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MSN Course Descriptions
Core Courses to be Taken by all MSN Students (15 credits)
NUR 501 Theoretical Foundations Guiding Nursing Practice (3 credits)
The Theoretical Foundations Guiding Nursing Practice course focuses on helping advanced practice nurses formulate and apply a wide range of nursing and scientific theories to practice. Students critique and apply theories from nursing and related sciences, and relate theory to research and patient-centered outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.
NUR 510 Population-focused Community & Global Health Issues (3 credits)
This course focuses on global health issues and need for culturally sensitive, culturally congruent care of diverse minority and high-risk vulnerable populations at individual and societal levels. Emphasis is on population-focused issues pertaining to health and illness, environmental impacts on health and illness, level of prevention, and impacts of social, economic, and political factors on health status across the lifespan.
NUR 600 Advanced Nursing Research (3 credits)
The Advanced Nursing Research course provides masters level nurses principles and processes of nursing research leading to research utilization. The course focuses on assessing current and relevant research for delineating issues, translating research, competencies in analysis and evaluation of relevant research, practice innovations and evidence-based practice. (Prerequisites: Statistics)
NUR 605 Advanced Practice Leadership & Role Development (3 credits)
The Advanced Practice Leadership & Role Development course focuses on role transition to advanced practice nurse. The course provides content on the history and present state of the nursing profession, advanced practice nurse roles, as well as requirements and regulations for advanced practice roles.
NUR 615 Health Care Delivery Systems: Past, Present, & Future (3 credits)
The Health Care Delivery Systems: Past, Present, & Future focuses on developing understanding of policy, organizational design, and financing of health care services. There is emphasis on health care delivery and reimbursement systems and impacts on patient outcomes for individual, families, and communities locally, nationally, and internationally. Course content focuses on understanding the history and overview of health care delivery in the United States, integrated systems of health care, continuum of care, levels of reimbursement, community health care systems, health care financing, health care delivery resources, and roles of Advanced practice nurses in the health care delivery system as well as reimbursement for advanced practice nursing services.
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Specialty Courses to be taken in MSN Nursing Education Track (17 credits)
NUR 631 Teaching Strategies for Nurse Educators (3 credits)
The Teaching Strategies for Nurse Educators prepares nurse educators for a variety of roles impacting patient outcomes by developing knowledge and skill sets in pedagogy, teaching-learning theories, testing and measurement, educator roles, application of educational research, educational technologies, and learner-centered education.
NUR 641 Technology & Health Care Informatics in Nursing Education (3 credits)
The Technology & Health Care Informatics in Nursing course focuses on educational and patient care technologies impacting learner outcomes in a variety of health care delivery environments. There is emphasis in on-line and non traditional educational settings, teaching for multi lingual audiences, and literacy in education.
NUR 651 Nurse Educator Roles (3 credits)
The Nurse Educator Roles course focuses on the multiple roles and diverse practice environments for nurse educators. The course specifically focuses on roles sets and competencies in addition to certification requirements and preparation.
NUR 661 Curriculum Development and Evaluation (3 credits)
The Curriculum Development and Evaluation course focuses on curriculum design and implementation as well as valid and reliable methodologies for learner measurement and outcomes. Issues to be addressed include accreditation, program, course, and class objectives, engaging learners in learner-centered course design, integrating best practice into the classroom, and peer-evaluation.
NUR 699 Capstone Practicum with Nurse Mentor (3 credits)
Nursing 699 is designed as a capstone course helping the nurse educator student put into practice what has been learned in the MSN in Nursing Education Track. Students select a precepted experience and work with a qualified preceptor in an area in which the student plans to pursue opportunities upon completion of the MSN. A scholarly publishable paper is expected as part of the experience.
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Specialty Courses to be Taken in MSN Nursing Leadership/Management Track (17 credits)
NUR 631 Health Care Economics (3 credits)
The Health Care Economics course focuses on examination and understanding of health care financing and reimbursement concepts preparing a world-ready nurse leader to function in a variety of health care delivery settings. Course content focuses on concepts of budget and management, leadership management brokering for scare health care resources, influencing policy makers, decision-making and critical thinking, and linking patient care outcomes to resource management.
NUR 641 Human Resource Concepts for Nursing Leaders (3 credits)
The Human Resource Concepts for Nursing Leaders course focuses on those concepts regarding legal, ethical, social, and political concepts of working in organizations.
Course content focuses on hiring practices, managing and dealing with challenging issues in health care settings, employee issues, assessing self in terms of leadership and management principles, support in the role of nurse leader, and problem solving.
NUR 651 Leadership for Change in Health Care Organizations (3 credits)
The Leadership for Change in Health Care Organizations focuses on the needs of health care leaders to take health care delivery into the future through creative, innovative design initiatives focusing on a consumer-driven health care delivery system. Content includes variables impacting health care delivery systems, reimbursement and funding for design change, managing competition, creating the health care delivery system of the future, and managing human and financial resources in years to come.
NUR 661 Leadership Seminar (3 credits)
The Leadership Seminar focuses on relevant and timely health care leadership issues confronting today’s health care leaders. Topics will include how to become a better leader, getting support in a leadership role, mentoring others, being a role model, identifying resources for success in a leadership role.
NUR 700 Capstone Practicum with Nurse Mentor (5 credits)
Nursing 700 is designed as a capstone course helping the nurse leader student put into practice what has been learned in the MSN in Nursing Leadership/Management Track. Students select a precepted experience and work with a qualified preceptor in an area in which the student plans to pursue opportunities upon completion of the MSN. A scholarly publishable paper is expected as part of the experience.
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