women and Children (3)

    Prerequisites: RSCH 512, MSNG 543 
    This course addresses acute, chronic, and behavioral health conditions of women, infants, children, and adolescents. It will prepare students to assume professional, advanced-practice nurse roles, and responsibilities.  Population health care will be a focal aspect of concepts taught in the course. Students are expected to complete three hundred (300) clinical hours split into the three population focuses. One hundred and twenty-five (125) clinical hours in Women’s Health, fifty (50) clinical hours in Obstetrics, and one hundred and twenty-five (125) clinical hours in Infant and Child Health (ages 1 month - adolescence).

    Students will apply evidence-based practice to address the needs of the female patient, gender specific care, and behavioral health issues or concerns. This includes the well-woman, preventive care practice, common gynecological problems, and reproduction health. Assessment, diagnosis, and health management of the woman will encompass CREATION Health principles. Health management includes the use of genomic, socio-cultural, behavioral, spiritual, and ethical principles in caring for the pre-pubescence, pre, peri, and post- menopausal patients.

    Infant, child, and adolescent health will address growth, development, behavioral health, and anticipatory guidance for wellness, guided by CREATION Health principles. The course incorporates further assessment, diagnosis, and management of acute, chronic, and behavioral health conditions related to evidence-based practice. It includes the developmental transitions within a family context related to patients and population health.

  

  • MSNP 577 - Primary Care of the Adult (3)

    Prerequisites: RSCH 512, MSNG 543 
    This course emphasizes advanced practice nursing in the diagnosis and management of early, middle, and gerontological adults related to population health. It includes physiological, pathological, psychosocial, and spiritual changes relative to health maintenance, management of acute and chronic illnesses, and life transitions guided by CREATION Health principles. Students will develop advanced clinical skills and apply evidence-based practice in health promotion and risk reduction strategies. Students are expected to complete three hundred (300) clinical hours.

Pharmacy
  

  • MSNP 545 - Advanced Pharmacology (4)

    Prerequisites: RSCH 512 ,  MSNG 543  
    This course focuses on advanced pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutic principles. Skills to safely prescribe medications across the life span related to patients and population health will be emphasized. Drug formularies and guidelines will be addressed. Students will investigate efficacy and use of herbal remedies, as well as potential interactions with prescribed medications across the lifespan. Students will learn regulatory laws associated with drug administration including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and State Boards of Nursing for prescription writing.